Meituan opened a supermarket near my home—the physical store of Xiangxiang Supermarket. It was always packed, and I only had time to go there once, during the holiday. I didn’t expect this store to have a pretty high strategic position within Meituan. The people in charge of procurement, R&D, and operations would hang around on-site, keeping watch, and record customer feedback. I stopped to chat for a couple of minutes, and the R&D staff were pretty interesting too. He said that American giants are building rockets and working on AI,