According to the People's Bank of China, at present, 30 provinces and cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, have introduced specific initiatives to further meet the diversified payment service needs of expatriates coming to China and other groups. At present, the initiatives around the world have already achieved stage-by-stage progress, and the amount and number of payment transactions within the territory of expatriates have realized significant growth.

From subways to museums, from big shopping malls to specialty stores, there are more convenient payment scenarios for foreigners coming to China. Shanghai and other places are actively creating “early demonstration zones” for payment facilitation. In one shopping mall, the number of foreign customers has increased significantly this year, and the vast majority of merchants have opened the foreign card payment function, while many merchants have convenient payment guides posted at their entrances.

A tourist in Italy says: It is very convenient, I use my cell phone for almost everything. I use my cell phone to take the subway, I use my cell phone to pay for things because there are menu items that allow me to open my phone and choose whatever action I want to perform.

Not only Shanghai, Xi'an is actively building an internationalized friendly tourist consumption destination, upgrading scenic spots, hotels, restaurants, travel and other scenes to facilitate payment and digital services in the city, inbound tourists “foreign card tied”, you can be the same as the domestic users of the same code payment, at the same time, you can also use nine countries and regions, such as South Korea, Singapore, Kazakhstan and other e-wallets, directly scanning consumption. At the same time, they can also use the e-wallets of nine countries and regions, including South Korea, Singapore and Kazakhstan, to directly scan the code for consumption.

The head of the payment institution said: all the five major international card organizations support, basically, foreign tourists do not have any obstacles to payment.

According to statistics, in April 2024, the number and value of POS outbound card transactions doubled from February, and more than 2 million inbound people used mobile payments, with the number and value of transactions increasing by more than 80% from February.

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