JD, a prominent Chinese online marketplace known for its logistics prowess, plans to build China's first carbon-neutral logistics industrial park in Xi'an, Shaanxi province.

JD is accelerating steps to reduce energy consumption and bolster green and sustainable development.

Its Asia No 1 intelligent logistics park in Xi'an will cover an area of nearly 300,000 square meters, and is expected to achieve carbon neutrality in early 2022, JD said.

So far, the park has built a 100,000-sq-m rooftop photovoltaic power generation system, which generated about 8.5 million kilowatt-hours of electricity from January to October this year.

This has helped reduce carbon emissions by about 5,670 metric tons compared to purchasing electricity from local power plants, JD said.

The company's green goals include reducing carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2030 compared with 2019. JD has already finished installing PV systems at 12 logistics parks across the nation.