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Related party transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Related party transactions  
Related party transactions
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. Related party transactions
 
The table below sets forth the major related parties and their relationships with the Group as of December 31, 2019:
     
Name of related parties
 
Relationship with the Group
Tencent and its subsidiaries (“Tencent Group”)
 
A shareholder of the Group
Lexin and its subsidiaries (“Lexin Group”) (*)
 
An investee of the Group
Bitauto and its subsidiaries (“Bitauto Group”)
 
An investee of the Group
Tuniu and its subsidiaries (“Tuniu Group”)
 
An investee of the Group
Dada and its subsidiaries (“Dada Group”)
 
An investee of the Group
JD Digits
 
An entity and its subsidiaries controlled by the Founder
Yixin and its subsidiaries (“Yixin Group”)
 
An investee of the Group
Core Fund
 
An investee of the Group
AiHuiShou and its subsidiaries (“AiHuiShou Group”)
 
An investee of the Group
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(*)
As the Group was no longer the major vendor of Lexin Group and the Group had no significant influence on it, Lexin Group was not recognized as the Group’s related party in the years of 2018 and 2019.
 
 
(a) The Group entered into the following transactions with the major related parties:
 
                         
Transactions
 
For the year ended December 31,
 
 
2017
 
 
2018
 
 
2019
 
 
RMB
 
 
RMB
 
 
RMB
 
Revenues:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Services provided and products sold to Lexin Group
 
 
543,304
 
 
 
—  
 
 
 
 
Commission from cooperation on advertising business with Tencent Group
(**)
 
 
260,572
 
 
 
345,186
 
 
 
287,926
 
Services provided and products sold to Tencent Group(**)
 
 
31,505
 
 
 
276,728
 
 
 
398,700
 
Services provided and products sold to Dada Group
 
 
100,360
 
 
 
122,326
 
 
 
132,585
 
Services provided and products sold to AiHuiShou Group
 
 
 
 
 
8,781
 
 
 
349,257
 
Traffic support, marketing and promotion services provided to Bitauto
Group
 
 
609,055
 
 
 
608,844
 
 
 
606,593
 
Traffic support, marketing and promotion services provided to Tuniu Group
 
 
132,042
 
 
 
132,008
 
 
 
131,621
 
Services provided and products sold to JD Digits
 
 
271,813
 
 
 
449,093
 
 
 
342,270
 
Operating expenses:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Services received and purchases from Tencent Group(**)
 
 
674,727
 
 
 
1,175,849
 
 
 
2,222,196
 
Services received from Dada Group
 
 
694,207
 
 
 
938,627
 
 
 
1,565,470
 
Payment processing and other services received from JD Digits
 
 
2,936,416
 
 
 
3,930,847
 
 
 
4,980,748
 
Lease and property management services received from Core Fund
 
 
—  
 
 
 
—  
 
 
 
476,001
 
Services received from AiHuiShou Group
 
 
 —
 
 
 
 —
 
 
 
10,467
 
Other income:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Income from
non-compete
agreement with Dada Group
 
 
80,447
 
 
 
78,771
 
 
 
82,123
 
Interest income from loans provided to JD Digits
 
 
871,014
 
 
 
179,556
 
 
 
40,632
 
Interest income from loans provided to Core Fund
 
 
—  
 
 
 
—  
 
 
 
75,496
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(**) In March 2014, the Group entered into a series of agreements with Tencent and its affiliates pursuant to which the Group acquired 100% interests in Tencent’s Paipai and QQ Wanggou online marketplace businesses, a 9.9% stake in Shanghai Icson, logistics personnel and certain other assets. The Group also entered into a five-year strategic cooperation agreement and an eight-year
non-compete
agreement with Tencent. In April 2016, the Group acquired the remaining equity interest in Shanghai Icson by exercising the rights previously granted to the Group in March 2014.
 
 
 
 
On May 10, 2019, the Company renewed the strategic cooperation agreement with Tencent, for a period of three years starting from May 27, 2019. Tencent continued to offer the Group prominent level 1 and level 2 access points on its Weixin platform to provide traffic support, and the two parties also intend to continue to cooperate in a number of areas including communications, advertising and membership services, among others. As part of the total consideration, the Company agreed to issue to Tencent a certain number of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares for a consideration of approximately US$250 million at prevailing market prices at certain
pre-determined
dates during the three-year period, of which 8,127,302 Class A ordinary shares were issued in May 2019.
Revenues from related parties, excluding those from the major related parties as stated above, represented approximately 0.01%, 0.06% and 0.13% of total net revenues of the Group for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively. Transactions with related parties included in operating expenses, excluding those with the major related parties as stated above, represented 0.07%, 0.14% and 0.20% of total operating expenses of the Group for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively.
(b) The Group had the following balances with the major related parties:
 
As of December 31,
 
 
2017
 
 
2018
 
 
2019
 
 
RMB
 
 
RMB
 
 
RMB
 
Due from Tencent Group
 
 
595,105
 
 
 
862,781
 
 
 
1,128,102
 
Due from JD Digits
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Loans provided to JD Digits (***)
 
 
11,747,066
 
 
 
4,427,907
 
 
 
