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Douyin Delivered to Your Doorstep: China’s TikTok App Launching Nationwide Food Delivery Services?

Watching videos on Meituan and ordering food from TikTok?

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4 years ago

February 8, 2023

This week, TMT Post (钛媒体) reported that, starting on March 1st of this year, the Chinese TikTok app (Douyin) will roll out a nationwide food delivery service. The app is already running a trial in food delivery through group buying on its app in Shanghai, Beijing, and Chengdu (“团购配送”).

Bytedance, the company behind TikTok, respondedto the news by saying that it was indeed rolling out its food delivery services, but that there was…

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