Dada Nexus - Q2 2024

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Operator (participant)

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for standing by for Dada's second quarter twenty twenty-four earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode. After the management's prepared remarks, there will be a question and answer session. As a reminder, today's conference call is being recorded. I will now turn the meeting over to your host for today's call, Ms. Caroline Tong, Head of Investor Relations for Dada. Please proceed, Caroline.

Caroline Tong (Head of Investor Relations)

Thank you, Operator. Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining our second quarter 2024 earnings conference call. On the call today from Dada, we have Mr. Henry Jun Mao, CFO. Mr. Mao will talk about our operations, company highlights, and the financials. He will be available to answer your questions during the Q&A session. Before we begin, I'd like to remind you that this conference call contains forward-looking statements. Please refer to our latest safe harbor statement in the earnings press release on our IR site, which applies to this call. Also, during this call, we will discuss the non-GAAP financial measures. Please also refer to our earnings press release, which contains the reconciliation of non-GAAP measures to the comparable GAAP measures. Finally, please note that unless otherwise stated, all figures mentioned during this conference call are in RMB. It is now my pleasure to introduce our CFO, Mr.

Mao, Henry, please go ahead.

Henry Jun Mao (CFO)

Thank you, Caroline, and thank you all for joining us. In the second quarter of twenty twenty-four, we delivered high-quality results. For JD Now, both monthly transacting users and orders through the JD app recorded over 100% year-on-year growth in the quarter. Meanwhile, the penetration of JD Now among JD users continued to increase sequentially. For Dada Now, our local on-demand delivery platform, revenue growth in the first half of the year exceeded 50% year-on-year. Driven by the overall improvement in operational efficiency, our non-GAAP net loss margin narrowed sequentially in the second quarter. Specifically, Dada Group's total net revenues in the second quarter were RMB 2.3 billion. The year-on-year change was mainly due to the continued review and adjustments of the JD Now business, starting from the beginning of this year.

Net revenues from JD Now were RMB 912 million in the quarter. Net revenues from Dada Now increased by 47% year-on-year to RMB 1.4 billion. In the first half of the year, net revenues of Dada Now increased by 51% year-on-year to RMB 2.6 billion, mainly driven by the continuous expansion of new customers and the increased penetration of existing partners in our KA business. Non-GAAP net loss in the second quarter was RMB 142 million, sequentially net, improving by RMB 53 million. This was mainly due to our strategic refocusing on core businesses, which is gradually bearing fruit. Non-GAAP net loss ratio in the second quarter was 6.1%, sequentially narrowing by 1.8 percentage points. Now, let's go through the operating highlights for two platforms, JD Now and Dada Now.

Starting with the JD Now. After our brand update in May twenty twenty-four, we officially announced the first brand ambassador of JD Now in July, in an effort to further enhance our brand image. As witnessed by Olympic champion hurdler Liu Xiang, JD Now showcased its industry-leading delivery speed and deepened its brand image of quality merchandise and instant delivery. During the twenty twenty-four Paris Olympic Games, we conducted a series of brand promotion and marketing campaigns, echoing users' game watching and shopping enthusiasm, cheering on the Olympic athletes while providing users with on-demand shopping experience, with delivery as fast as nine minutes. For instance, we launched a bill waiving for celebration campaign, offering twenty twenty-four randomly selected orders free of charge every time Team China claimed a gold medal, and a late-night feast channel, providing the nighttime audience with rich selections of snacks and beverages.

We are pleased to see how well these efforts have resonated with our customers. In the second quarter, we remained focused on driving growth on the JD app, increasing user mindshare, as well as continuously enriching supply to better serve users' diverse needs for on-demand retail. On the demand side, we expanded the geographic coverage of the JD Now section on the JD app nationwide and accelerated penetration among JD Plus members to reach more JD users. We launched the new JD Now section in the center area of the JD app homepage in May 2024, enabling products and merchants on JD Now to gain incremental exposure.

Earlier in August, following our operations in the first batch of thirty-nine cities for more than two months, we further expanded the service coverage of the JD Now section nationwide, delivering more users with the convenient JD Now on-demand retail services right to their doorsteps. Meanwhile, we introduced exclusive benefits such as price discounts for JD Plus members to engage them to experience the convenient on-demand retail service of JD Now and gain their mind share. In June 2024, the number of daily average JD Plus members who placed orders on JD Now increased by 40% as compared with March 2024. On the supply side, we took initiatives on five fronts to comprehensively enhance our supply capability. In terms of store coverage, we continue to expand our product offering in existing categories such as convenience stores and consumer electronics.

