# JD Logistics reported its goods-to-person automated warehousing in over 20 warehouses at end-2025, against a network of over 1,600 self-operated warehouses

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Date: 2026-03-05 · Stage: Deployment
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## Scope

China, from the company's own HKEX filing. The network is over 1,600 self-operated warehouses plus over 2,000 third-party cloud warehouses, with aggregate floor area above 34 million square metres. The 20-plus figure counts one specific system — its self-developed goods-to-person solution, which the company says entered nationwide replication in 2025 — so it is not a measure of how automated the whole network is; other sites run other equipment. The same filing reports over 1,000 unmanned vehicles in regular operation for transfers between delivery stations and delivery zones, and a first overseas automated warehouse in the UK. No headcount is given alongside these figures.

## Source

- JD Logistics — FY2025 annual results announcement, HKEX filing (first-party) — https://www.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2026/0305/2026030500918.pdf (primary source)

## What this means

The company describes 2025 as the year this system entered nationwide replication, and the number that reached nationwide replication is twenty-odd warehouses out of more than 1,600 it operates itself. That is what the leading edge of warehouse automation looks like from inside the operator's books: real, scaling, and still a small share of the buildings. The 1,000-plus unmanned vehicles sit at the other end, in station-to-zone transfers, which is the flattest and most repeatable movement in the chain.

## What it does not show yet

Twenty out of 1,600 is not an automation rate. Goods-to-person is one system; other sites run sorters, conveyors and shuttles that this figure does not count, so the ratio understates how much of the network is mechanised. In the other direction, the filing gives no headcount at all, so nothing here says whether the automated sites employ fewer people.

## How to verify it yourself

If you work in one of these buildings, find out whether yours runs goods-to-person or whether you still walk to the shelf, and ask what changed in units picked per hour when the equipment arrived. The pick rate before and after is the number that decides how many people the building needs, and it is measured on your own site, not nationally.


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