Meituan 2022 financial report: annual revenue 220 billion yuan, an increase of 23%

On March 24, Meituan released the fourth quarter and full year results of 2022. The company’s various businesses continued to achieve steady growth, with annual revenue of 220 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), an increase of 23% year-on-year, and adjusted net profit of 2.80 billion yuan.

This year, Meituan deepened its "retail + technology" strategy and continued to increase investment in scientific research in key areas. The annual R & D expenditure increased by 24% year-on-year to 20.70 billion yuan, a record high.

At the same time, Meituan’s annual instant delivery orders increased by 14% year-on-year to 17.70 billion orders, of which the peak daily order volume of catering takeaway orders exceeded 60 million orders. The stickiness between users and the platform further increased, and the average annual transaction number of users reached 40.8, an increase of 14% year-on-year.

"In 2022, we will continue to provide hundreds of millions of consumers with assured goods and convenient services, and help millions of merchants use digital means to expand their online operations, which will drive more consumption and create more jobs," said Wang Xing, CEO of Meituan. "In the process of promoting the digital upgrading of life services and retail industries through technological innovation, we will continue to pay attention to the common interests and long-term development of platform participants such as merchants and riders, firmly fulfill platform responsibilities, increase investment in science and technology, continue to help the real economy, and make more contributions to the high-quality growth of China’s economy."

Enabling entities and core local businesses to thrive

As a technology retail enterprise, Meituan is continuing to leverage the advantages of rich application scenarios to fully meet user consumption needs through instant retail and high-quality online and offline supply. In 2022, Meituan’s core local business operating profit reached 29.50 billion yuan, an increase of 57% year-on-year.

Among them, the takeaway business insists on pursuing high-quality development, and consumers’ user stickiness has continued to increase in the past few quarters. Driven by this, the peak daily order volume of Meituan catering takeaway in 2022 exceeded 60 million orders.

The instant retail format using digital technology has further stimulated the potential of local consumption. In addition to food and beverage takeaway, the demand for instant retail such as medicines, flowers, daily groceries, branded cosmetics and mobile phones has grown rapidly. In the fourth quarter, the peak daily order volume of Meituan flash sale exceeded 11 million. Instant retail has also driven more local entities to embrace digital business methods. In 2022, there were nearly 300,000 convenience stores and small supermarkets related to instant retail on the Meituan platform, more than twice the number in 2019. The sales volume of merchants increased by more than 400% compared with 2019, and the variety of goods was three times that of 2019.

In terms of store-to-store business, Meituan has a rich and diverse range of life service categories and product matrices, as well as a strong consumer mind. To further stimulate the vitality of local merchants, Meituan has specially launched measures such as merchant traffic support and joint marketing programs, such as providing tailor-made tools for "time-honored" merchants to help them expand customer acquisition channels. In 2022, Meituan’s annual active merchants in stores maintained healthy growth, of which small store merchants increased by nearly 500,000 compared with 2021.

Meituan also gave full play to its supply-side advantages, launching a series of themed activities around key consumption nodes such as New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, and Spring Festival, to help local catering entities produce more "food". Taking Changsha as an example, from November 18 to November 30, 2022, Meituan joined tens of thousands of catering merchants to launch special activities to promote consumption and special night snacks, and selected more than 20,000 high-quality winter special packages, which stimulated the consumption vitality of the "night economy". Data show that the number of stores providing night catering services on the platform increased by 20% year-on-year in November.

In terms of new business, the efficiency of commodity retail business has been greatly improved. In 2022, the revenue rose to 59.20 billion yuan, and the quarterly operating loss narrowed by 32% year-on-year to 6.40 billion yuan. Meituan market and Meituan Preferred have ensured the stable supply of users’ daily necessities during the special period, and have also played a positive role in promoting the digital transformation of the agricultural industry.

Take multiple measures to jointly promote consumption recovery

In addition to mining user requests and providing a series of accurate and high-quality marketing activities to greatly boost consumer confidence, Meituan also undertook more than 80 government consumption coupon projects in dozens of provinces and cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Hubei, and Shenzhen in 2022, and assisted the local government in issuing nearly 1 billion yuan of electronic consumption coupons, covering consumers’ all-round needs for "food, housing, travel, shopping and entertainment". Meituan data shows that among many consumption scenarios, the leverage effect of consumption coupons on in-store catering is the most obvious. During the event, the average daily transaction volume of participating merchants increased by 55% compared with the week before the event, and the average daily transaction volume of small and medium-sized merchants in Tianjin, Wuhan, Enshi, Yinchuan, Foshan and other cities increased by more than 100%.

