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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]
[7] [8] [9] WeChat has been described as China's "app for everything" and a super-app because of its wide range of functions. [10] WeChat provides text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, video conferencing, video games, mobile payment, sharing of photographs and videos and location sharing.
According to the statistics of the fourth quarter of 2018, Alipay has a 55.32% share of the third-party payment market in mainland China, and it continues to grow. [4] [5] [6] Along with WeChat, Alipay has been described to be China's super-app with a wide range of functionalities including ridesharing, travel booking and medical appointments ...
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
The UnionPay app was launched on 11 December 2017, which was merged from the old UnionPay app and UnionPay Wallet (Chinese: 银联钱包).Following that, the app has trailed in popularity behind its two major competitors, however, in 2021, the mandate by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) to open up the "walled garden" ecosystems of the major tech companies, has allowed ...
WeChat red envelope (or WeChat red packet) is a mobile application developed by the Chinese technology company Tencent. The concept, also offered by its market competitors Alibaba and Baidu , is based on the Chinese tradition of hongbao (red envelope, or red packet), where money is given to family and friends as a gift.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's domestic platforms Taobao and Tmall will begin accepting payments from Tencent's WeChat pay, Alibaba said in a statement on Wednesday.