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Related party transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Related party transactions  
Related party transactions
 
31. Related party transactions
The table below sets forth the major related parties and their relationships with the Group as of December 31, 2020:
 
Name of related parties
  
Relationship with the Group
Tencent and its subsidiaries (“Tencent Group”)
  
A shareholder 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 investee of the Group, and controlled by the Founder
Yixin and its subsidiaries (“Yixin Group”) (**)
  
An investee of the Group
Core Fund and Core Fund II (“Core Funds”)
  
Investees of the Group
AiHuiShou and its subsidiaries (“AiHuiShou Group”)
  
An investee of the Group
 
(*)
JD Digits became an investee of the Group since June 2020 (Note 6).
(**)
As the Group had no significant influence over Bitauto Group, Tuniu Group and Yixin Group and no longer served as the major vendor of such investees, such investees were not considered the Group’s related parties since the quarter ended December 31, 2020. 
(a) The Group entered into the following transactions with the major related parties:
 
Transactions
  
For the year ended December 31,
 
    
2018
    
2019
    
2020
 
    
RMB’000
    
RMB’000
    
RMB’000
 
Revenues:
                          
Commission from cooperation on advertising business with Tencent Group(***)
     345,186        287,926        354,982  
Services provided and products sold to Tencent Group(***)
     276,728        398,700        374,616  
Services provided and products sold to Dada Group
     122,326        132,585        179,455  
Services provided and products sold to AiHuiShou Group
     8,781        349,257        663,802  
Traffic support, marketing and promotion services provided to Bitauto Group
     608,844        606,593        164,528  
Traffic support, marketing and promotion services provided to Tuniu Group
     132,008        131,621        82,939  
Services provided and products sold to JD Digits
     449,093        342,270        598,446  
Operating expenses:
                          
Services received and purchases from Tencent Group(***)
     1,175,849        2,222,196        3,225,924  
Services received from Dada Group
     938,627        1,565,470        2,200,291  
Payment processing and other services received from JD Digits
     3,930,847        4,980,748        6,945,128  
Lease and property management services received from Core Funds
     —          476,001        838,385  
Services received from AiHuiShou Group
     —          10,467        31,830  
Other income:
                          
Income from
non-compete
agreement with Dada Group
     78,771        82,123        82,167  
Interest income from loans provided to JD Digits
     179,556        40,632        31,006  
Interest income from loans provided to Core Funds
     —          75,496        48,872  
 
(***)
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 and 2,938,584 of the Company’s Class A ordinary shares were issued in May 2019 and May 2020, respectively.
Revenues from related parties, excluding those from the major related parties as stated above, represented approximately 0.06%, 0.13% and 0.12% of total net revenues of the Group for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2019, and 2020, respectively. Transactions with related parties included in operating expenses, excluding those with the major related parties as stated above, represented 0.14%, 0.20% and 0.28% of total operating expenses of the Group for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2019, and 2020, respectively.
(b) The Group had the following balances with the major related parties:
 
    
As of December 31,
 
    
2019
    
2020
 
    
RMB’000
    
RMB’000
 
Due from Tencent Group
     1,128,102        791,079  
Due from JD Digits
                 
Loans provided to JD Digits (****)
     365,089        2,706,855  
Other receivables from JD Digits
     1,363,479        1,359,315  
Due from Core Funds
                 
Loans provided to Core Funds(****)
     579,118        1,045,293  
Other receivables from Core Funds
     569,832        614,559  
Due from AiHuiShou Group
     —          5,216  
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Total
     4,005,620        6,522,317  
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Due to Tuniu Group
     (2,133      —    
Due to Dada Group
     (208,123      (497,903
Due to AiHuiShou Group
     (17,504      —    
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Total
     (227,760      (497,903
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Deferred revenues in relation to traffic support, marketing and promotion services to be provided to Bitauto Group
     (164,528      —    
Deferred revenues in relation to traffic support, marketing and promotion services to be provided to Tuniu Group
     (82,939      —    
Deferred revenues in relation to traffic support, marketing and promotion services to be provided to Dada Group
     (207,096      (144,968
Deferred revenues in relation to traffic support, marketing and promotion services to be provided to AiHuiShou Group
     (1,899,099      (1,468,181
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Total
     (2,353,662      (1,613,149
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Other liabilities in relation to
non-compete
obligation to Dada Group
     (276,976      (181,340
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Total
     (276,976      (181,340
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
(****)
In relation to the loans provided to JD Digits and Core Funds, the Group charged JD Digits and Core Funds 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, 2019 and 2020, the Group recorded amount due from related parties other than the major related parties as stated above of RMB228,447,000 and RMB387,472,000, which represented approximately 2.22% and 2.87% of the Group’s total accounts receivable, net and prepayments and other current assets, respectively. As of December 31, 2019 and 2020, 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 RMB279,769,000 and RMB87,421,000, which represented approximately 0.20% and 0.05% 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:
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 RMB242,473,000, RMB189,007,000 and RMB492,703,000 for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively. In connection with the consumer financing business, JD Digits charged the Group RMB1,055,239,000, RMB1,284,955,000 and RMB1,721,007,000, for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2019 and 2020 for payment processing services provided to the Group, respectively, which are included in “payment processing and other services received 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 RMB1,387,774,000, nil and nil for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively, which were not derecognized. The accounts receivable transferred without recourse were RMB9,854,493,000, RMB24,585,577,000 and RMB33,406,112,000 for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2019 and 2020, 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.