Pinduoduo, Chinese discount e-commerce platform, announced on March 6 the launch of of an offline community purchasing tool called“kuaituantuan.com”, which was added as a WeChat mini program.

Kuaituantuan.com is a group buying tool that assists vendors to collect onlinethe needs of a given community residents, place orders and receive payments online. Through this mini-programm, vendors can also launch group purchase pages that allows residents to have better price. Contactless delivery by the merchant to the community gate as required. Since the COVID-19, the "kuaituantuan.com" has served more than 10,000 neighborhood

businesses, more than half of which are offline merchants from the  Hubei province.