Working in New Year? JD pays kids' trips

JD.com Inc, China's second-largest e-commerce player, announced it will invest about 75 million yuan ($10.9 million) to let the children of its employees reunite with parents who have to work during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday.

For some families, the Spring Festival holiday is the only time during the year when they can all be together, as those who left rural areas to work in the cities travel home to reunite with family and friends, and others travel from the countryside to cities or distant towns where their loved ones work.

JD Chairman and CEO Richard Liu initiated a project in 2014 to give employees who live apart from their children a subsidy of 3,000 yuan if they have a child, and an additional 3,000 yuan if they have more than one, so that the children can travel to visit their parents during the Spring Festival.