Packaging form is the earliest form of takeaway, the general understanding is the fast food delivery service, said Chinese food like a meat and a vegetarian kind, and there are Western-style. In fact, from the broad sense of all sellers by providing out services and goods can be said to be takeaway. Like water delivery, flower delivery, gas delivery, merchandise delivery, door-to-door repair of things, in fact, these are all belong to the takeaway.

After the previous years' money-burning subsidy wars and merger and acquisition waves, China's takeaway industry has crossed the stage of barbaric growth, and has now stepped into a period of stable development that spells out brand, quality and service. The development of the market is mainly supported by the number of takeaway users. After the rapid expansion of the number of takeaway users in the early stage, the growth rate began to slow down from 2015, and the number of takeaway users reached 305 million by the end of 2017, and is expected to reach 355 million in 2018.

Last year, the network takeout market after subsidies to stimulate the user phase, the industry scale quickly bigger, has basically completed the coverage of the country's major cities, the cultivation of user habits has begun to bear fruit.

Referring to the newly released "Online Takeaway Industry In-depth Analysis Report: Competition, Mode and Investment Strategy", the data shows that China's online takeaway market scale will reach 113.3 billion yuan in 2016, a year-on-year growth of 147.9%. In the face of such a huge prospect, Internet giants, capital, millions of entrepreneurs have begun to target "Internet + catering", change is slowly happening in this market.

At present, the scale of online takeout transactions in the catering industry still accounts for a relatively low proportion of the further development of catering logistics, takeout entrances and scenarios to improve the application of the opening, the expansion of the city to use the user needs and digging deeper, it is expected that the online takeout market in the next three years will continue to maintain the growth trend, but the year-on-year growth rate will be reduced. It is expected that the transaction scale of China's online takeaway market will reach RMB 337.8 billion in 2019.