In the convenience stores category, during this quarter, JD Now deepened its cooperation with Meiyijia, the largest convenience store operator in China in terms of store count, with over five thousand stores on board. In July, we launched over one thousand stores of internationally renowned convenience store brands, such as Lawson. In addition, in the consumer electronics category, to support the launch of the JD Now section, we made further progress in essential accessories to better meet users' immediate needs. For instance, we initiated new partnerships with leading brands such as Pisen, a renowned digital accessories brand in China, and deepened cooperation with existing partners such as UGREEN, a leading smartphone and tablet accessory brand in China. During the quarter, the number of transacting stores in consumer electronics category increased by more than ten thousand sequentially.

In our efforts to boost price competitiveness, we continue to enhance capabilities and reinforce users' perceptions of JD Now's value for money offerings. In May, we launched the top brands for CNY 1 section on the landing page of the JD Now tab, offering consumers more than ten million items of value for money products, priced as low as CNY 1. In May, the seven-day repeat purchase rate of users who purchased products from this section was six percentage points higher than that of the entire JD Now tab. In terms of inventory, in June, we launched the Treasures of the Store tab in the supermarket category, featuring curated and reliable flagship SKUs in product categories such as fresh produce offered by leading supermarkets. Going forward, we will continue to explore more opportunities with supermarkets for the Treasures of the Store tab and highlight differentiated product offerings.

On the content side, we continue to enrich product information and improve product attractiveness. In May, we added the product selling points, promotional discounts, and other decision-useful information to search results and the main product images, which increased the click-through rate of search results by over one percentage point and the conversion rate by over two percentage points. On the extra service side, we continue to improve the fulfillment experience. In the second quarter, the average fulfillment time of JD Now's on-demand orders delivered by Dada Now shortened by 15% year-on-year. In May, we launched the on-time delivery guarantee service for our customers on the JD app, which automatically compensates users with a no threshold coupon when the order is fulfilled more than 10 minutes later than the estimated delivery time, showcasing our confidence in the continuous improvement of delivery speed.

In addition, in May, we joined hands with Heilan Home and other menswear brands to take the lead in launching free try-on service in the apparel on-demand retail industry, enabling consumers to enjoy free shipping provided by brands of returned orders if they find the size or style unsatisfactory after fitting. Following the launch of the service, the conversion rate of the related brands increased by more than 10%.... While we continue to implement the above-mentioned comprehensive measures, the penetration of JD Now on JD users continued to increase with accelerated mindshare growth. Our store density and supply quality continued to improve, resulting in accelerated order volume growth.

With the launch of the JD Now section at the center of the JD app homepage, in the second quarter, our average daily unique visitors through the JD app increased by over 70% year-on-year, while user conversion rate was up over 20% year-on-year, driving the average daily paying users to increase by over 100% year-on-year, excluding the impact of our business adjustments. In terms of user stickiness, during this quarter, the thirty-day repeat purchase rate of users through the core JD app channel increased by over 10 percentage points year-on-year, excluding the impact of business adjustments. Specifically, the thirty-day repeat purchase rate of users of the newly launched JD Now section exceeded 50% in May and June.

In April through June, the number of high-frequency users through the JD app channel increased by over 100% year-on-year, excluding the impact of business adjustments, and accelerated from month to month, contributing to the improvement in overall repeat purchase rate. In addition, we continued to improve user satisfaction in the second quarter, demonstrated by a decrease in cost per order, or CPO, by over 10% year-on-year. On the supply side, we continued to expand our offering. By end of June, the number of operating stores increased by nearly 70% year-on-year. The daily average number of transacting stores during the quarter increased by over 80% year-on-year. At the end of June, the proportion of highly price-competitive products increased nearly seven percentage points from a year earlier, bringing the total number of attractively priced store-specific SKUs to 100 million.

Driven by the growth of user base and a stronger user mindshare, as well as the continuous enhancement of supply, the number of online orders through the JD app channel increased by over 100% year-on-year in the second quarter, more than 30 percentage points faster than that in Q1. The peak day online order volume of JD Now reached a new high during the quarter. Excluding the impact of our business adjustments, JD Now's average daily paid order volume increased by over 50% year-on-year in this quarter. Next, I'd like to give you an update on Dada Now, the leading local on-demand delivery platform open to merchants and individual sellers across various industries and product categories. In the second quarter, Dada Now maintained rapid growth, driven by the continued increase in the penetration of restaurants and beverage KAs.

