Apr 24, 2020| ESG

World Retail Congress Spotlights Role of JD’s Supply Chain in COVID-19 Fight

Ella Kidron

by Ella Kidron and Yuchuan Wang

On April 23^rd, World Retail Congress published the second issue of its fortnightly series, “The Retail World: 2020: Retailing in a time of crisis”. The series provides global retailers insight into how peers around the world are coping with and responding to the needs of their customers, communities and businesses under COVID-19. The issue features submissions from companies from around the world including the likes of Walgreens-Alliance Boots, IKEA Retail, and Lane Crawford Joyce Group.

JD.com’s smart supply chain’s undeniable role in the fight against COVID-19 is highlighted, capturing some of the technological maneuvers behind the company’s support of the medical frontlines as well as Chinese consumers across the country through its supply chain capabilities. Download the full report from the World Retail Congress’ official website: https://www.worldretailcongress.com/congess-content/issue-two-the-retail-world-2020-retailing-in-a-time-of-crisis

World Retail Congress is a key global retail industry organization designed to bring people together in the industry from a wide group of stakeholders to encourage innovation.

The full text of JD’s submission can be found here: https://jdcorporateblog.com/in-depth-report-turning-extraordinary-to-ordinary/

(ella@jd.com; 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)