Nov 23, 2020|
JD Health Is Committed to Mental Health Relief
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 16th annual meeting of psychiatrists of CMDA on November 20th.
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.
Oct 20, 2023|
JD.com Joins UN Global Compact’s “Forward Faster” Initiative for 2030
On October 17th, JD.com announced it has joined the UN Global Compact’s “Forward Faster” initiative, underscoring the company’s commitment to sustainability and global development. The announcement coincided with Sandra Ojiambo, Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations and CEO and Executive Director of UN Global Compact, visiting JD.com’s headquarters in Beijing, which marked the first enterprise visit of her China tour this week.
The UN Global Compact’s Forward Faster initiative, launched on September 18, 2023, calls on business leaders worldwide to take measurable, credible, and ambitious action in five areas — gender equality, climate action, living wage, water resilience, and finance & investment. These areas have the power to accelerate progress across all SDGs, enabling the private sector to collectively make the biggest and fastest impact by 2030.
“It is a great pleasure connecting with JD.com’s first female CEO, Sandy Xu, and gaining insights into the company’s history and impressive e-commerce platform,” said Sanda Ojiambo. “JD.com has effectively integrated the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into its core operations. We appreciate and welcome the company’s commitment to Forward Faster.”
Sandy Xu, CEO of JD.com, said, ” With our extensive supply chain, technology prowess, and a strong workforce of hundreds of thousands of employees – predominantly from rural backgrounds -JD.com is proud to offer diverse employment avenues. We look forward to collaborating with the UN Global Compact as we strengthen our endeavors in green supply chains, poverty alleviation, and holistic employee welfare. As part of ‘Forward Faster’, our immediate focus is gender equality, underscoring our broader commitment to the global Sustainable Development Goals.”
Sandy Xu (left) and Sanda Ojiambo look at JD’s recyclable delivery boxes, known as the Green Stream Boxes
JD.com has actively participated in various sustainable development activities through the UN Global Compact. The company’s low-carbon operating practices under its Green Stream Initiative, such as promoting green packaging, adopting new energy delivery vehicles, utilizing rooftop solar power for logistics parks, and incorporating sustainable building materials in office buildings, were recognized as best practices in the UN Global Compact’s 2021 whitepaper “Corporate Net Zero Pathway.” JD.com was also among the early adopters to join the UN Global Compact’s Climate Ambition Accelerator (CAA) and Target Gender Equality (TGE) programs in 2022. Notably, JD’s “Sunshine Angel” initiative, which provides people with disabilities with online customer service job opportunities led by women leaders, has been included as a best practice case in TGE.
As JD.com gears up for its upcoming Singles’ Day Grand Promotion from October 23 to November 11, the company has joined forces with several renowned fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies to establish the Green Impact Partners Alliance. This ambitious venture aims to jointly implement actions for green consumption. Covering hundreds of millions of consumers, it is the largest green consumption initiative in the FMCG industry. The initiative includes tree-planting based on sales volumes and a one-yuan donation for afforestation with every consumer purchase. Through carbon-reducing efforts on both the supply and demand sides, JD.com effectively supports responsible production and consumption.
HBS Students Take a Virtual Trip to JD.com
