From September 21 to 23, the Jiangsu E-Commerce Innovation and Development Conference took place at the Nanjing International Exhibition Center. Organized by the provincial e-commerce association under the theme "Harnessing the E-Commerce Wave to Drive Industrial Growth," the event explored how artificial intelligence can unlock new pathways for the e-commerce sector.
During the cooperation signing segment at the conference's opening ceremony, JD Industrial (07618) formalized a strategic partnership with Aiant (Changzhou) Precision Machinery Co., Ltd. The two parties officially launched the "Industrial Goods B2B Empowerment Project," marking JD Industrial's entry into the construction of a digital service ecosystem for industrial product transactions. Under this initiative, JD Industrial will deploy its product database, intelligent fulfillment capabilities, and data operations expertise to regional industrial enterprises and industry clusters. By connecting suppliers with manufacturers across the entire supply-demand chain, the project aims to integrate online trading, centralized procurement, and smart fulfillment for industrial goods. This integration is expected to help manufacturing firms cut procurement costs and enhance overall supply chain efficiency.
Jiangsu stands as a manufacturing powerhouse, with the province's manufacturing value-added output reaching 4.77 trillion yuan in 2025. This figure accounts for 13.8% of the national total and 33.5% of the province's GDP, both ranking first nationwide. Additionally, Jiangsu has led the country in the manufacturing high-quality development index for five consecutive years. The province's sheer manufacturing scale and diverse industry categories mean that procurement chains for industrial goods are lengthy and supplier networks are fragmented. Consequently, manufacturers in Jiangsu are demonstrating a growing demand for online transactions, centralized purchasing, and intelligent fulfillment solutions.
As a leading industrial supply chain technology and services enterprise in China, JD Industrial has been actively constructing a "digital highway" for the intelligent industrial supply chain across Jiangsu. Leveraging its "One Product, Four Endpoints" capability, the company connects large enterprises, small and medium-sized businesses, micro-enterprises, and overseas markets, enabling upstream industrial goods suppliers to broaden their sales channels, precisely match market demand, and improve supply-demand coordination efficiency. At the same time, through its integrated digital-physical industrial supply chain solutions, JD Industrial is assisting Jiangsu manufacturers in reducing procurement costs, boosting supply chain operational efficiency, and transitioning industrial procurement from fragmented, inefficient practices to transparent, intelligent, and digitally managed operations.
By deeply integrating its platform resources with local industrial belts and clusters, JD Industrial is charting a replicable digital transformation path for the upgrade of Jiangsu's industrial supply chain. In recent years, the company has undertaken extensive supply chain digitalization initiatives across multiple cities within the province. In early 2026, JD Industrial signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with the Suyu District of Suqian, leading to the simultaneous launch of the province's first city flagship store and an industrial supply chain innovation service center. This move facilitates the integration of local industrial enterprises into JD Industrial's supply chain ecosystem.
In Kunshan, Suzhou, the first park-based store of JD Hardware City opened in the Huaqiao Economic Development Zone. This outlet combines an online product pool featuring over 50 million SKUs with an offline model of localized services and instant fulfillment, achieving a two-hour delivery response capability within a three-kilometer radius. In the steel sector, JD Industrial has established a strategic partnership with Zhangjiagang Yonggang Group focused on the digital transformation of procurement supply chains. Through AI-powered material identification and intelligent matching capabilities, the collaboration is working to build high-quality datasets for the steel industry. In September 2025, JD Industrial also signed a strategic agreement with the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, covering cooperation in robotics industry supply chain development, the construction of a digital procurement platform for industrial goods, and the digital transformation of manufacturing supply chains, aiming to create a model of intelligent supply chains for Nanjing.
JD Industrial's sustained involvement in Jiangsu has carved out a complete development trajectory, progressing from government-enterprise strategic coordination to deep cultivation within industrial belts, and finally to targeted empowerment for small and medium-sized enterprises. The signing of this latest agreement further extends the "digital highway" to more industrial parks and businesses, establishing a benchmark for supply chain collaboration that merges "Made in Jiangsu" initiatives with the broader e-commerce ecosystem.