It is reported that Meituan gave up self-management by taxi and turned to aggregation mode in an all-round way.

CTOnews.com March 6 news, according to the "later LatePost" report, Meituan car-hailing today (March 6) announced internally to give up self-car-hailing business, fully turning to the aggregation mode. At the same time, the taxi-hailing business will be merged into the Meituan platform, and the business BM (Business Manager, business manager) Zhang Xingyuan (Rocky) turns to Li Shubin, the head of Meituan platform, to report.

Reported that in the internal notice, Meituan said that the follow-up will reduce the online ride-hailing business of resources and manpower investment, light travel. And the current team, some will remain in the ride-hailing, the rest will be deployed in batches to other lines of business.

CTOnews.com summed up the previous news that Meituan started pilot operation in Nanjing in February 2017, and the business model has changed many times and vacillated between self-management and aggregation mode.

In November 2021, it was reported that Meituan had split the intelligent transportation platform, which had been established for less than a year, and that the taxi-hailing and unmanned car distribution departments under the platform were independent.

In September 2022, Meituan connected to Tencent by taxi to provide services in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Zhengzhou, Chongqing and other cities.

According to reports, a person close to Meituan believes that the background of this adjustment is that Meituan's main businesses are facing greater pressure this year, and the main tone of non-core business is to reduce costs and increase efficiency. At present, Meituan has about 1m daily taxi orders, of which self-operated orders account for about 40 per cent.