Alibaba drones fly over Beijing as Amazon pleads for US tests
Shanghai
CHINESE e-commerce giant Alibaba on Wednesday tested its first drone delivery service, promising to whisk ginger tea to customers within an hour despite tight controls on airspace.
Alibaba's flagship consumer-to-consumer marketplace Taobao, estimated to hold more than 90 per cent of the Chinese market for such transactions, showed off a photo of a black and silver drone with helicopter-like propellers carrying a white box to launch the service.
But the option is confined to just three days and a few areas of three Chinese mega-cities - the capital Beijing, commercial hub Shanghai and Guangzhou in the south - and applies only to one brand of tea from one particular ven…
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