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Hunan, JD.com Inc. Sign Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement

Editor:张焕勤
Source:湖南省政府门户网站英文版
Updated:2017-11-07 11:09:46

  On November 4, the People’s Government of Hunan Province and JD.com Incorporation signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement in Changsha. JD.com Inc. is China’s largest online retailer and its biggest overall retailer. Before the signing ceremony, CPC Hunan Provincial Committee Deputy Secretary and Hunan Governor Xu Dazhe met with Liu Qiangdong, chairman and CEO of JD.com. Vice Governor He Baoxiang and Secretary General Wang Qun attended.

  Vice Governor He, on behalf of the Hunan Government, signed the agreement with JD.com. Governor Xu and CEO Liu witnessed the signing ceremony.

  Under the cooperation agreement, the two sides will jointly build a large, informationized, and modern trading and logistics base in Hunan and develop an e-commerce industrial system with perfect functions, high added value, and strong competitiveness. JD.com Inc. will see Hunan as a key investment and development area and carry out extensive cooperation with Hunan in the fields of smart logistics distribution system; rural e-commerce; e-commerce training and innovation and entrepreneurship cooperation; cross-border e-commerce; "Internet +" new economy; as well as "Internet + medicine and health", "Internet + finance", "Internet + government public service", "Internet + commerce", "Internet + B2B business", and "Internet + tourism".

  Governor Xu Dazhe hoped the two sides would take this opportunity to promote more projects implementation, so as to help Hunan achieve its goal of alleviating poverty, integrating urban and rural development, and promoting more Hunan products to the world. Hunan will, as always, provide quality services and a favorable environment for enterprise development.

  Liu Qiangdong said JD.com would give full play to its own advantages and earnestly implement the cooperation agreement. “We will further increase the investment in driverless car industry and smart logistics in Hunan, and help Hunan informatization construction and economic and social development.” He added.

  At the signing ceremony, the Xiangtan Municipal People’s Government and the JD.com Inc. also signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement on "Internet +" new ventures.