Sep 21, 2020| ESG

JD Launches Free Storage for Alzheimer’s Patients and Family Members

Yuchuan Wang

by Yuchuan Wang

Today, the 27^th World Alzheimer’s Day, JD’s Mini Storage warehouse service launched a special charity project for people who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. Through the initiative, Alzheimer’s patients and their relatives who sign up from September 21^st to November 25^th can keep their belongings in JD’s warehouses one year for free.

There are over 50 million people in the world living with dementia (Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia), of which 10 million reside in China.

Xiao Hang, a Beijing resident, is the grandson of an Alzheimer’s patient. He recently stored his miniature car models and furniture in JD’s warehouse as he is currently renovating his home.

Xiao Hang said he became fascinated in miniature car models over 20 years ago when a Japanese cartoon called Bakusou Kyoudai Let’s & Go (The Racing Brothers Let’s & Go)came to China. His grandmother, who developed Alzheimer’s last year and lost both many of her memories and her language capability as a result, bought him his very first car model that he could join in and play with the other kids.

“Every time I went back home, [my grandmother] would stare at me for a long time. Even when she finally recognized me, she cannot speak, but cried instead. These car models represent an emotional attachment between me and her.” said Xiao Hang.

“As long as you have items that you can’t bear to part with, you can store them in our Mini Storage [facility],” said Liangliang Liu, head of JD Mini Storage. “We hope to provide a reassuring place for all people in need, such as families who are relocating, students, small apartment dwellers, travelers, and more.”

Launched in 2019, JD Mini Storage enables individuals and small enterprises to store their goods in JD’s warehouses securely and cost-effectively. The service has now been expanded to over 10 cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Alzheimer’s patients and their relatives can indicate as such on the order form and then customer service will contact them to arrange free pickup.

(yuchuan.wang@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)