China Innovation Visits arranges visits to JD Logistics' Beijing Asia No.1 smart logistics park in Daxing for organised business and institutional groups. The ideal group size is 10–20. Programmes are priced for groups, and larger groups are usually more cost-effective; individuals and smaller groups are welcome to inquire, and their per-person rate is higher than the group rate. The standard format is half a day: a guided walk through the sand-table hall, the warehouse viewing corridor, the 5G exhibition area and the Tianlang goods-to-person system, followed by a themed session with a JD Logistics manager. Access to individual zones depends on the host's approval, dates and itinerary. Contact us with your group size, dates and learning goals to check feasibility and receive a proposed itinerary.
Key takeaways
Beijing Asia No.1 is an operating warehouse, not a corporate showroom. It opened in 2017 in Daxing and has a daily order-processing capacity of more than 100,000 parcels for Beijing, Tianjin, Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei and Inner Mongolia.
The half-day programme runs in two halves. The first is the working floor: an automated high-bay warehouse with stacker cranes, a Dilang AGV fleet doing goods-to-person picking, and a cross-belt sorter rated at 24,000 parcels an hour at a stated accuracy above 99.99 percent. The second explains it: the park sand table, a 5G exhibition area covering 5G, AI and IoT with the JD Vision data wall, and a warehouse viewing corridor.
It was the first smart logistics park in China built with 5G coverage throughout, which is why the 5G exhibition area is a standing part of the route rather than an add-on.
The seated half of the day is a themed session with a JD Logistics manager or park specialist — network layout, cost and efficiency, and the shift toward AI and unmanned operations — with time for the group's own questions.
We arrange the programme end to end, including host introduction, scheduling on the Chinese side and English interpretation on site.
Key visit details
Where the visit is held
Location — the JD Logistics Asia No.1 park in Daxing district, on Beijing's southern edge. The programme is contained within one site: the sand-table and exhibition area, the warehouse viewing corridor, the 5G exhibition area and a meeting room for the themed session.
Getting there — Daxing sits roughly an hour from central Beijing depending on traffic, and the park is a working logistics site rather than a city-centre campus. We plan transport as part of the programme, including hotel pickup.
Format and duration
Duration — Half a day is the standard format, running from the arrival briefing through the walk and the themed session. The two halves of the walk are timed at roughly 55 and 45 minutes on the standing itinerary.
Format — A guided walk led by park staff, desk-based exhibits at the sand table and 5G area, an elevated viewing corridor over the operating floor, and a themed presentation followed by open discussion.
Who the programme suits
Best suited to — Supply-chain and logistics teams; manufacturing and retail businesses running their own distribution or fulfilment operations; automation and warehouse-equipment suppliers; investors and analysts assessing how far robotics has moved from demonstration to paid deployment at scale; and delegations studying digital transformation in China's e-commerce infrastructure.
Main themes — Automated storage and retrieval, goods-to-person picking, high-speed parcel sorting, 5G and IoT in warehouse operations, network and inventory planning, and green logistics.
Booking, group size and site rules
Booking — Around 30 days in advance is the practical lead time, because the programme sits inside an operating facility and needs internal scheduling. The programme is best suited to groups of 10–20 participants.
Visiting requirements — This is a live warehouse on a working shift. Photography and recording are restricted in parts of the operating floor and follow the park's rules of the day, which we confirm before you travel. Walking routes, group size per guide and any personal protective equipment are set by the host.
What JD Logistics is, and what it operates
JD Logistics, Inc. (HKEX: 2618) is a separately listed company from JD.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: JD; HKEX: 9618). JD Logistics owns and runs the warehousing, sorting and delivery network; JD.com runs the retail platform that sits on top of it. The site described here is a JD Logistics facility. It is not a JD.com headquarters programme, and it is not a JD technology software demonstration.
The company's proposition is one-day and next-day delivery at national scale, and the Asia No.1 parks are where that promise is physically made. The Beijing park is one node in a network of Asia No.1 sites across China's major cities, and its job is medium and small parcels for North China. That is the reason to stand inside it: the number that matters to a delegation is not the size of the building but the fact that the automation is carrying live commercial volume, on a shift, for a region of well over 100 million people.
JD Logistics also builds and operates its own robot family rather than only buying automation. The line-up runs from goods-to-person picking through handling, transport and last-mile delivery, and the scheduling layer that coordinates it decides vehicle routing, inventory distribution and replenishment. What a delegation can actually judge on site is where that system still needs people.
Inside Beijing Asia No.1
The route has five stops, and the order matters: the first two frame the network, the next two show it running, and the last explains what the company is doing about its footprint.
The sand table and logistics-technology exhibits open the visit. Park staff walk the group through the Asia No.1 layout, its position in the wider national network, and the models of the self-developed equipment the group is about to see in operation. It is the one part of the morning that gives a delegation a map before it sees the territory.
The JD logistics culture wall and the warehouse viewing corridor come next. The wall covers the group's operating history and its stated principles; the corridor is where the visit stops being a briefing. From the viewing route the group sees the real production environment and how the warehouse is managed and instrumented, including how front-line roles are organised around the automation rather than replaced wholesale by it.
The 5G exhibition area is the third stop, covering intelligent screens and hardware, the company's work on 5G, AI and IoT, and the JD Vision data wall that puts the park's live operating numbers on screen. This is the one part of the route with no equivalent at most logistics sites, and it is the reason the park is worth a trip even for teams that already run automated warehouses.
