Robots will replace 700,000 delivery workers ‘sooner or later’, warns JD.com boss

June 22, 2026

Financial Times: “In the future, when robots are delivering parcels, sooner or later, there will be a day when couriers are basically no longer needed,” Liu told the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO forum in Shenzhen on Sunday. “It will definitely be robots delivering parcels. But I really do not want our 700,000 brothers to go without meals, without jobs.”…