Net revenues from Dada Now increased by 47% year-on-year to CNY 1.4 billion in the second quarter. In the earnings release distributed earlier, we added disclosure of the number of orders delivered and gross billings of our on-demand delivery business. The number of orders delivered includes orders directly placed through Dada Now by merchants and individual sellers, and orders fulfilled by Dada Now for merchants on JD Now. Gross billings refer to the gross amount of service charges for above-mentioned orders of the on-demand delivery services, net of value-added tax. We believe that this measure is more representative of our business scale and more comparable to our peers. The number of orders delivered by Dada Now in the second quarter rose 21% year-on-year to 679 million, and the gross billings of Dada Now grew by 23% year-on-year to CNY 3 billion.

In the first half of the year, net revenues from Dada Now increased by 51% year-on-year to RMB 2.6 billion, mainly thanks to the continuous expansion of new KA customers, as well as increased penetration of existing customers. The number of orders delivered by Dada Now in the first half was up 15% year-over-year to 1.2 billion, and the gross billings of Dada Now were up 15% year-on-year to RMB 5.5 billion. Our KA or chain merchants business saw an overall revenue growth of nearly 50% year-on-year in the second quarter, of which net revenues of restaurant and beverage KAs grew by nearly 80% , thanks to a significant growth in the number of new stores, which more than doubled year-over-year. In terms of beverage KAs, we deepened our cooperation with brands such as Luckin Coffee and Chagee.

For restaurant KAs, we continued to increase penetration of top customers such as Yum China, more than doubling the number of fulfilled orders and revenues of the subcategory. This concludes our operational updates for the two platforms. Overall, during the quarter, we remained committed to our high-quality growth strategy. The continuous enhancement of user experience and the supply of the JD Now resulted in increased consumer engagement and direct order of growth from the JD app. Meanwhile, Dada Now saw further gains in the market share and a strong revenue growth momentum, thanks to increased penetration of restaurants and beverage KAs. Going forward, we will continue to focus on high-quality development, enhance user experience across the board, strengthen our efforts to increase the mind share of our on-demand retail business, and to further leverage the synergies between the on-demand retail and the on-demand delivery platforms.

With that, I will now go over the financials for the quarter. Before we go over the numbers, just a few housekeeping items. We believe year-over-year comparisons are the most useful way to evaluate our performance, and as a result, all percentage change that I'm going to give will be on year-over-year basis, and all figures are in RMB, otherwise noted. In addition, please note that we changed the presentation of the disaggregation of our net revenues this quarter to better reflect our business lines with prior period financials retrospectively recast to conform to current period presentation. Net revenues from JD Now include three line items, namely, commission fee revenues, online advertising and marketing services revenues, and the fulfillment services and others. And net revenues from Dada Now also include three line items, namely, intracity delivery services revenue, last mile delivery services revenue, and other revenues.

The total net revenues in the second quarter was CNY 2.3 billion. Net revenues from JD Now was CNY 912 million, mainly due to a decrease in online advertising and marketing services revenue, and a decrease in fulfillment services and other revenues as a result of the full rollout of our delivery fee waiver program for orders exceeding CNY 29 since February 2024. Net revenues from Dada Now increased by 47% to CNY 1.4 billion, mainly driven by an increase in order volume of intracity delivery services provided to various chain merchants. For the first half of 2024, net revenues from Dada Now increased by 51% to CNY 2.6 billion. Specifically, revenues from intracity delivery services and revenues from last mile delivery services increased by 51% and 64% in the first half of 2024, respectively.

Moving over to cost and expense side. Operations and the support costs in the second quarter were CNY 1.7 billion. This increase was primarily due to an increase in rider costs as a result of the increase of order volume of intracity delivery services provided to various chain merchants, partially offset by decrease in online advertising and marketing services cost. Selling and marketing expenses decreased to CNY 782 million, primarily due to a decrease in promotion activities initiated by us on the JD Now platform. General and administrative expenses decreased to CNY 48 million as a result of a decrease in amortization of intangible assets arising from the acquisition of JD Now in 2016. Research and development expenses decreased to CNY 85 million, mainly attributable to a decrease in research and development personnel costs.

