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CEO of JD Retail Xu Lei Promoted to President of JD.com

Sep 06, 2021, 12:21pm2021/09/06 20:14:02 Pandaily

Major Chinese e-commerce company JD.com<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> announced on September 6 the appointment of Xu Lei, the former CEO of JD Retail, as the new president of the company. Xu will be responsible for day-to-day operations and the collaborative development of various business units within JD.com<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder />, and will continue to report to Chairman and CEO Richard Qiangdong Liu.

The company also released in a report for the HKEx that Xin Lijun, former CEO of JD Health<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder />, was appointed as the new CEO of JD Retail, while Jin Enlin, former head of the Medicine Department of JD Health<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder />, has now become the CEO of JD Health<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder />.

After Xu Lei’s promotion, Richard Qiangdong Liu will devote more time to formulating the company’s long-term strategies, mentoring younger management and contributing to the revitalization of rural areas.

JD.com<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> noted that in the last 12 years since he joined the company – and especially since he became CEO of JD Retail in July 2018 – Xu Lei has established the business philosophy of “trust-based and customer-centric value creation,” and has led JD Retail to achieve high-quality growth for three consecutive years.

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Xin Lijun joined JD.com<img decoding="async" class="trade-card__loading" layout="fixed" height="50" width="50" src="https://assets.pandaily.com/uploads/2021/12/loading.png" placeholder /> in October 2012, and has successfully established the firm’s health business from scratch since taking charge in 2019. In addition, Jin Enlin led the medicine team in achieving sustained high growth.

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