(Reporter Pan Fuda intern reporter Xia Hua) The Beijing Digital RMB Winter Olympics full-scene pilot is celebrating its anniversary.
The reporter learned yesterday from the Municipal Financial Supervision Bureau that by the end of 2021, the city has opened more than 12 million digital RMB personal wallets and more than 1.3 million public wallets, covering food, housing, transportation, travel, shopping, entertainment, medical and other Winter Olympics There are more than 400,000 scenes in the whole scene, and the transaction amount is 9.6 billion yuan.
At the end of 2020, Shen Xue, the world champion of figure skating, passed the gate smoothly as the subway gate made a "beep".
This is the city's first digital renminbi subway ticket that she purchased with digital renminbi, and she experienced the use of the Winter Olympics-specific wearable device wallet to pass through the turnstile, which also marked the official start of the pilot.
Featuring the Winter Olympics scene pilot, the Beijing digital RMB pilot will focus on the payment service needs of the seven key areas of food, housing, transportation, travel, shopping, entertainment, and medical care in the Winter Olympics, and create distinctive pilot scenes and products to ensure domestic and foreign protection. The payment experience of consumers using digital renminbi helps to hold the Winter Olympics.
Over the past year, based on the Science and Technology Winter Olympics and the Smart Winter Olympics, the city has piloted the deployment of innovative digital renminbi application scenarios such as unmanned vending vehicles, self-service vending machines, and unmanned supermarkets, and has launched payment gloves, payment badges, payment clothing and other wearable payment devices. .
At the end of 2021, the construction of the closed-loop external Winter Olympics payment environment was successfully completed, and the pilot of the digital RMB Winter Olympics scene was steadily advanced, creating a safe, convenient and efficient digital RMB payment environment for the Science and Technology Winter Olympics, fully demonstrating that Beijing is exploring the field of financial technology development. Achievements and accumulated valuable experience for building the capital's digital financial system.
The Beijing digital RMB pilot focuses on covering multiple scenarios, and has participated in the construction of Beijing as an international consumption center city, forming a series of characteristic activities and consumption scenarios.
The digital renminbi pilot has also gradually entered more common, small and high-frequency areas of livelihood, allowing the digital renminbi to enter the daily life of citizens.
At present, the city's bus, subway, and shared bicycles have fully supported the use of digital renminbi to purchase tickets for rides.
The three major operators, EMS, SF Express, etc. all support digital RMB payment.
Beijing State Grid Power supports the use of digital renminbi to pay electricity bills.
The Beijing Water APP will soon launch the digital RMB payment function.
27 cities (districts) are designated hospitals for the Winter Olympics to carry out digital renminbi pilots.
Some elderly care service stations in the city pilot use digital renminbi to pay for various expenses, and the visual card wallet integrated with the health code function helps the elderly overcome the "digital divide".
Fengtai Workers University took the lead in accepting digital currency for tuition payment, and pioneered the application of digital RMB in the collection of fiscal and non-tax income business scenarios in the country; Fengtai District Government Service Center supported the use of digital currency to pay fees, and launched the city's first digital RMB application scenario for government services; The urban tax bureau collects taxes corresponding to rental houses through digital RMB, marking the implementation of the digital RMB tax payment scene in Beijing.
A number of "first cases" in the field of government services in Beijing reflect the innovative application of smart government affairs, and are also an active exploration of optimizing the business environment.
In the next step, Beijing will continue to deepen the digital renminbi pilot in a steady and orderly manner, focusing on meeting domestic retail payment needs, using digital renminbi in more scenarios such as retail transactions, life payment, and government services, and building a global digital economy benchmark city with the advantages of smart financial services .
At the same time, Beijing will continue to rely on the Digital Currency Research Institute of the People's Bank of China to support the continuous implementation of key digital financial institutions and major projects, and create a good development ecosystem for digital RMB technology and applications.