Published: 6:04pm, 21 Sep, 2017 Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018
The Chinese market for fresh food deliveries is set to triple in size between 2016 and 2018, but the lack of development in China's cold-chain logistics infrastructure means that only online delivery giants like JD.com and Alibaba will be able to take advantage. Online deliveries currently make up just 2% of China's total fresh food industry, compared to 40% for clothes and electronics. In a bid to boost its own business, China has also been investing heavily into developing new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) which are expected to help it improve on existing