Instant retail, characterized by minute-to-minute delivery, is a new trend in the retail industry, which makes technological innovation represented by drones expected to become the infrastructure for new business models in modern society. By the end of 2022, Meituan drone has been launched in Shenzhen and Shanghai, with routes covering 18 communities and office buildings, serving nearly 20,000 households. In the two years of normal trial operation, Meituan drone has completed more than 120,000 single delivery tasks, of which more than 100,000 orders will be completed in 2022.

"Meituan’s ability to effectively cope with external challenges and maintain growth momentum in 2022 is due to the strong resilience of the Chinese economy, the industry experience we have accumulated over the years, and the strong execution ability to adjust business strategies in a timely manner," said Chen Shaohui, Meituan CFO. "In the future, we will continue to consolidate the core capabilities of our main business and focus on new areas with growth and long-term returns. At the same time, we will insist on technological innovation to help the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, so as to help everyone eat better and live better."

The Japanese animation new work "The Son of the Weather" is popular in China, and the original novel is sought after.

The Japanese animation new work "The Son of the Weather" is popular in China, and the original novel is sought after.

Photo courtesy of the organizer of the novel "The Son of the Weather" (Simplified Chinese Version)

  Zhongxin. com, Guangzhou, November 3 (Reporter Jun Guo) The new work "The Son of the Weather" by Makoto Shinkai, a well-known Japanese animation director, was released in China on November 1. The first day’s box office performance was good, and the popularity of online topics continued to rise. With the popularity of movies, the original novel written by Makoto Shinkai has attracted much attention. The simplified Chinese version of the novel has a circulation of over 350,000 copies in the first month.

  On the afternoon of the 2nd, Guangzhou Tianwen Jiaochuan Animation Co., Ltd., the producer of the simplified Chinese version of The Son of the Weather, invited Lin Qinghua, an associate professor and translator of the School of Foreign Languages of Guangdong University of Technology, to hold a translator sharing meeting in Guangzhou Yanjiyou Bookstore to share the "Makoto Shinkai World" in The Son of the Weather.

Photo courtesy of the poster organizer of the movie "The Son of the Weather"

  "The Son of Weather" tells the story of how boys and girls, teased by fate, choose their own way of life in an era when climate control is out of control. The picture is beautiful, showing the beauty of breezes and images everywhere, with a strong personal style of Makoto Shinkai. His new work not only describes the growth of adolescent boys and girls, but also attempts to explore various conflicts between gain and loss, life and death, innocence and sophistication, personal wishes and social expectations, acting against nature and Taoism. Makoto Shinkai, with the help of delicate characterization and skillful dramatic conflict techniques, has aroused readers’ and fans’ thoughts.

  In fact, The Son of the Weather itself is Makoto Shinkai’s response to social evaluation. In the postscript of the novel of the same name, he said that the new work is not a traditional story, but your name three years ago. After the big heat, he thought about different evaluation voices from all walks of life.

The Translator Sharing Meeting of The Son of the Weather was held in Guangzhou.

  "Movies are not school textbooks." In the postscript of the novel, Makoto Shinkai wrote, "I want to narrate in a language different from textbooks, politicians and critics. I want to write stories with standards different from morality or education. "

  Makoto Shinkai is famous for the animated film Your Name. "and widely known. "Your name. "Not only was it included in Japanese film history with a box office of over 25 billion yen, but its original novel also became one of the best-selling books in Japanese library department in 2016 with a record of exceeding one million copies.

  According to the staff of Tianwen Jiaochuan, the simplified Chinese version of the novel "The Son of the Weather" was launched in Guangzhou and Shanghai at the same time on October 2. As of October 28, the circulation of the novel has exceeded 350,000 copies, ranking first in the sales list of JD.COM youth literature.

A new fruit was born! Scientists in China have crossed two fruits to produce new offspring … What’s that smell?

Longan × litchi =?

According to the micro-signal of South China Agricultural University on August 25th, the team of Professor Liu Cheng Ming from South China Agricultural University bred the world’s first new interspecific hybrid variety of longan and litchi-"Crispy Honey".

"This is the first new hybrid variety of longan and litchi in the world, which is of groundbreaking significance."

According to Liu Chengming, head of the breeding team and professor of Horticulture College of South China Agricultural University, "Crispy Honey" was developed in 15 years, and Shijie Longan and Ziniangxi Litchi were selected as hybrid objects.

Image source: South China Agricultural University micro-signal screenshot

"’Crispy Honey’ was originally called’ Shizi Crispy Honey’. It is a new variety bred by interspecific cross breeding with Shijie longan as female parent and Ziniangxi litchi as male parent." Liu Chengming introduced.

