China News Service, Suzhou, on the 12th (Zhong Sheng) On the evening of the 11th, as the mobile phone in the hands of Suzhou Municipal Party Committee Secretary Xu Kunlin touched the big screen, 100,000 digital RMB consumption red envelopes totaling 20 million yuan were officially launched.

Within the validity period, successful citizens who have received digital RMB consumption red envelopes can go to designated merchants for consumption.

  On the same day, the "Double 12 Suzhou Shopping Festival" kicked off.

As one of the activities of the shopping festival, Suzhou launched a digital renminbi consumption red envelope activity, distributing 100,000 digital renminbi consumption red envelopes totaling 20 million yuan.

  Digital RMB consumption red envelopes are issued in the form of "lottery drawing".

From 0:00 on December 5th to 24:00 on December 6, 2020, many Suzhou citizens flocked to the lottery registration channel, hoping to "possess the Koi carp".

  From 8 o'clock on the 11th, the event organizer began to push the winning information to the winners through text messages and information in the "Su Zhou Da" APP.

The validity period of the digital renminbi consumption red envelope is from 20:00 on December 11, 2020 to 24:00 on December 27, 2020. Red envelopes that have not been used within the validity period will be invalid and will be withdrawn from the personal digital RMB wallet.

  At present, there are nearly 10,000 merchants in Suzhou that can use digital RMB to consume red envelopes, covering the core business districts of ten cities (districts). The usage scenarios include shopping malls and supermarkets, daily retail, catering consumption, and living services, etc. At the same time, it also cooperated with Jingdong Mall to deploy the use scene online for the first time.

In terms of payment style, during the event, in addition to offline QR code payment, offline "touch" payment function and e-commerce online payment function will also be provided, and some people can also participate in the offline wallet experience.

  "Double 12 Suzhou Shopping Festival" runs through the five important nodes of "Double 12", "Winter Solstice", "New Year's Day", "Spring Festival" and "Lantern Festival", and will end at the end of February 2021.

It is understood that in the next few nodes, Suzhou City also plans to successively issue digital RMB consumption red envelopes of varying denominations.

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