Original title: Alipay released overseas edition. Foreign visitors to China can use it this week.
From November 5th onwards, Alipay will be open to foreign tourists coming to China. Visitors can use Alipay at a time of recharge, without using the mobile phone numbers and bank cards in mainland China for registration and binding. 90.
With the help of'Tour Pass applet, foreign tourists can download Alipay overseas applications on iOS and Android system devices, and can register with their overseas numbers, and transfer their international debit cards or credit cards to prepaid cards provided by Shanghai Bank (9.470, 0.02, 0.21%).
According to ant gold service regulations, foreign tourists can recharge at least 100 yuan and up to 2000 yuan each time, and can recharge multiple times.
In 2018, China received 30.5 million foreign tourists, a year-on-year increase of 4.7%. According to the relevant statistics of ant financial, the consumption of these tourists in accommodation, catering and shopping reached about 73.1 billion US dollars.
Ant gold clothing hopes to continue opening the tourist market through this initiative, help solve the problem of foreign tourists' difficulties in mobile payment in China for a long time, and consolidate Alipay's leading position in the domestic mobile payment market.
According to Alipay's previous public announcement, as of January 2019, Alipay has more than 1 billion users worldwide. By June 2019, this figure has increased to 1.2 billion. Within six months, the number of Alipay's global subscribers has increased by 20%, a large part of which comes from the increase of overseas users.
At the beginning of this year, Alipay announced that its number of users covered 54 countries and regions in the world, and at the same time, it released 9 versions of Alipay which adapted to different countries or regions in different countries.
It is worth mentioning that the above version of Alipay application has not been opened to mobile phone users in Hongkong and Macao. The Hong Kong version of Alipay'AlipayHK was approved by the central bank in July 19th this year to carry out mobile payment services in the mainland. At present, the number of users of alipayhk has exceeded 2 million, and the utilization rate of alipayhk has exceeded 53%, which has become the preferred e-wallet for Hong Kong residents.