Chinanews.com, October 23. On June 18, JD.com was listed in Hong Kong and raised more than 30 billion Hong Kong dollars to invest in technology.
On September 11, the Shanghai Stock Exchange disclosed the prospectus of JD Digital. JD Digital plans to invest more than 72% of the proceeds from the listing in technology.
On September 27, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange disclosed the prospectus of JD Health. JD Health will strive to create an "Internet + medical health" ecosystem.
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In just a few months, JD.com has fully developed its capital market.
JD.com has already broken through the boundaries of retail and expanded to many areas such as digital technology, logistics, and health.
Rome was not built in a day.
What force made JD.com break out?
It's technology.
The full-scale explosion of the JD system this year is due to Liu Qiangdong's long-term deployment of technology strategy over the years.
Time has to go back to 2004, when JD.com was just transitioning to online, and within a month, the website pages were hacked.
The hacker left a few big words on the page-"Jingdong webmaster is a big idiot".
Because of the hacker's ridicule, technology has completely become a big obsession of Jingdong founder Liu Qiangdong.
After that, JD.com quickly hired its first programmer and started writing its own e-commerce program.
Four years later, the average daily order volume of JD.com has changed from more than 10 orders to more than 5,000 orders, and the JD.com website has undergone a major revision.
In 2008, the Jingdong technical team rented a villa in the outskirts of Beijing and developed it for three months. They got up at five or six o'clock in the morning to write codes, and went to bed at one or two o'clock in the evening to expand the back-end design transaction order capacity to 100,000 orders.
After the launch of JD’s new system in November, the site’s order volume immediately exceeded 10,000.
In 2013, JD.com removed the word "Mall" and changed from "JD.com Mall" to "JD.com". The company's positioning is to rely on technology to provide supply chain services. E-commerce platforms, financial platforms, logistics platforms and technology platforms cannot be separated.
In the future, JD will no longer be a pure e-commerce company.
At the beginning of 2017, Liu Qiangdong shouted the slogan "Technology! Technology! Technology!" and announced that JD.com was fully transforming into technology.
"JD has been more than just an e-commerce company from the beginning. In the past ten years, we have done industrial Internet work in the retail industry." Liao Jianwen, Chief Strategy Officer of JD Group, believes that "JD’s logic is very simple, based on retail The accumulation of the industrial capabilities of the sector, and use these accumulated capabilities to reconstruct the value chain of other industries."
The use of Internet technology to reshape many industries such as retail, logistics, healthcare, finance, and urban public services is precisely the industrial layout of several major sectors of JD.com, such as JD Retail, JD Logistics, JD Health, and JD Digital.
All this comes from Liu Qiangdong's belief in technology.
Xu Lei, CEO of JD Retail Group, believes that the retail industry has always been an industry that positively interacts with technological development, especially online retail, which is highly technology-related and even technology-driven.
Therefore, JD Retail uses technology to drive retail innovation, runs through the entire consumer shopping process, and promotes a comprehensive upgrade of user experience.
JD Retail is accelerating its progress toward intelligence based on digitalization.
Chen Shengqiang, CEO of JD Digital, once said that it is necessary to establish a technological lead at all costs, and there is no upper limit on technology investment.
At present, JD Digital's R&D and professionals account for nearly 70%.
According to the projections of the prospectus, most of JD.com's revenue comes from technical services.
In the first half of 2020, the company's investment in technology research and development accounted for nearly 16%, more than twice that of Ant Group.
JD Health is based on the strategic positioning of "a health management platform with supply chain as the core, medical services as the starting point, and digital-driven user life cycle and full scenarios", and has achieved the widest and most complete "Internet + healthcare" in the industry. Healthy” layout.
JD Logistics has built 28 large-scale intelligent logistics parks "Asia One" across the country and more than 70 unmanned warehouses of different levels, forming the largest smart warehouse group in Asia at present, with 5G, blockchain, artificial intelligence , Cloud computing, IoT and other fields have carried out a large number of innovative research and development, formed rich applications in logistics scenarios, and took the lead in establishing the world's first 5G smart logistics park.
In the first half of 2020, JD.com has invested 7.54 billion yuan in technology research and development, becoming one of the companies that have invested the most in technology among Chinese companies for several consecutive quarters.
At present, the number of employees in the JD Group's R&D system has exceeded 18,000, and talents with a master's degree or above accounted for more than 80%. In 2019, the number of patent applications exceeded 3,651.
Regardless of technical investment or technical strength, JD is in the first camp of domestic Internet companies.
The past two decades have been the era of the consumer Internet, and technology is mainly used to enhance the consumer-oriented user experience.
The future is the era of the industrial Internet, and technology will be mainly used to help industrial partners achieve digital and intelligent upgrades.
The investment in technology in the past years has made JD.com the closest company to the industry and the most industrial Internet company.
On the future-oriented track, JD is undoubtedly in the leading position.