Non-GAAP net loss was CNY 142 million, and non-GAAP net loss margin was 60.1%, decreasing and narrowing by 1.8 percentage points. As of June 30, 2024, we had CNY 3.6 billion in cash, cash equivalents with free cash and short-term investments, and pursuant to our $40 million share repurchase program announced in March 2024, we had repurchased approximately $9.8 million of ADSs as of June 30, 2024. This concludes my prepared remarks. Operator, we are now ready to begin the Q&A session. Thank you.

Jiulu Li (Analyst)

Thank you.

Operator (participant)

... If you wish to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone and wait for your name to be announced. If you wish to cancel your request, please press star two. If you are on a speakerphone, please pick up the handset to ask your questions. Our first question is from the line of Thomas Chong with Jefferies. Please go ahead.

Thomas Chong (Analyst)

Hi, good morning. Thanks, management, for taking my question. My first question is about consumer sentiment. Can management update about the trend in recent months? My second question is about competitive landscape. How should we think about it over the next couple of quarters? Can management comment about the business trend for JD Now and Dada Now in the second half? Thank you.

Henry Jun Mao (CFO)

Thank you, Thomas, for your question. As we shared on our previous calls, for JD Now, we focus on the overall consumption willingness and trend. On the willingness front, in the second quarter, online sales of physical goods grew by 6.4% year-on-year on last year's high base, and the year-on-year growth rate in July slightly increased to eight point one percent, reflecting the continuous and stable recovery of the overall consumer confidence and willingness to spend. In terms of consumption trends, we continue to observe growing consumer demand for convenience across various categories. As an on-demand retail platform, we are actively expanding high quality supply across a wide range of categories to provide consumers with an increasingly rich selection.

On the other hand, we continuously optimize the fulfillment experience and reinforce the mindset of quality and speed. Therefore, we firmly believe that the penetration rate of on-demand retail in the overall social retail will continue to increase, and as you may know, since the beginning of this year, when we started to fully embrace the JD.com ecosystem and drive the upgrade of user experience, as JD Now has maintained rapid growth, in GMV and the user base within the JD app channel. We believe that our competitive edge lie in the richness of offerings on the supply side and a deep integration with JD.com on the demand side, driving us to increase our market share with the on-demand retail industry as we ride on the industry growth.

On the supply side, we've continuously expanded cooperation with a wide range of local merchants across all categories, such as chain supermarkets, convenience stores, brand authorized stores, et cetera, so extensive partnership with merchants ensures a rich supply of high quality products on our platform, which is the foundation of gaining the trust of continuously attracting and retaining customers, and on the demand side, our quarterly paying users currently account for only a middle single-digit % of JD's overall user base, leaving ample room for further penetration among JD.com users.

Given that JD.com users inherently have clear shopping purpose and are more demanding in terms of product quality and the delivery speed, which fits the profile of on-demand retail users well, we believe that converting JD.com users into on-demand retail users is more efficient, and we remain confident in the long-term continuous improvement of our penetration rate among JD.com users. You can see in terms of order volume and revenue growth in the first half of 2024, Dada Now significantly outperformed the on-demand delivery industry and the major third-party on-demand delivery platforms, meaning that we are continuously gaining market share. Dada Now has a significant advantage in terms of network coverage and the delivery costs, giving us confidence in maintaining above industry growth rate in the long run.

In terms of the network coverage, Dada Now has already covered more than 2,600 cities and counties with an annual active rider count approaching 1.3 million, and the cumulative number of the registered riders in the tens of millions. So this ensures sufficient delivery capacity in both high-tier and low-tier cities. And in terms of the delivery cost, thanks to the crowdsourced delivery model, the average delivery cost per order for Dada Now is lower than that of other major third-party on-demand delivery platforms on a like-for-like basis. And JD Now has always been committed to providing users with on-demand retail shopping experience of quality merchandise and instant delivery in order to lead the development of the on-demand retail industry. So, as I mentioned earlier, at the beginning of the year, through a comprehensive review and-...

Adjustments of the business, we have established a strategy of focusing on the user experience, fully embracing with the JD.com ecosystem, and further deepening our strategic partnership with JD.com. To this end, for the first half year, we have been optimizing the user experience and enriching supply through a series of measures, such as the delivery fee waiver program and the brand upgrade, with the aim of accelerating the penetration among JD.com's faster user base, and further enhancing the user mindshare and brand influence of JD Now. In this quarter, we see a strong trend of improvements in core operational metrics. As introduced, our average monthly transacting users and orders through the JD app grew by over 100% on the year-over-year basis, accelerating by over 30 percentage points from Q1 2024.

