Nov 23, 2020| ESG

JD Health Is Committed to Mental Health Relief

Hui Zhang

by Hui Zhang

“During the epidemic, online consultation channels became the preferred platform for consultation and treatment of mental illness and psychological disorders,” said Gaohua Wang, president of the Chinese Psychiatrist Association of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association (CMDA). He made the remarks at the 16^th annual meeting of psychiatrists of CMDA on November 20^th.

JD Health is committed to helping people with mental illness by setting up psychological support platforms, facilitating the building of internet hospitals for mental health specialties, and providing livestreams to share disseminate relevant knowledge.

“As the prevention and control of the pandemic becomes normalized, “Internet + Medical Health” will continue to play an important role in the long-term efforts to help people with mental illness,” he added.

To cope with psychological problems faced by citizens and medical staff in Hubei province as a result of the coronavirus, JD Health established a public welfare platform for psychological counseling in Hubei with support from local government in September. JD Health worked with community doctors to sign dedicated service contracts with each patient recovering from the coronavirus, and offer them personalized psychological counseling support.

In March, JD Health together with Chinese Psychiatrist Association of CMDA set up a psychological consultation platform within the JD app provide free psychological services to people across China. So far, more than 5,000 psychiatrists participated in providing free consultations, providing more than 100,000 consultations in total. During the pandemic, JD Health helped Peking University Sixth Hospital, the Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, and Tianjin Mental Health Center to construct online psychological consultation platforms and internet hospitals to benefit not only the medical staff working on the frontlines, but also the public across China.

JD Health also invited psychiatrists to participate in a number of livestreams, focusing on anxiety, sleep, bipolar disorder and other areas, effectively easing the anxiety of medical staff and the general public.

(zhanghui36@jd.com)

Jul 29, 2021| ESG

JD Cloud’s Data Center Awarded as Carbon-Reduction Innovator

Vivian Yang

by Vivian Yang

JD Cloud won an innovation award for its low-carbon data center in Suqian of Jiangsu province and has been certified as an excellent carbon disclosure internet and tech company in the latest evaluation of data centers’ carbon emission performance organized by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), publicity center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Open Data Center Committee (ODCC) on July 13^th in Beijing.

“The fast development of digital transformation in many industries has driven up energy consumption for data centers,” said Liqiang Gao, president of JD Cloud. “We have been adopting technological innovation and clean energy in operating JD’s data centers across China to go digital and green in our carbon reduction efforts.”

JD Cloud has taken measures in four main areas to cut its data center carbon emission, including improving power usage effectiveness (PUE) by adopting frequency conversion products in all water pumps and fans; careful disposal of waste water and batteries; adoption of photovoltaic and solar power in its industrial parks and self-developing high-performance liquid-cooled servers, and equipping IoT devices at scale to optimize the efficiency of the electric system and more.

In recent years JD has been committed to sustainability, as outlined in its recent ESG report published earlier this year, and as early as 2018, in its Sustainability Report 2018-2020. In October 2019, JD Logistics announced to join Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), becoming the first Chinese logistics company to join this initiative. In November 2020, it made the commitment to reduce 50% carbon emissions by 2030, a target that has been approved and listed on SBTi’s website.

(vivian.yang@jd.com)