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Related party transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
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, 2022:
 
Name of related parties
 
Relationship with the Group
Tencent and its subsidiaries (“Tencent Group”)(*)
 
A shareholder of the Group
Dada and its subsidiaries (“Dada Group”)(**)
 
An investee of the Group
JD Technology (***)
 
An investee of the Group, and controlled by the Founder
Property Funds
 
Investees of the Group
ATRenew and its subsidiaries (“ATRenew Group”)
 
An investee of the Group
 
(*)
In
March 2022, Tencent completed a distribution of approximately
460
 
million Class A ordinary shares of the Company owned by Tencent to its shareholders. As of March 31, 2022, Tencent’s shareholding in the Company was approximately 2.3% and Tencent had no significant influence over the Company. As a result, Tencent Group was not considered
as
the Group’s related party since then.
(**)
Dada became the subsidiary of the Company since February 28, 2022 as disclosed in Note 7. As a result, Dada Group was not considered
 as
the Group’s related party since then.
(***)
JD Technology became an investee of the Group since June 2020 (Note 6).
(a) The Group entered into the following transactions with the major related parties:
 
Transactions
  
For the year ended December 31,
 
 
  
2020
 
  
2021
 
  
2022
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
(RMB in millions)
 
Revenues:
  
  
  
Commission from cooperation on advertising business with Tencent Group(*)
     355        248        44  
Services provided and products sold to Tencent Group(*)
     375        553        77  
Services provided and products sold to Dada Group
     179        523        135  
Services provided and products sold to ATRenew Group
     664        894        806  
Services provided and products sold to JD Technology
     598        882        1,044  
Operating expenses:
                          
Services received and purchases from Tencent Group(*)
     3,226        5,010        1,314  
Services received from Dada Group
     2,200        1,087        212  
Payment processing and other services received from JD Technology
     6,945        8,762        11,494  
Lease and property management services received from Property Funds
     838        1,180        1,249  
Services received from ATRenew Group
     32        31        4  
Other income:
                          
Income from
non-compete
agreement with Dada Group
     82        77        13  
Interest income from loans provided to JD Technology
     31        253        301  
Interest income from loans provided to Property Funds
     49        39        43  
 
(*)
Please refer to Note 23 for more details of strategic cooperation with Tencent Group.
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evenues from related parties, excluding those from the major related parties as stated above, represented approximately 0.15%, 0.24% and 0.26% of total net revenues of the Group for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2021 and 2022, respectively. Transactions with related parties included in operating expenses, excluding those with the major related parties as stated above, represented 0.28%, 0.17% and 0.13% of total operating expenses of the Group for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2021 and 2022, respectively.
 
 
(b) The Group had the following balances with the major related parties:
 
 
  
As of December 31,
 
 
  
2021
 
  
2022
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
(RMB in millions)
 
Due from Tencent Group
     1,956         
Due from JD Technology
                 
Loans provided to JD Technology
 
(*)
     2,876        3,378  
Other payables to JD Technology
     (416      (637 )
Due from Property Funds
                 
Loans provided to Property Funds
 
(*)
     769        1,746  
Other receivables from Property Funds
     87        1,068  
Due from ATRenew Group
     —          22  
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Total
     5,272        5,577  
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Due to Dada Group
     (337       
Due to ATRenew Group
     (45       
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Total
     (382       
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Deferred revenues in relation to traffic support, marketing and promotion services to be provided to Dada Group
     (83       
Deferred revenues in relation to traffic support, marketing and promotion services to be provided to ATRenew Group
     (1,038      (610
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Total
     (1,121      (610 )
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Other liabilities in relation to
non-compete
obligation to Dada Group
     (101       
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Total
     (101       
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
(*)
In relation to the loans provided to JD Technology and Property Funds, the Group charged JD Technology and Property 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, 2021 and 2022, the Group recorded amount due from related parties other than the major related parties as stated above of RMB492 million and RMB565 million, which represented approximately 2.11% and 1.58% of the Group’s total accounts receivable, net and prepayments and other current assets, respectively. As of December 31, 2021 and 2022, 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 RMB137 million and RMB488 million, which represented approximately 0.07% 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:
Based on a series of agreements signed on January 1, 2016, JD Technology 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 Technology 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 Technology were RMB493 million, RMB77 million and RMB237 million for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2021 and 2022, respectively. In connection with the consumer financing business, JD Technology charged the Group RMB1,721 million, RMB1,985 million and RMB1,627 million, for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2021 and 2022 for payment processing services provided to the Group, respectively, which are included in “payment processing and other services received from JD Technology” stated above.
The Group transferred certain financial assets to JD Technology with or without recourse at fair value. The accounts receivable transferred without recourse were RMB33,406 million, RMB43,299 million and RMB50,282 million for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2021 and 2022, respectively, and were derecognized.
In 2022, the Group also transferred to JD Technology certain equipment amounted to RMB1,462 million.
Mr. Richard Qiangdong Liu, the Group’s Chairman of the board since the Group’s inception and the Chief Executive Officer since the Group’s inception to April 2022, 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.