美团王莆中：将AI融入家庭健康，助力建设“15分钟医疗圈”

TL;DR - At the 2026 Global Health Summit in Hong Kong, Meituan Core Local Commerce CEO Wang Puzhong outlined the company's push to embed AI into household healthcare and co-build a "15-minute medical service circle." It matters as a large-scale test of consumer platform infrastructure (delivery, listings, payments) being repurposed as healthcare distribution as China shifts from hospital-bed expansion to digital capacity.

• Scale of the connector network: 160k partner medical institutions, 250k pharmacies, structured listings for 1.8M facilities, ~4M new user reviews monthly, 430M cumulative users served; drug delivery averages 22 minutes, backed by 15k 24-hour pharmacies and 24/7 online consultation.
• AI product layer: "Xiaotuan Health Steward" (launched H1 2026) supports medication consultation, health management, and IoT monitoring, building personal health records that chain daily Q&A → online consultation → offline care.
• Underlying AI infrastructure: the trillion-parameter LongCat-2.0 model was open-sourced mid-year, and the CatPaw all-scenario AI agent platform is now open to merchants; Meituan has also invested in embodied intelligence.
• Policy driver: the State Council's "15th Five-Year" National Health Plan (July) caps public hospital beds, and 2025 statistics show the first bed-count decline in over a decade alongside 470M more annual visits — framing "access" as information, time, and service availability rather than physical build-out.