Definition
Plain language
A big Chinese app for ordering food delivery and local services, roughly its DoorDash.
As stated in the literature
A Chinese on-demand delivery and local-services super-app; a target application in Chinese mobile-agent benchmarks.
Why it matters: It matters as a common everyday app that mobile agents must handle to be genuinely useful in China.
For example, someone might use Meituan to order lunch delivery and book a haircut in the same app.
Heard on the show
“Quick gloss for anyone outside that ecosystem: Taobao is roughly Amazon, Weibo is roughly Twitter, Douyin is the domestic TikTok, Meituan is roughly DoorDash, RedNote is a lifestyle-and-shopping feed.”Episode 185 — Aligned to Refuse, Built to Tap: When Phone Agents Know the Task Is a Crime and Do It Anyway