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Drones for e-commerce have long been an experiment led by Amazon. Time will tell if JD.com can implement the service more quickly

JD.com CEO Richard Liu revealed in a conference that JD, China’s second largest e-commerce platform, will start using warehouse robots and drones.

“JD.com is focusing on three things: e-commerce, finance and advanced technologies,” said Liu. “But technology is at the core of the development of e-commerce and finance.”

Liu said that JD has also established a new project team for upgrading new services. The team is now exploring ways to complete the commercial application of smart robots and drones and build a one-stop management system, Tencent News reported on Wednesday.

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Drone services for delivering goods will be used to solve the high logistics costs in China’s vast rural areas. The e-commerce market in China’s rural areas is highly fragmented, which presents a major obstacle to its development in these regions.

Liu also disclosed that JD.com is planning to build fully-automated distribution centers run by smart industrial robots.

China’s largest e-commerce platform, Tmall, installed Geek+ smart robots at its Tianjin distribution center in late March. Smart technology is clearly becoming a preference for e-commerce platforms in China.

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Wanbin is a writer at AllChinaTech. He’s excited to be covering China’s tech sector as part of a fast-paced online news outfit. His areas of interest include tech trends and digital products that affect modern life. When he’s not obsessively scouring online news feeds, you can find him on the hardwood or the soccer pitch. Contact him: wanbin@allchinatech.com

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