https://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0408/c98649-20299184.html
'Thanks to a drone-assisted meal delivery service, elderly residents in the
mountainous areas of a village in east China's Zhejiang Province can now
receive warm meals from a canteen for the elderly within minutes.
On March 31, 2025, the drones began delivering meals for 168 elderly residents
across the five natural villages under Fenglian village, Hengcun township,
Tonglu county, Hangzhou city, capital of Zhejiang Province, marking the launch
of the trial run of Zhejiang's first drone-assisted meal delivery project for
the elderly in mountainous areas.
In Songjia village, one of Fenglian's five natural villages, the delivery time
has been slashed from 30 minutes by car to just four minutes by drone.
"Two meat dishes and one vegetarian dish only cost three yuan ($0.41). The
canteen is 3 kilometers away, and now the food gets here in just a few minutes.
That was unimaginable in the past," said a villager named Song Jinchun.
The drone-assisted service, jointly launched by the government of Hengcun
township and Chinese courier enterprise YTO Express, currently uses two drones,
each capable of carrying up to 40 kilograms and flying for around 20 minutes.
Compared with traditional delivery methods, the drones are more than five times
as efficient.'
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