365,089
 
Other receivables from/(payables to) JD Digits
 
 
328,969
 
 
 
(525,669
)
 
 
1,363,479
 
Due from Core Fund
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Loans provided to Core Fund (***)
 
 
—  
 
 
 
—  
 
 
 
579,118
 
Other receivables from Core Fund
 
 
—  
 
 
 
—  
 
 
 
569,832
 
Due from AiHuiShou Group
 
 
—  
 
 
 
2,025
 
 
 
—  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total
 
 
12,671,140
 
 
 
4,767,044
 
 
 
4,005,620
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Due to Lexin Group
 
 
(1,367
)
 
 
—  
 
 
 
—  
 
Due to Tuniu Group
 
 
(5,451
)
 
 
(585
)
 
 
(2,133
)
Due to Dada Group
 
 
(7,378
)
 
 
(118,135
)
 
 
(208,123
)
Due to AiHuiShou Group
 
 
—  
 
 
 
—  
 
 
 
(17,504
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total
 
 
(14,196
)
 
 
(118,720
)
 
 
(227,760
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Deferred revenues in relation to traffic support, marketing and promotion services to be provided to Bitauto Group
 
 
(1,379,965
)
 
 
(771,121
)
 
 
(164,528
)
Deferred revenues in relation to traffic support, marketing and promotion services to be provided to Tuniu Group
 
 
(346,568
)
 
 
(214,560
)
 
 
(82,939
)
Deferred revenues in relation to traffic support, marketing and promotion services to be provided to Dada Group
 
 
(331,354
)
 
 
(269,225
)
 
 
(207,096
)
Deferred revenues in relation to traffic support, marketing and promotion services to be provided to AiHuiShou Group
 
 
—  
 
 
 
—  
 
 
 
(1,899,099
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total
 
 
(2,057,887
)
 
 
(1,254,906
)
 
 
(2,353,662
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Other liabilities in relation to
non-compete
obligation to Dada Group
 
 
(415,082
)
 
 
(354,236
)
 
 
(276,976
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Total
 
 
(415,082
)
 
 
(354,236
)
 
 
(276,976
)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(***)
In relation to the loans provided to JD Digits and Core Fund, the Group charged JD Digits and Core Fund based on fair market interest rate, and cash flows resulted from the loans were presented within investing activities in the consolidated statements of cash flows.
As of December 31,
 2017,
2018 and 2019, the Group recorded amount due from related parties other than the major related parties as stated above of
RMB21,621,
RMB265,421 and RMB228,447, which represented approximately
 0.12%,
1.77% and 2.22% of the Group’s total accounts receivable, net and prepayments and other current assets, respectively.
As of December 31, 2017, 2018
and 2019, the Group recorded amount due to related parties other than the major related parties and deferred revenues in relation to traffic support, marketing and promotion services to be provided to related parties
other than the major related parties
as stated above of
RMB
69,329,
RMB168,621 and RMB279,769, which represented approximately
 
0.07%,
0.15% and 0.20% of the Group’s total accounts payable, advance from customers, accrued expenses and other current liabilities, deferred revenues and other
non-current
liabilities, respectively.
(c) Other information related to related party transactions:
On October 27, 2017, to provide a temporary bridging finance to Yixin Group, the Group entered into an entrusted loan agreement with Yixin Group and an independent third-party PRC commercial bank whereby the Group lent a total of RMB1,000,000 to Yixin Group. The bridge loan was on normal commercial terms and Yixin Group repaid the loan and associated interest before December 31, 2017.
Based on a series of agreements signed on January 1, 2016, JD Digits will perform the credit risk assessment and other related services in relation to consumer financing business and obtain the rewards from such services, thus JD Digits will purchase the consumer financing receivables past due over certain agreed period of time from the Group at carrying values without recourse and also agree to bear other cost in direct relation to the consumer financing business to absorb the risks. In connection with the agreements, the total amount of
over-due
consumer financing receivable related to the consumer financing business transferred from the Group to JD Digits were RMB497,239, RMB242,473 and RMB189,007 for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively. In connection with the consumer financing business, JD Digits charged the Group RMB793,218, RMB1,055,239, and RMB1,284,955, for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2018 and 2019 for payment processing services provided to the Group, respectively, which are included in “payment processing and other services from JD Digits” stated above.
The Group also transferred certain financial assets to JD Digits with or without recourse at fair value. The accounts receivable transferred with recourse were RMB167,897, RMB1,387,774, and nil for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively, which were not derecognized
.
T
he accounts receivable transferred without recourse were RMB1,583,968, RMB9,854,493, and RMB24,585,577 for the years ended December 31, 2017, 2018 and 2019, respectively, and were derecognized.
Mr. Richard Qiangdong Liu, the Group’s Chairman of the board and the Chief Executive Officer, has purchased his own aircraft for both business and personal use. The use of the aircraft in connection with the performance of his duty as employee is free of charge to the Group, and the Group has agreed to assume the cost of maintenance, crew and operations of the aircraft relating to the use of the aircraft. Such maintenance and incidental costs were insignificant for all periods presented.
The terms of the agreements with the related parties are determined based on contracted prices negotiated with other parties in normal commercial terms.