{"id":2169,"date":"2023-06-29T23:33:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2023-06-29T23:45:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T15:45:25","slug":"wechat-pay-to-accept-visa-cards-to-help-foreign-users-in-cashless-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/2169","title":{"rendered":"WeChat Pay to accept Visa cards to help foreign users live in cashless China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-v-3ea23604=\"\">\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\" data-v-e5d603e4=\"\" data-v-3ea23604=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2170\" src=\"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/2023062915323032.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1070\" height=\"714\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\" data-v-e5d603e4=\"\" data-v-3ea23604=\"\">Foreign tourists may find it easier to pay for taxi rides, restaurant meals and attraction tickets in China\u2019s cashless society from next month, as <span class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--a content--a\" title=\"\" data-v-03dbdbc7=\"\" data-v-e5d603e4=\"\" data-entity-uuid=\"20fa892d-d9f4-492a-8fdf-303e15accb52\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-bundle=\"topics\"><span class=\"text\" data-v-03dbdbc7=\"\">Tencent Holdings<\/span><\/span>\u00a0begins to facilitate payments by Visa and other international bank cards through WeChat Pay, following a similar move by\u00a0<span class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--a content--a\" title=\"\" data-v-03dbdbc7=\"\" data-v-e5d603e4=\"\" data-entity-uuid=\"c5a77284-dd0f-458e-8882-cd411612ad60\" data-entity-type=\"taxonomy_term\" data-entity-bundle=\"topics\"><span class=\"text\" data-v-03dbdbc7=\"\">Ant Group<\/span><\/span>\u2019s Alipay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-v-3ea23604=\"\">\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\" data-v-e5d603e4=\"\" data-v-3ea23604=\"\"><span style=\"text-indent: 2em;\">Shenzhen-based Tencent plans to let foreign users link their credit or debit cards issued by Visa and other major international operators from July, said Royal Chen Qiru, vice-president of Tencent Financial Technology, at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-v-3ea23604=\"\">\n<div class=\"lazyload-component\" data-v-1854add0=\"\" data-v-3ea23604=\"\">\n<div data-v-1854add0=\"\">\n<div data-v-1854add0=\"\">\n<div class=\"details__body body body--next\" data-v-3ea23604=\"\">\n<div class=\"paywalled-content\" data-v-3ea23604=\"\">\n<div data-v-3ea23604=\"\">\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\" data-v-e5d603e4=\"\" data-v-3ea23604=\"\">The move will allow travellers to use their smartphones to pay tens of millions of merchants across China, from shops to hotels to transport providers, that already accept the domestic version of WeChat Pay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-v-3ea23604=\"\">\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\" data-v-e5d603e4=\"\" data-v-3ea23604=\"\">\u201cTencent has been working hard to provide greater access to China\u2019s online and offline merchants for overseas visitors,\u201d Chen said at the event held in the Chinese port city Tianjin, also known as Summer Davos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-v-3ea23604=\"\">\n<p class=\"generic-article__body article-details-type--p content--p\" data-v-e5d603e4=\"\" data-v-3ea23604=\"\">It comes after Alipay, operated by Alibaba Group Holding affiliate Ant, announced this month it would allow foreign users to pay in China with Mastercard credit or debit cards. The platform also supports overseas bank cards issued by Visa, Diners Club International and Discover, according to Alipay.<\/p>\n<p data-v-e5d603e4=\"\" data-v-3ea23604=\"\">In recent years, China has increasingly moved towards being a cashless society that is highly reliant on digital and mobile payments. The number of online payments users in China surpassed 911 million in December 2022, accounting for around 85 per cent of the country\u2019s internet population, according to the latest report by China Internet Network Information Centre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\" data-v-e5d603e4=\"\" data-v-3ea23604=\"\"><em>From: South China Morning Post<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign tourists may find it easier to pay for taxi rides, restaurant &hellip; ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-in-china"],"en_md_date":"Jun. 29, 2023","thumbnailurl":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/2023062915323032.jpg","fr_down_url":"","author_avatar":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/avatars\/1.jpg","author_name":"Elite RE","author_url":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/me\/1","job_status":"1","post_views":"1195","parent_cat":"Live in China","cat_id":2,"cat_names":"Live in China","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.elitere.cn\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}