On May 13, Siasun Robot & Automation Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Siasun") and Beijing JD Century Trading Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "JD.com") signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing. This marks another step forward in the more comprehensive and in-depth cooperation between Siasun and JD.com in the field of intelligent logistics. Their cooperation will become a key landmark event driving technological transformation of the logistics ecosystem and ushering in a new era of intelligent logistics in China.

Siasun's Market Director, Zhang Jin (left), and JD Group's Vice President and President of JDX Business Unit, Xiao Jun (right)

　　Handcrafted Industry Model, Ushering in the Era of Intelligent Logistics

　　Intelligent logistics is one of the three major themes of Industry 4.0 and is a crucial link connecting supply, manufacturing, and customers. Siasun, with its professional R&D personnel and advanced technical equipment, has invested significant time and resources to maintain continuous innovation in its intelligent logistics equipment technology. Siasun's independently developed intelligent logistics equipment products, while accumulating new products, fully demonstrate Siasun's leading position in the intelligent logistics field.

　　Over the years, Siasun's logistics system has maintained continuous application of its intelligent logistics system in the electricity, tire, tobacco, food, pharmaceutical, and rail transit industries. Its intelligent logistics complete sets of equipment have won numerous awards and honors in more than ten industries, including electricity, pharmaceuticals, and automobiles. In 2015, Siasun successfully established cooperative relationships with clients in the printing, new materials, and new energy sectors, opening up new application areas and maintaining its absolute competitive advantage in the domestic intelligent logistics field. Today, Siasun, with its superior technology, strong R&D background, and rich industry experience, has successfully expanded into the e-commerce industry. This strong alliance will surely propel the Chinese intelligent logistics industry to even greater heights.

JD Group CTO, Zhang Chen

　　JD.com is a leading e-commerce company in China. JD.com has always integrated its powerful logistics system with the "Internet+" concept. Its self-built logistics and delivery system is not only one of its core competitive advantages but also a benchmark for the industry in China and globally. In addition to serving its own products, JD.com also opens its powerful logistics and delivery capabilities to platform merchants. Its strong order fulfillment capabilities are increasingly recognized by platform merchants, and their demand for automated logistics is becoming increasingly high and urgent. This strategic cooperation agreement with Siasun for in-depth cooperation in the field of intelligent logistics is a major measure to meet this demand. Under the framework of the strategic cooperation, the two parties will cooperate on the application of robots in intelligent logistics, jointly promoting the application of automated logistics products and solutions. At the signing ceremony, JD.com Vice President Zhang Chen introduced that the strong alliance between JD.com and Siasun will explore an internationally advanced e-commerce logistics and warehousing operation model and achieve "global innovation, local practice".

　　As China's largest robotics technology company, Siasun represents the leading level of logistics robot technology R&D in China and the world. It has formed the design and production capabilities of complete sets of logistics equipment, including intelligent automated warehouses, warehouse robots, mobile robots, palletizing/depalletizing robots, high-speed high-precision stacking machines, high-speed sorting systems, intelligent conveying systems, and manufacturing execution systems, and can provide intelligent logistics system solutions for industry clients. It has wide applications in the domestic intelligent logistics field and possesses a deep understanding of customer needs.

　　"The era of using technological innovation and cutting-edge technology to drive the upgrading of the logistics industry has arrived." Siasun President Qu Daokui said, "The combination of JD.com's full-process logistics advantages and Siasun's R&D capabilities will surely produce industry-influencing technological achievements and create a new open and collaborative intelligent logistics ecosystem."

Siasun President, Qu Daokui

　　E-commerce, as a business model that has emerged in recent years, has presented newer, greater, and higher demands on the logistics field compared to manufacturing and traditional distribution enterprises. Logistics is basically composed of transportation, delivery, warehousing, packaging, handling and loading/unloading, distribution processing, and related logistics information. As a comprehensive intelligent logistics equipment supplier, Siasun has accumulated rich experience in the development, design, and production of complete sets of intelligent logistics systems. Moreover, by mastering core technologies and equipment, it possesses strong technical strength and market competitiveness in delivery, warehousing, packaging, handling and loading/unloading, distribution processing, and logistics information. Siasun's intelligent logistics equipment products have unique characteristics and advantages in adapting to the characteristics of e-commerce logistics—large quantities of goods, diverse varieties, multiple sizes, and frequent entry and exit—and meeting the extremely demanding requirements for speed, accuracy, and stability.

　　By building an open platform for intelligent logistics, JD.com will share with Siasun the data, experience, information systems, and Internet concepts accumulated over many years of practice in e-commerce logistics. This will promote more e-commerce business innovation and logistics product innovation between JD.com and Siasun, thereby building a unique competitive advantage.

　　Siasun President Qu Daokui also stated that given the industry status and influence of both parties, the strategic cooperation between Siasun and JD.com will have significant implications beyond the development of both companies, becoming a cooperative model jointly created by both parties. On the one hand, the strategic cooperation will play a positive guiding, driving, and demonstration role in the development of logistics in the e-commerce industry. On the other hand, since the product and solution capabilities of the intelligent logistics equipment industry will also make significant progress, the strategic cooperation also has a positive driving effect on the development of the logistics equipment industry.

　　About JD.com:

　　JD.com is China's leading self-operated e-commerce company and China's largest internet company by revenue. JD.com is committed to providing consumers with the best online shopping experience. Through rich and user-friendly websites and mobile clients, JD.com provides goods and services with a wide range of categories and excellent quality at competitive prices, and delivers them to consumers quickly and reliably. JD.com believes it has the largest logistics facilities in the national e-commerce industry. As of March 31, 2016, JD.com has seven major logistics centers nationwide, operates 209 large warehouses with a total area of approximately 4.3 million square meters, and has 5,987 delivery stations and self-pickup points, covering 2,493 districts and counties nationwide. JD.com is a member of the NASDAQ 100 Index.

　　About Siasun:

　　Siasun Robot & Automation Co., Ltd., affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is a high-tech listed company focusing on digital intelligent manufacturing equipment with robotics technology as its core. It is one of the manufacturers with the most complete range of robot products globally and the largest robotics industrialization base in China. Siasun currently has a research and innovation team of more than 2,000 people, forming a complete industrial value chain consisting of independent core technologies, core components, leading products, and industry system solutions. It is also upgrading its industrial strategy to encompass the entire digital and intelligent manufacturing process throughout the product lifecycle. Currently, the company's total market capitalization ranks among the top three in the international industry, and its growth rate is number one globally in the robotics industry!