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The Inside Story of How Meituan Dianping Built China's Largest E-commerce Platform for Services

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HONG KONG, Sep 10, 2018 - (ACN Newswire) - Back in 2010, serial entrepreneur Wang Xing founded Meituan in Beijing as a startup focused on restaurant reviews and local deals. In less than eight years, Wang and his team have built one of the largest e-commerce platforms in China.The name for Meituan has two characters in Chinese: "Mei", meaning...

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