智能手机支付为钱包“减负” - 2017年12月08日

CHINESE consumers say they feel perfectly comfortable leaving home with cash-empty pockets and relying on smartphones to pay for purchases and services. That confidence underpins the rapid development of electronic payments in China.

“Mobile payment enables me to go out with a lighter purse and saves lots of time and trouble,” said Liu Shuang, a college student in Shanghai. “I can’t even remember clearly the last time I used cash to buy something.”

A report produced by Tencent, Renmin University of China and French research firm Ipsos found that 84 percent of Chinese have no qualms about the cashless society. Indeed, there are now some 520 million people using mobile payment systems, according to Alibaba financial affiliate Ant Financial.