May 19, 2020|
JD.com Celebrates Fifth Employee Appreciation Day with 30,000 Five-year Employees
by Rachel Liu and Tracy Yang
Since 2016, every May 19th JD.com celebrates its “519 Employee Appreciation Day”. Among current 220,000 employees, there are several thousand employees who have worked at JD for at least 10 years and around 30, 000 for at least five years.
In the past 22 years since JD was established, the company has successfully redefined “trust” in the retail industry, reshaped the retail experience, and reinterpreted the value of the retail industry.
Below are the stories of three long-serving JD employees to help shine a light on the company culture.
(liuchang61@jd.com; tracy.yang@jd.com)
Aug 16, 2022|
For Each Trade-In Order of Electronic Products, JD Matches 1 Yuan to Tree Planting
by Vivian Yang
JD.com and China Green Foundation jointly announced a charitable project on August 11th, through which the e-commerce company will contribute RMB 1 yuan to the Foundation’s tree-planting plan every time an electronics product is ordered via JD’s trade-in service, starting from the 15th this month.
Cell phones, digital, home appliances and other electronic products are all included in this campaign. Consumers can recycle used devices for new electronics at favorable prices through JD’s trade-in program, and the aggregate orders will become the sum amount of donation from JD.com, funding the next spring’s planting of wolfberry saplings in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
Chinese wolfberries are a specialty in Ningxia in north-central China and can grow in local deserts to shield sands and tame desertification.
Recycling e-waste has become an imminent task in China. An alarming estimation by the National Development and Reform Committee said that the amount of electronic waste in this country averages 100-120 million items a year and it will reach a peak of 137 million in 2022. This “1 Yuan Green Initiative” is concrete action from JD.com, as China’s leading retailer of electronic products, to combat the challenge.
Statistics also show that the power use of household appliances account for 11.3 percent of the national electricity consumption, and about 30 percent of residents’ carbon emissions come from household appliances.
Trading in a refrigerator can cut carbon emissions by 30 kilograms, according to the Beijing Green Exchange. Meanwhile, a tree can absorb an average of about 10 kilograms of CO2 per year, meaning one such trade-in order can save the work of three trees for a whole year.
To encourage carbon reduction from the consumer end, JD.com also introduced the “Green Impact Initiative” this May in which one million different kinds of products on JD.com now have been screened for environmentally-friendly standards and green-labeled, making it easier for the platform of over 580 million consumers to reach greener products.
Aug 1, 2022|
JD Logistics Announces Supply Chain Decarbonization Initiative
by Doris Liu
JD.com’s logistics arm JD Logistics (JDL) and the Green Supply Chain Professional Committee of the All-China Environment Federation jointly released action guidelines on July 27 for achieving a more sustainable and low-carbon supply chain.
The Supply Chain Decarbonization Initiative, proposed at the second Sustainable Consumption Forum, which is part of the CICPE (China International Consumption Products Expo) held in Haikou, capital of Hainan province, is based on the belief that setting up a unified standard for calculating carbon emissions is the foundation of decarbonization to ensure accurate, fair and comparable results among companies. By focusing on technology and application, companies can achieve life-cycle carbon reduction goals through designing more sustainable products and services. Also, the initiative encourages the companies involved in the industry chain to share a common goal during collaboration to slow and eventually stop global warming. Previously, JDT has already committed to reducing carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2030 (starting from 2019).
“The ‘Supply Chain Decarbonization Initiative’ not only enables companies with relatively small carbon footprints to have the same significant impact globally, but also eases the cost investment for companies and provides a way for consumers to reduce carbon emissions by dispersing the decarbonization cost along the value chain,” said Wenming Zhe, head of the smart logistics park innovation department at JD Logistics.
In addition, JDL also announced that it will officially join the Global Sustainable Consumption Initiative with the commitment of always fulfilling “responsible supply chain” and promoting end-to-end green and integrated supply chain together with upstream and downstream partners as well as consumers.
As a leading supply chain solution and logistics service provider in China, JDL helps its partners cope with external uncertainties and promote high-quality development based on an agile, stable and sustainable supply chain, noted Yanping Su, Deputy General Manager of JD Logistics’ Southern China Branch, during the forum held on the sideline of the second China International Consumer Products Expo (CICPE).
The Global Sustainable Consumption Initiative was proposed a year ago at the first CICPE by China Sustainability Tribune together with companies that actively push forward green consumption. It advocates companies to provide sustainable products and services, conveying the concept of sustainability to customers and foster a sustainable consumption culture, etc. As of now, 12 renowned domestic and overseas companies and brands have taken part in the proposal.
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