Liu Qiangdong: In the future, we won't need delivery men at all, hoping to send 700,000 blue-collar brothers for training.

At the 2026 APEC Business Leaders China Forum hosted by Liu today, Liu Qiangdong, founder and chairman of JD Group, revealed that JD has recently proposed the "Nirvana Plan" internally, hoping to send the existing 700,000 couriers and other blue-collar workers at JD to schools for technical training in order to cope with the impact of AI and technological development. "In the future, it will be robots delivering goods, so there will be no need for couriers. It will definitely be robots delivering goods, but I don't want our 700,000 brothers to be left without food or work," Liu Qiangdong said. Therefore, JD has signed contracts with 120 schools nationwide to send them for training, so that they can carry out maintenance and repairs for robots in the future. "Machines may malfunction, and when they do, humans need to fix them. So we are turning blue-collar workers into white-collar workers, letting them live in offices without having to endure the hardships of going back and forth in the wind and rain," Liu Qiangdong said. As a company, if you have new technology, it should make human life better and work more interesting, rather than depriving people of their rights with technology.