En deze had ik nog niet gehoord van Meituan. innovatie door corona en totale lockdown in China:
Since March, omicron spread to many regions, including Shanghai, Shenzhen and Jilin, controlled measures were stricter with many merchants suspending operations and couriers getting quarantined meaningfully limiting our merchant supplies and delivery capacities in these cities and hence, impacting business growth. However, we leveraged our strong organizational and execution capabilities accumulated over the years to help people meet their daily needs during lockdowns in Shanghai and others.
For example, we quickly pioneered and launched the community group meal services, residents in the same community can order meals in bulk together, which are prepared in central kitchens, and delivered by us through vehicles to ensure steady routine meal supply.
The services covered over 9,000 communities and 10 million residents this is the initial launch, which also helped us bring a lot of new users to our platform. Besides, we also launched emergency helpers services. In Chinese, it's called [Foreign Language] establish -- to especially -- to actually address the needs of the elderly, pregnant women and people with disabilities, including delivery meals, supermarket grocery and emergency medicines.