Get international recognition! JD.COM was selected into the Dow Jones Sustainable Development World Index for the first time.
Recently, the Standard & Poor’s Dow Jones Index (S&P DJI) announced the results of the annual review of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJI). JD.COM Group was selected into the Dow Jones Sustainable Development World Index for the first time for its outstanding performance in ESG (environment, society and governance).
DJSI is a floating-adjusted market value-weighted index, which is based on environmental, social and governance (ESG) Standard-screened enterprises measure performance. DJSI, including the Dow Jones Sustainable Development World Index, was launched in 1999 and is the first series of global sustainable development benchmark indexes on the market.
JD.COM Group’s Report on Environment, Society and Governance in 2022 shows that in the changing year of 2022, JD.COM, born from reality, deeply realized the great responsibility of adhering to sustainable development, and the importance of ensuring the smooth, stable and reliable social supply chain, as well as the value of helping the transformation and upgrading of the national supply chain and high-quality development. Therefore, JD.COM Group has coupled the concept of enterprise sustainable development with the value proposition of "responsible supply chain", more firmly promoted the continuous optimization of environment, society and governance, and responded to uncertainty with a more steady attitude.
In terms of sustainable development, by the end of 2022, the cumulative number of circulating express packages of Jingdong Logistics has exceeded 220 million times, and 200,000 circulating green boxes have been put into normal operation in 30 cities, with a cumulative number of 20 million times. JD.COM has installed distributed photovoltaic power generation systems in 23 intelligent industrial parks, and JD.COM’s "Asia No.1" Xi ‘an Intelligent Industrial Park has become the first logistics park in China to achieve carbon neutrality, and has put in large-scale electric vehicles and put on hydrogen energy transportation lines nationwide. In terms of supporting employment and employee care, JD.COM has created 290,000 new jobs in the past three years, and the salary and welfare expenditure of front-line employees has reached 106.5 billion yuan. It has invested 10 billion yuan to set up a "housing security fund" for employees, and will invest more than 6 billion yuan to build a "JD.COM Youth City" employee housing project. In terms of rural revitalization, JD.COM has served agricultural modernization with the ability of the whole industrial chain, helped small farmers integrate into big industries and connect with big markets, and in less than three years, it has driven rural areas to achieve over one trillion output value and helped millions of farmers to increase their income; At the second JD.COM Agricultural Special Shopping Festival held in September this year, JD.COM helped more than 2,000 agricultural characteristic industrial belts to achieve high-quality development.
JD.COM Group takes "success in the right way" as its business belief and compliance as its foundation, so that the concept of "compliance is development" is deeply integrated into all businesses, and it insists on commercial success through compliance governance. At the beginning of 2023, JD.COM Group formally established a board-levelESGWomen account for nearly 43% of the committee and the board of directors, which supervise and guide related matters such as climate, environment, risk, health and safety, business ethics, product safety and service, diversification and inclusiveness.
In October, 2023, JD.COM Group joined the latest sustainable development initiative of the United Nations Global Compact. At the same time, in the latest "Accelerating Progress" initiative launched by the United Nations Global Compact, JD.COM is willing to take the lead in making a commitment on the related goals of "gender equality", and will continue to promote the concept of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility, and contribute "JD.COM Power" to the realization of global sustainable development goals.
As a technology and service enterprise based on supply chain, JD.COM takes "technology-oriented, committed to a more efficient and sustainable world" as its mission, insists on doing practical, valuable and long-term things, and works with all sectors of society to draw a beautiful, green and win-win sustainable development picture in a pragmatic and innovative spirit.