This variety has some advantages of Shek Kip Longan and Ziniangxi Litchi. Its flesh is tender and crisp, completely residue-free, and its sugar content is as high as 20-24%. "Crispy and honey well summarize its characteristics." Liu Cheng said.

Is crisp honey litchi or longan?

According to the release from Conghua, Guangzhou, recently, the reporter saw the true face of "Crispy Honey" at the on-site observation and tasting meeting of the late-maturing high-quality inter-species hybrid variety "Crispy Honey (SZ52)" held at the planting base of "Crispy Honey" in Shuixi Village, Aotou Town.

So, is this hybrid litchi or longan?

Liu Chengming, the head of the breeding team and a professor at the School of Horticulture, South China Agricultural University, explained that in fact, "Crispy Honey" is still a longan variety, but its flesh is tender, which is similar to that of litchi. In addition, the cracked skin of "Crispy Honey" is obvious and has a knot in one’s heart shape, which is also a unique feature of litchi.

Liu Chengming said that in the 1990s, there was a hot field in fruit tree breeding, that is, the technology of inducing protoplasts of different species, genera and even families to fuse by artificial methods, and then culturing them in vitro to regenerate hybrid plants.

Image source: South China Agricultural University micro-signal screenshot

At that time, many scientific research teams were doing related work, and Liu Chengming also planned to explore litchi and longan, but the results never came out. So he decided to change his mind and do sexual hybridization between the two genera. Through constant experiments, he tried hard to find the technical means to obtain hybrid seeds. With a success rate of only a few thousandths, it finally succeeded.

Its fruit is nearly round, the peel is yellow-green, and the fruit is large, with an average single fruit weight of 11.5 g. However, its flesh is thick and waxy yellow, with an edible rate of 70.8% and a sugar content as high as 20-24%. It tastes tender and crisp, has no residue at all, and has a sweet and juicy flavor and aroma.

What are the advantages of crisp honey?

According to experts, "Crispy Honey" can make the longan producing area move northward, expand the producing area and lengthen the production period because of its late maturity and cold resistance, and Guangdong longan can also be eaten in the Mid-Autumn Festival in the future.

"It has been 15 years since artificial sexual hybridization in 2007, and this process is really not easy." Liu Cheng said that the "crisp honey" cultivated now has many advantages.

First of all, the maturity of "Crispy Honey" is 15~20 days later than that of Shijie Longan, which can stagger the centralized listing time.

Image source: South China Agricultural University micro-signal screenshot

Secondly, the "crisp honey" branches have strong growth ability and the trees are strong. Shuixi Orchard began to graft "Crispy Honey" in March 2020 and began to bear fruit in 2021, which is related to the growth characteristics of "Crispy Honey". According to reports, a compound leaf of "Crispy Honey" has 7 pairs of leaflets (5 pairs of longan in Shek Kip and only 3 pairs of litchi), which are very large, with a large total leaf area and high efficiency of light energy utilization. Therefore, the pregnant spikes and fruit spikes are also large, which is easy to achieve the goal of high and stable yield.

Another important feature of "crisp honey" is that it is more resistant to low temperature and strong cold resistance. In January, 2021, Chaozhou experienced a low temperature of-3 ~-4℃. In the same area, the branches of Shijie longan were severely frozen, and the leaves were dry, yellow and curly, and the degree of freezing damage reached Grade 4, but the leaves of "Crispy Honey" were only slightly damaged, and the degree of freezing damage was only Grade 1. Therefore, in Liu Jiaoshou’s view, Conghua, located in the north of Guangzhou, has a good prospect in popularizing this variety.

In March, 2020, the first trial "crab" was made in Shuixi Village, Aotou Town, Conghua, and the "brittle honey" was grafted, and the fruit was borne in August, 2021.

At present, the base has just entered the mature stage, and the picking period can last until mid-September, which obviously prolongs the fresh fruit supply period of longan. This year is the second year of fruiting, and the output is expected to be 4000~5000 kg, mainly for customized sales. At present, all the "crisp honey" of the base has been booked out. At present, "Crispy Honey" has performed well in Chaozhou, Zhanjiang, Conghua, Qingyuan Lianzhou, Luzhou, Sichuan and Yongchuan, Chongqing. A few days ago, it just passed the on-site identification of new varieties in Guangdong Province.

Original title: "A new fruit is born! Scientists in China have crossed two fruits to produce new offspring … What’s that smell? 》

Exploring the path of intelligent social governance The exchange meeting of research results of intelligent social governance in Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle was held today.