So in the long term, we believe that there is significant room for the on-demand retail industry to increase its penetration rate, which is still in early stage of development with huge upside. And we are firmly committed to investing in our business. And for Dada Now, over the past two years, we have made continued significant progress in increasing market share and improve profitability. In particular, our year-on-year revenue growth for the first half of over 50%, significantly outpaced the industry growth. So, and for Dada Now, we are currently in the process of brand upgrade. So, Dada Now will be renamed as Dada Now Catalyze Now, to strengthen our brand image as a high-speed, high-quality delivery service provider.

Alicia Yap (Analyst)

Thank you.

Operator (participant)

Thank you. Our next question is from the line of Alicia Yap with Citigroup. Please go ahead.

Alicia Yap (Analyst)

Hi. Good morning, management. Thanks for taking my questions. Two questions here. One is, for your JD Now order demand, can management share with us how the user consumption pattern in terms of the category? So whether you have seen cutback on the non-FMCG category versus the FMCG category. Just wondering, are there any pressure for the take rate across the different categories, given the macro situation? The second question, follow up. So, thank you for giving a lot more disclosure starting this quarter. So besides the revenue, just wondering if management can also remind us the gross profit trend for each of the segments for the Dada Now. For example, the key customer, the SME, in terms of the last mile customer.

Wondering if you can provide some of the segments, and if you see any of these segments that actually have a bigger macro heading. Thank you.

Henry Jun Mao (CFO)

Thank you, Alicia, for your question. So, I just want to highlight that, starting from the beginning of this year, our company has proactively undergone business streamlining and adjustment, concentrating on the core businesses and the channels, while terminating some inefficient operations in the channels. So, consequently, JD Now has faced challenges in terms of overall GMV and the revenue growth in the short term. Not least, we anticipate that these adjustments will pave the way for sustainable, high growth, high-quality growth in the long run. Well, we are encouraged to see the rapid growth of users and order volume on the JD app channel. So, to your question, with years of experience to the supermarket category, we have firmly established our brand in the minds of consumers.

Compared to other categories, the supermarket category is more mature and stable. Within this category, we've noticed a growing appeal of retail models like club warehouse stores and convenience stores among consumers. In response, we are actively seeking collaborations with these models to fulfill consumer needs. For example, in the convenience store category, we continue to deepen and expand our cooperation with top brands in the second quarter, bringing on board more than 5,000 Meiyijia stores and more than 10,000 Lawson stores in July. The improvement in supply also led to incremental orders for JD Now, and in recent years, non-supermarket categories have seen a consistently higher growth rate than supermarkets, largely due to the rising on-demand retail penetration rates in these sectors and evolving consumer mindshare. This trend has continued into this year.

For instance, our emerging categories, such as flowers and beverages, registered rapid growth during second quarter, thanks to our supply expansion efforts and a series of festival-themed marketing campaigns, which resonated well with consumers. So, we are confident that, as consumers increasingly value convenience across all categories and merchants prioritize on-demand retail channels, every category holds significant growth potential in the future for JD Now. And to your question regarding the UE for Dada Now, I think in terms of business development trend of Dada Now, KA business is still the focus of this year. So for the KA business, we will meet the needs of our customers with high caliber fulfillment services to increase our market share.

And for both the KA and SME business, we will closely monitor the development of the industry and our industry peers, and balance top line growth and profitability improvement. As the demand in on-demand delivery service remain fast-growing across restaurants and beverage, supermarkets, and other categories, Dada Now's performance has been resilient. Hope that answers your question.

Alicia Yap (Analyst)

Thank you.

Operator (participant)

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jiulu Li with CICC. Please go ahead.

Jiulu Li (Analyst)

Hi, good morning, management. Thanks for taking my question. I think I have three questions here. The first one is about financial guidance. As we see, Dada Now has a relatively higher growth, the JD Now revenue growth may face some pressure here. From the financial perspective, can we share more color about our, like, growth target or financial guidance, also by business? And then the second one is about, like, cooperation with JD. Do we have any some new developments in our cooperation? And understand that in long term, we still aim to penetrate, like, 50% of JD users. In addition, what are the short-term, midterm, and even long-term goals are there, and how to quantify them? And also, the third one is about the management change. We noticed management change this month.

Are there any change to the company's strategy, and can we share more about it? Yes, thank you.

