Feb 9, 2021|
JD Voluntarily Transports COVID-19 Vaccine
by Yuchuan Wang
On Feb. 9, JD Logistics, JD.com’s logistics arm, began the voluntary transportation of China’s COVID-19 vaccine in Yizhuang, the Economic-Technological Development Area in the south of Beijing. JD will handle the last-mile delivery of the vaccine from a government-designated transfer warehouse to the vaccination points in the area.
JD’s cold chain logistics system ensures the whole procedure of distribution is traceable and controllable. All vaccines are transported between 2 to 8 degrees Celsius. The company’s cold chain monitoring platform will monitor and record real-time location and refrigerator temperature and report abnormal situations immediately.
JD has several ongoing projects concerning the COVID-19 vaccine transportation, and is expected to transport the vaccine in more regions after the Chinese New Year holiday. In January, JD added a dedicated pharmaceuticals warehouse in Shenyang, Liaoning province to its over 800 warehouse network nationwide. The company is also building cold chain sorting centers for pharmaceutical products in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Xi’an and Shenyang.
“JD is among the first of third party companies to develop pharmaceutical logistics, and has been committed to building its integrated pharmaceutical cold chain services,” said a JD Logistics representative. “In the future, JD Logistics will further leverage its advantages in logistics infrastructure, network and capacity, apply advanced technologies and continue investment in this area to drive innovation in the industry. We hope to work with up and downstream partners to build an efficient pharmaceutical cold chain system and help the industry reduce costs.”
Aug 19, 2022|
JD Logistics Put Battery Swapping Vehicles in Use
by Yuchuan Wang
JD Logistics officially put into use battery swapping vehicles on August 15. Since the company began trial operations in March, JD Logistics has deployed such EVs across China and became China’s first logistics enterprise that adopts battery swapping EV at a large scale. By the end of 2022, 1,000 battery swapping EVs will be in use.
As the end of 2021, JD Logistics used approximately 20,000 new energy vehicles in over 50 cities in China including hydrogen energy vehicles, reducing CO2 emissions by 400,000 tons annually. Additionally, the battery swapping solution is expected to increase the electricity consumption ratio by 25 percent in logistics parks, reducing the number of vehicles by 20 percent and carbon emissions by 15 percent for each vehicle, with the comprehensive carbon emissions reducing by 35 percent.
Jointly researched by JD Logistics and Quanlucheng Logistics Technology, the battery swapping solution utilizes the universal battery pack that can be adapted to different kinds of vehicles. The pack is designed to be flexible and can be upgraded to cleaner energy. At the same time, it does not require any upgrade of the existing power grid and can be adjusted to be connected with logistics parks’ distributed energy systems quickly and easily.
In the future, JD Logistics will use GHG protocol to track and calculate the enterprise’s full-chain greenhouse gas emissions, and leverage blockchain and digital platforms to track and manage these emissions, so as to receive the carbon integral certification by international carbon emission reduction organizations.
Aug 18, 2022|
UNFAO Representative Visits JD.com
by Mengyang He
JD.com welcomed the representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) to China, Carlos Watson at JD.com’s headquarters and Asia No.1 Intelligent Logistics Park in Beijing on August 16, with an aim to initiate cooperative work plans revolving around agricultural produce, products with geographical indications (GIs), rural development, and more.
“JD.com has always been enthusiastically devoted to rural development,” noted Lizhen Liu, Vice President of JD.com, President of JD FMCG Omni-channel. “From poverty alleviation to rural revitalization, we deploy technology, logistics, and supply chain to solve outstanding issues in the circulation of agricultural produce.”
Watson said, “The FAO representation in China is committed to working with partners to serve China’s agriculture-related initiatives, including rural revitalization. We are delighted to see JD.com’s efforts in the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).”
As JD.com is firmly committed to rural revitalization, it implemented the “March to Rich Plan” initiative (MRP) in 2020, which has integrated and leveraged JD.com’s five core capabilities in supply chain, logistics, technology, finance, and service through five major projects. By the end of 2021, the MRP had driven villages to achieve an output value of RMB 320 billion yuan (about US$ 47 billion) and helped nearly one million farmers significantly increase their incomes. As of now, JD.com has connected over 1,000 agricultural product regions in China, directly benefiting a large number of farmers and local specialties in rural areas.
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