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.
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.
HBS Students Take a Virtual Trip to JD.com
