Wang Pu, Meituan's CEO, discusses the "takeout war": If we use the opponent's method of subsidizing, we can make as many orders as we want.

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17/07/2025
Today, according to the LatePost report, Wang Puzhong, CEO of Meituan's core local business sector, talked about the constant impact of the "takeout war" on new order data, and expressed his hope that everyone, including all sectors of society, can discuss and reflect on the significance behind this - whether the rush to place orders has any positive impact on society and whether it is meaningful for the continuous development of the industry. There is even a joke online that "people are getting diabetes from drinking too much [sugar]". He mentioned that we initially did not want to get involved, we were passively involved. Since we are involved, we need to reveal the truth about the rush of orders in the industry - if you want to do a certain number of orders, I can tell you how to do it, and at a lower cost. We don't need to achieve a certain number of orders, but we want to show the industry that placing orders is easy. I want to tell everyone that with our system capabilities, if we use the same method of subsidies as the other party, we can do however many orders we want. We have done 150 million, we can do 160 million, 200 million or more. But we don't need to do that.