The OSR working area and the Tianlang system come fourth. The group walks into the picking hall to watch the shuttle-based goods-to-person system run at close range — the format in which a picker stays at a station and the goods travel to them. Seeing it at working speed is the most common item delegates ask to repeat.
The Qingliu programme closes the walk, covering green supply chain practice. It is a short stop, but it answers a question supply-chain and ESG teams reliably raise: what a network this size does about packaging, energy and vehicle emissions.
What different teams take away
Operations and supply-chain leaders tend to leave with the same short list: how the specification was phased in rather than installed in one move, how picking labour is deployed once goods travel to the person, and what the failure modes look like at real volume.
Technical and automation teams focus on the equipment itself — high-bay storage and retrieval, shuttle and AGV coordination, and the accuracy figure on the sorting line — and on the question of how much of it is standard product versus site-specific engineering.
Investors and analysts use the visit differently. The useful question is not whether the technology works, because the room answers that, but where the boundary sits between an impressive line and a paid deployment at national scale.
Teams looking at digital transformation in general — manufacturing, retail, distribution — take the network view: how a fulfilment footprint is placed to serve a multi-province region, and what that implies for inventory positioning and service guarantees.
ESG and packaging leads take the green logistics stop, which covers what is actually standard practice on site rather than a pilot.
Sample visit programme
This is an indicative half-day programme. The final arrangement depends on the group's objectives, the host's confirmation and the day's schedule.
| Segment | Time | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Arrival, check-in and pre-visit briefing | 08:45–09:00 | Meet at the park assembly point and enter as a group. A short orientation on JD Logistics and on what the group will see, with the visit rules for the operating floor confirmed. |
| Guided visit to Asia No.1 smart logistics park — operating side | 09:00–10:00 | The automated high-bay warehouse with stacker cranes moving through the racking, the Dilang AGV fleet running goods-to-person picking, and the cross-belt sorter handling 24,000 parcels an hour at a stated accuracy above 99.99 percent. |
| Guided visit to Asia No.1 smart logistics park — interpretation side | 10:00–10:40 | The park sand table and logistics-technology models, the culture wall and warehouse viewing corridor, the 5G exhibition area covering 5G, AI and IoT hardware, and the JD Vision data wall showing the park's live operating data. |
| Themed session and open discussion | 10:40–12:00 | "JD Smart Logistics in Practice" — network layout, efficiency and cost optimisation, and the move toward AI and unmanned operations — presented by a JD Logistics manager or park specialist, followed by Q&A. |
The timings and programme are subject to final confirmation with the host.
Practical notes for the day
It is a warehouse, so the practical items are worth stating plainly. The group walks, and part of the route is elevated and overlooks the operating floor; comfortable shoes matter more than usual.
Cameras and recording equipment are restricted on parts of the operating floor, and the rules are set by the host rather than by us. We confirm what is and is not permitted before you travel, so nobody plans a photo record of a section that cannot be photographed.
The morning finishes at midday, which leaves the afternoon free. Groups studying supply chains often pair the visit with a consumer-electronics or EV plant elsewhere in the city; groups studying robotics pair it with a Beijing robotics or autonomous-driving programme.
Questions before a JD Logistics Beijing visit
Is this a visit to JD.com or to JD Logistics? JD Logistics. JD Logistics, Inc. is a separately listed company (HKEX: 2618) that operates the warehouse, sorting and delivery network. This programme is built on its Asia No.1 park in Daxing, Beijing. Tell us if you also want a JD.com element and we will say clearly what can and cannot be arranged.
What do we actually see on site? The park sand table and logistics-technology exhibits, the culture wall and warehouse viewing corridor, the automated high-bay warehouse with its stacker cranes, the Dilang AGV goods-to-person fleet, the cross-belt sorter in operation, the 5G exhibition area with the JD Vision data wall. The route follows the parcel flow from inbound to dispatch.
How far in advance should we arrange it? We recommend planning at least 30 days ahead, and our arrangements are normally built around groups of 10 or more, which is the size most industrial hosts are set up to receive. Smaller groups can sometimes be accommodated — tell us your numbers and we will confirm what is possible.
Do we need to work in logistics or e-commerce? No. The site is a useful benchmark for any team running a large distribution or fulfilment operation, and for investors and analysts trying to judge the distance between a robotics demonstration and a paid deployment at scale.
Is English interpretation provided? Yes. English interpretation on site is part of how the programme is run.
Can we combine it with other Beijing programmes? Yes. Daxing is on the southern side of the city, so the visit combines well with a half-day elsewhere in Beijing or with a wider itinerary. See the Beijing tech tour page for the programmes we run in the city, and the JD Logistics Dongguan Asia No.1 page if your group is travelling south as well.
The programme is built around the host's operating schedule, and the visiting rules above reflect how the park normally receives groups. Where a delegation's requirements fall outside that, we will tell you so before you commit rather than after.
Arranging your JD Logistics Beijing visit
We arrange the visit for you end to end: the introduction to the host, the scheduling on the Chinese side and English interpretation on site. Tell us your dates, your delegation size and what you want to see, and we will confirm what can be arranged. Start with your requirements, or browse the full company visit directory for the rest of the network.