Henry Jun Mao (CFO)

Yeah. Thank you, Jiulu, for your question. So regarding the outlook or the business plan, I think, as I mentioned repeatedly earlier, like, starting from this year, we have been through the business review and adjustment, which has posed a challenge on JD Now's GMV and commission revenue growth in the short term. But well, we have seen some fruitful results with the focus of integrating more with JD.com ecosystem and the user base and the order volume growth from JD app has partially offset the impact of our business streamlining. So especially for the second quarter, excluding the impact of business adjustment, our GMV was largely flat on a year-over-year basis.

And also, the GMV from JD app channel experiencing a year-over-year growth of over 20%. So, and the channel focus shift also temporarily affected our advertising monetization rate. Advertising revenue for JD Now was primarily generated from the independent JDDJ app previously. However, since the beginning of the year, we have been strategically pivoting to the JD app channel. So as a result, the traffic and GMV of the independent JDDJ app have shown a continuous decline, affecting advertising monetization. On the other hand, although the traffic and the GMV in the JD app channel have significantly increased, we are still focusing on cultivating user mindshare and penetration.

At the same time, there is room for improvement in the sophistication of location-based technology, advertising products, and the marketing solutions within the JD app channel, which require further refinement and merchant education. However, in the long run, we are fully confident in advertising monetization potential of on-demand retail within the JD app channel, and believe that a healthier business structure following our business adjustments, will pave the way for the long-term sustainable growth. For Dada Now, thanks to the strong momentum of our restaurants and beverage KAs, our order volume and revenue achieved rapid growth, continuously gaining market share in the on-demand delivery industry. Dada Now has significantly advantages in terms of network coverage and the delivery cost, giving us confidence in maintaining above industry growth rate in the long run.

So, overall, I think currently, management are prioritizing user and order volume growth, with a focus on penetrating more JD users and enhancing their mindshare of on-demand retail. In the long run, the improvement in users with paid purchase and the growth of order volume, along with the GMV, will contribute to commission revenue and the better monetization of advertising business. And on the bottom line front, based on our confidence in the industry's potential and our competitive advantages, we remain optimistic about achieving breakeven and profitability in the long term. And speaking of the cooperation with JD.com, this quarter, we continued to fully embrace with JD ecosystem, accelerating our user penetration and mindshare growth. In May, a new JD Now section was launched on the homepage of JD app, initially covering 39 cities.

It focuses on high-frequency essential categories such as coffee and milk tea, convenience stores, fresh produce markets, and emergency digital products, offering consumers on-demand shopping options across all categories with delivery as fast as nine minutes. In June, the average daily paying users of the JD Now section had approached 10% of the overall users of JD Now through the JD.com app. The thirty-day repurchase rate of users in the JD Now section exceeded 60%, which is also higher than that of users through the JD.com app. We think it is a sign of initial results that JD Now section has achieved in terms of user penetration and cultivating consumer habits. As of yesterday, we further expanded the geographic coverage of JD Now section to nationwide, providing more JD.com users with the on-demand retail service.

Thanks to the increase in exposure brought about by the newly launched JD Now section, as well as the continuous optimization of CTR and conversion rates at various entry points. So, in this quarter, the penetration rate of JD Now's quarterly paying users among the JD user base reached middle single digits with both year-on-year and quarter-over-quarter growth. So we are also confident in the further improvement of user penetration in the future. And then Dada Now also supported JD Logistics in smoothly handling the order peak during the 618 shopping festival, providing flexible delivery capacity for first mile pickup and then last mile delivery services. Yeah, and to your question regarding the company's strategy, as you can see, the announcements regarding the management change. So Mr.

Kevin Guo has become the chair of the board of directors of the company, providing high-level strategic planning and consultation to the company. But the strategy of both JD Now and Dada Now has never changed. JD Now has always been committed to providing users with on-demand retail shopping experience of quality merchandise and instant delivery, in order to lead the development of the on-demand retail industry. And also, Dada Now will continue to focus on providing customers with stable and efficient on-demand delivery services. And also, as I mentioned, the restaurant and beverage KA's business is top priority of this year.

Operator (participant)

Jiulu, this is the operator. Do you have any more questions? Ladies and gentlemen, we have lost the line for Jiulu. And as there are no further questions at this time, I will now hand back to Caroline for closing remarks. Caroline?

Caroline Tong (Head of Investor Relations)

Thank you, operator. In closing, on behalf of Dada's management team, we'd like to thank you for your participation in today's call. If you require any further information, please feel free to reach out to us directly. Thank you for joining us today. This concludes the call.

Operator (participant)

Thank you. That concludes our conference for today. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect your lines.