Cover journalist Qin Yi Zhao Yi

Strengthening the country by network is an important strategic task and proper meaning to realize Chinese modernization. Empowering social governance by using internet technology and information technology is a topic that Sichuan and Chongqing jointly explore at present. What are the achievements of intelligent social governance in the two places? What are the future development directions? On December 19th,The exchange meeting on the research results of intelligent social governance in Chengdu-Chongqing Shuangcheng Economic Circle was held. Experts and scholars from all over the country gathered in Rongcheng to discuss the intelligent social governance in Chengdu-Chongqing Shuangcheng Economic Circle.

Exchange meeting site

Zhang Wei, a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the School of Public Administration of Sichuan University, discussed the intelligent social governance reform of the twin-city economic circle in Chengdu-Chongqing area with the theme of data opening and sharing. He explained the significance of intelligent social governance by comparing digital social governance with intelligent social governance in key areas, technical essentials, governance means, tasks and objectives. He mentioned that in the governance of intelligent society, the key value of data opening and sharing lies in optimizing the construction and urban planning of social intelligent cities, and improving the personalization and generalization of social services.

Sun Ying, a professor and master tutor at Southwest University of Political Science and Law, discussed how to fasten a "safety belt" for the high-quality development of the digital economy with the theme of studying new legal relations in the digital economy era. In view of the phenomenon of large-scale infringement of personal information, she suggested continuing to strengthen administrative law enforcement and promoting the implementation of the high fine system. In addition, a personal information protection fund can be established to mobilize multiple forces to protect personal information rights and interests.

Zeng Runxi, a teacher and doctoral supervisor of Chongqing University, shared his research results with the theme of improving the governance efficiency of intelligent society. He mentioned that in order to optimize the governance path of intelligent society, it is necessary to realize "upper and lower governance" and form different role setting structures in digital space and physical space. The upper layer needs to control more management scope through technology, and the lower layer needs more information and data to realize administrative transaction processing.

Professor Chih Wei Tang of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China analyzed the current situation, difficulties and economic and social problems arising from the supervision and enforcement of digital platform algorithms, and put forward countermeasures and suggestions. He said that the algorithm core processing of the digital platform involves business secrets of enterprises, and algorithm supervision should not be "one size fits all" for algorithm control. It is necessary to strengthen effective government supervision and reduce the cost of enterprise compliance.

Huang Dongdong, deputy dean of the School of Cyberspace Security and Information Law of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, analyzed the big data of cyber security patents, and put forward suggestions for the industrial development of the Shuangcheng Economic Circle in Chengdu and Chongqing. In his research, he found that the twin-city economic circle in Chengdu-Chongqing region has certain early accumulation and relative advantages in the application of security and security situation awareness, and universities are the main innovation subjects.

Yu Xin, an associate professor at Tsinghua University School of Journalism and Communication, shared his understanding of the current intelligentization of social governance with "The Big Language Model of Twin Public Opinion Space and the Intelligentization of Social Governance". Through the research on the hot public opinions in Sichuan and Chongqing, he found that in the previous network impressions, Sichuan and Chongqing had labels and impressions such as tourist hotspots and online celebrity clusters, and we can focus on these aspects in the future.

The relevant person in charge of the Network Information Office of Sichuan Provincial Party Committee said that in order to better promote the comprehensive network governance and empower the modern governance of the twin-city economic circle, Sichuan and Chongqing should combine the comprehensive network governance with the promotion of urban and rural grassroots governance system innovation and capacity building, explore the deep application of intelligent technology in people’s livelihood fields such as education, employment, social security, sports, housing, transportation, helping the disabled and providing for the elderly, solve the pain points and difficulties in social governance, and promote the formation of a comprehensive network governance pattern of online and offline integrated governance.

At the same time, around the key areas of cooperation in Chengdu-Chongqing area, such as smart transportation, energy security, smart water conservancy, industrial development, eco-livability, and services for the benefit of the people, we will guide the construction of a number of digital application scenarios that are visible, tangible and well used, and launch more intelligent governance samples with the recognition of Sichuan and Chongqing, forming a demonstration and leading role in the west, and promoting the achievements of Internet governance construction to benefit more grassroots people.

In the next step, we will explore intelligent governance in cooperation around key areas such as smart transportation, energy security, smart water conservancy, industrial development, ecological livability, and service for the benefit of the people in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, build a number of digital application scenarios that are visible, tangible and well used, and launch more intelligent governance samples with Sichuan-Chongqing recognition, thus forming a demonstration and radiation-driven role in the west.