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Chengdu

14 news stories about Chengdu


What's New in Payments

China launches digital currency app for Android and Apple users in 10 cities

By Tom Phillips • 7 January 2022 • Updated 7 January 2022 • nfcw.com
Peoples Bank of China logo

Android and Apple users in 10 Chinese cities can now download a pilot version of the country’s digital yuan wallet app directly from the iOS and Android app stores that enables them to acquire, store and use China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC)... More


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Chinese bike hire service to let customers use an NFC digital currency wallet to pay for their ride

By Tom Phillips • 16 September 2021 • Updated 16 September 2021 • nfcw.com
Meituan logo

Chinese e-commerce platform Meituan is to enable customers of its bicycle hire service to pay for their rides with the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) while offline using an NFC-enabled digital yuan hard wallet... More


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People’s Bank of China issues digital yuan trial progress report

By Tom Phillips • 19 July 2021 • Updated 19 July 2021 • nfcw.com
Peoples Bank of China logo

Nearly 21m (20.87m) personal and 3.51m corporate digital yuan wallets have so far been issued during China’s ongoing trials of its central bank digital currency (CBDC), the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has revealed... More


Transit Ticketing Today

Beijing Rail Transit lets passengers pay their fares with digital yuan

By Tom Phillips • 2 July 2021 • Updated 2 July 2021 • nfcw.com
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) logo

Passengers on 24 subway lines and four suburban rail services in the Chinese capital of Beijing can now use the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) to make contactless payments for their fares from a digital yuan mobile wallet issued by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China... More


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Chinese banks unveil CBDC hardware prototypes for multiple use cases

By Tom Phillips • 4 May 2021 • Updated 10 May 2021 • nfcw.com
JD.com logistics worker

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have unveiled prototype hardware devices that support the use of the digital yuan central bank digital currency (CBDC) across a range of different use cases... More


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WSJ video shows China’s digital yuan in action in stores

By Tom Phillips • 19 March 2021 • Updated 22 September 2022 • nfcw.com
NFC phones being used to pay using digital yuan

The Wall Street Journal has posted a video report showing Chinese consumers in the city of Chengdu using the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) to make in-store NFC and QR code payments from a digital yuan wallet on their mobile phone... More


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Chinese banks issue digital yuan wallets to Shanghai customers

By Tom Phillips • 11 March 2021 • Updated 11 March 2021 • nfcw.com
Digital yuan wallet in use on smartphone in Shanghai

Some 8,500 consumers in the Chinese city of Shanghai have been given e-wallets containing digital yuan as part of the country’s ongoing pilot scheme for its central bank digital currency (CBDC)... More


What's New in Payments

Tencent and Ant to integrate digital yuan wallets into mobile banking apps

By Tom Phillips • 25 February 2021 • Updated 25 February 2021 • nfcw.com
Peoples Bank of China logo

Tencent-backed WeBank and Ant-backed MyBank are conducting “preliminary work under the guidance of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC)” in order to integrate the digital yuan wallet into their payment and banking services, according to a China Securities report... More


What's New in Payments

Chinese banks launch mobile wallets that let customers transact in digital yuan

By Tom Phillips • 27 January 2021 • Updated 27 January 2021 • nfcw.com
China's digital yuan on a smartphone

At least eight major banks, including Hong Kong-based China CITIC Bank, have now introduced or are in the process of introducing digital wallets that support China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to local media reports... More


What's New in Payments

PBOC distributes digital currency to consumers via red envelope lottery

By Tom Phillips • 12 October 2020 • Updated 12 October 2020 • nfcw.com
Peoples Bank of China logo

Consumers in the city of Shenzhen are being offered the opportunity to win one of 50,000 ‘red envelopes’ containing 200 digital yuan (US$29.65) that they can spend at any of more than 3,000 retail outlets in the city that now accept China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC)... More


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China’s central bank confirms plans for digital currency pilots

By Sarah Clark • 21 April 2020 • Updated 27 June 2022 • nfcw.com
People's Bank of China logo

Internal closed pilot tests of the central bank digital currency (CBDC) developed by the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) are to be conducted in Shenzhen, Suzhou, Xiong’an New District, Chengdu, and at Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics locations, China’s central bank has revealed... More


Transit Ticketing Today

China Mobile picks Gemalto for NFC ticketing in Beijing

By Sarah Clark • 25 September 2014 • Updated 27 January 2019 • nfcw.com
China Mobile

China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile network operator, has chosen Gemalto to supply it with NFC-enabled SIMs “to protect consumer credentials used for mobile contactless applications​, starting with mass transit services in Beijing.”... More


NFC World

Chinese carriers’ NFC plans emerge

By Mike Clark • 7 December 2012 • Updated 27 January 2019 • nfcw.com
China Unicom and China Mobile

China Mobile, the country’s largest mobile operator, has reached agreements with subway and bus companies in 30 cities to allow users to make payments through mobile phones next year, reports Caixin Online... More


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Jiepang to deliver NFC check-ins and rewards to Chinese merchants

By Sarah Clark • 26 August 2011 • Updated 26 August 2011 • nfcw.com
Jiepang's NFC window sticker

China’s leading location-based social service is distributing NFC window stickers to more than 3,000 merchants in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Taipei and Hong Kong. More


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