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Related party transactions
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
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, 2023:
 
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,
 
 
  
2021
 
  
2022
 
  
2023
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
(RMB in millions)
 
Revenues:
         
Commission from cooperation on advertising business with Tencent Group
      248        44      —
*
Services provided and products sold to Tencent Group
      553        77      —
*
Services provided and products sold to Dada Group
      523        135      —
**
Services provided and products sold to ATRenew Group
      894        806        845  
Services provided and products sold to JD Technology
      882        1,044        1,696  
Operating expenses:
         
Services received and purchases from Tencent Group
      5,010        1,314      —
*
Services received from Dada Group
      1,087        212      —
**
Payment processing and other services received from JD Technology
      8,762        11,494        13,833  
Lease and property management services received from Property Funds
      1,180        1,249        1,681  
Services received from ATRenew Group
      31        4        —  
Other income:
         
Income from
non-compete
agreement with Dada Group
      77        13      —
**
 
Interest income from loans provided to JD Technology
      253        301        287  
Interest income from loans provided to Property Funds
      39        43        56  
Revenues from related parties, excluding those from the major related parties as stated above, represented approximately 0.24%, 0.26% and 0.12% of total net revenues of the Group for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively. Transactions with related parties included in operating expenses, excluding those with the major related parties as stated above, represented 0.17%, 0.13% and 0.12% of total operating expenses of the Group for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively.
 
 
(b)
The Group had the following balances with the major related parties:
 
    
As of December 31,
  
    
2022
     
2023
  
               
    
(RMB in millions)
  
Due from/(to) JD Technology
      
Loans provided to JD Technology (*
***
)
      3,378        50  
Other payables to JD Technology
      (637 )       (1,497 ) 
Due from Property Funds
      
Loans provided to Property Funds (*
***
)
      1,746        1,136  
Other receivables from Property Funds
      1,068        427  
Due from ATRenew Group
      22        53  
  
 
 
     
 
 
  
Total
      5,577        169  
  
 
 
     
 
 
  
Deferred revenues in relation to traffic support, marketing and promotion services to be provided to ATRenew Group
      (610 )       (182 ) 
  
 
 
     
 
 
  
 
(****)
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, 2022 and 2023, the Group recorded amount due from related parties other than the major related parties as stated above of RMB565 million and RMB498 million, which represented approximately 1.58% and 1.39% of the Group’s total accounts receivable, net and prepayments and other current assets, respectively. As of December 31, 2022 and 2023, 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 RMB488 million and RMB173 million, which represented approximately 0.20% and 0.07% 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 performs the credit risk assessment and other related services in relation to consumer financing business and obtain the returns from such services, and JD Technology purchases the consumer financing receivables past due over certain agreed period of time from the Group at carrying values without recourse and also agrees 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
past-due
consumer financing receivable related to the consumer financing business sold from the Group to JD Technology
were RMB77 million, RMB237 million and RMB240 million for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively. 
The Group transferred certain financial assets to JD Technology with or without recourse at fair value. The accounts receivable transferred without recourse were RMB43,299 million, RMB50,282 million and RMB55,028 million for the years ended December 31, 2021, 2022 and 2023, respectively, and were derecognized.
In 2022, the Group also sold 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.