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WeChat Pay, officially referred to as Weixin Pay (Chinese: 微信支付; pinyin: Wēixìn Zhīfù) in China, is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by WeChat based in China that allows users to make mobile payments and online transactions. As of March 2016, WeChat Pay had over 300 million users. [1]
[1]: 130 China's wide adoption of mobile payments without significant credit card usage is an example of leapfrogging development. [1]: 130 The increase of mobile payment systems such as Alipay and WeChat Pay have facilitated the rapid rise of e-commerce in China. [2]
With more than 1.2 billion users, its built-in payment service WeChat Pay is one of the mainstream payment options in China. ... Jeff Hu, EMEA regional director at WeChat Pay, said during a ...
QR code payment has helped mobile payment become the most popular method of payments in China, accounting for 83% of all payments as of 2018. [8] Nearly all shops, street vendors, most metro systems, buses, and taxis in Mainland China accept either WeChat Pay, Alipay, or Cloud QuickPass for payment. [9]
Since 2021, WeChat users have been able to share links to products on Alibaba's e-commerce platforms, but not complete transactions with WeChat Pay. (Reporting by Casey Hall, Editing by Louise ...
Since 2013, China is the world's largest e-commerce market. [2]: 99 Its domestic e-commerce market was an estimated US$899 billion in 2016. [3] China accounted for 42.4% of worldwide retail e-commerce in that year, the most of any country. [4]: 110 In 2019, online retail sales were 21% of China's total retail sales.
China's central bank, the People's Bank of China (PBOC), began research on the digital currency in 2014 under the leadership of Governor Zhou Xiaochuan. [8] [2] In 2016, Fan Yifei, a deputy governor of the PBOC, wrote that "the conditions are ripe for digital currencies, which can reduce operating costs, increase efficiency and enable a wide range of new applications". [9]
It continues to be China's largest online payment service as of at least 2023. [6]: 150 WeChat Pay remains a strong competitor to Alipay, with 37% of the Chinese mobile payment market as of 2016. [6]: 151 By June 2020, there were 805 million users of mobile payment in China. [40]: 202