Alibaba: Start Testing UAV To Deliver Service

As report goes,

The group recently began testing UAVs to reach delivery service to overcome domestic logistics barriers.

Before, Amazon executive director Geoff Bezos also carried out UAV delivery service, and now Alibaba is also in China to achieve this vision.

Taobao official micro-blog account released 4 days, Bowen said, Ali initially the scope of the experiment is very small, only Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou 450 merchants carried out the UAV delivery test.

But Ali group said that these UAVs shipped only the ginger tea wrapped in Shou Quan Zai. The three day experiment was carried out by the Shanghai express.

Alibaba said that in this experiment, all ginger tea ordered on Taobao can be delivered to designated cities or areas within one hour.

This is the first time Alibaba has tested UAV delivery, but they are not sure what the future development of UAV delivery will be.

Ali group to invest in China

To improve the current slow development of cargo pport infrastructure to make this move.

The group announced in 2013 that it will invest $16 billion 300 million (about 101 billion 800 million yuan) in the next five to eight years to build a logistics network that can deliver goods within 24 hours.

In addition, Ali also invested $361 million in Haier electric (2 billion 255 million yuan) to expand its business.

Ma Yun said that at present, there are about 25 million packages per day in China, which will reach 200 million in ten years.

Logistics partners of Ali group

An UAV delivery test was also conducted in Dongguan, Guangdong, in December 2013.

The UAV model can fly at a height of 100 meters and deliver to some remote areas.

Shun Feng express said that if the company wants to implement UAV delivery service throughout the country, it will communicate with the relevant departments.