the dual pressures of revenue increase and fierce competition, online meal ordering platforms have limited investment in restaurant qualification inspection and product quality audit. Therefore, illegal restaurants register on many platforms and receive recommendation through bid ranking. The online meal ordering industry needs to be further standardized. Seen from the market level, the online meal ordering market formed a three-way race in which ele.me, meituan.com and Baidu competed in 2016, with market concentration further improved. However, for the market, profits are a core problem concerning these platforms. Meituan.com operates its Maoyan movie ticket business, ele.me marches towards the traditional logistics, and Huangtaiji closed a large number of factory outlets after its transformation into an online meal ordering platform one year ago. All these market behaviors reflect the huge profit challenge in this field. As online meal ordering is limited by high marginal labor costs, to gain profits is to bring into full play the infromatization of the “Internet +” initiative and the data mining, improve the quality of upstream traditional dining and the delivery efficiency, or reduce transaction costs of downstream users and improve user experience. 3.3 Travel booking As of December 2016, the number of netizens with the experience of booking air tickets, hotel rooms, train tickets or holiday travels on the Internet reached 299 million, representing an increase of 39.67 million or 15.3% over the end of 2015. The Internet users who had booked train tickets, air tickets, hotel rooms and holiday travels online respectively accounted for 34.0%, 15.9%, 17.2% and 7.4% of total netizens. Specifically, the number of netizens having booked air tickets, hotel rooms, train tickets and holiday travels on the mobile Internet reached 262 million, representing an increase of 51.89 million or 24.7% over the end of 2015. Chinese netizens’ utilization ratio of mobile travel booking increased from 33.9% to 37.7%. The 39th Statistical Report on Internet Development in China 6767
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