Chinanews.com, Shanghai, November 11 (Li Qiuying) In order to create a friendly consumption environment for the CIIE, focus on Shanghai's goal of accelerating the construction of an international consumption center city, and improve the payment service experience of overseas people coming to Shanghai, Shanghai has launched a series of payment convenience measures "combination punch" to promote the formation of a payment service system of "large-value card swiping, small-amount code scanning, and cash pocketing", and strive to provide a safe, convenient and efficient payment environment for the Expo.
In order to meet the demand for card payment from overseas people, Shanghai has recently opened more than 3,6 foreign card POS machines in key scenarios including commerce, cultural tourism, airports and stations, achieving full coverage of key merchants in the three major scenarios.
Various enterprises have launched measures to optimize the payment environment. For example, all merchants in the National Exhibition and Convention Center have opened wild card POS machines to achieve full coverage of foreign card payment acceptance, urgently opened up a green channel for foreign card acceptance services for merchants with difficulties in accepting cards inside and outside the hall, and posted international payment facilitation signs in prominent positions in all merchants in the International Exhibition Center. All wild card POS machines in New World City, Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, have been upgraded, covering key scenarios such as shopping, cultural tourism, and catering. Shanghai International Tourism Resort has basically achieved full coverage of wild card POS machines in key forms of shopping, accommodation, retail and catering such as Bicester Village in the region, accepting all kinds of international mainstream payment cards, covering 259 merchants and 960 foreign card POS machines. Bailian Lianhua Supermarket has completed the laying of more than 1000,3500 wild card POS in nearly <>,<> stores.
Shanghai has launched an international payment convenience logo Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Shanghai has launched an international payment convenience logo Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Promoted by the Shanghai headquarters of the People's Bank of China, at present, the National Convention and Exhibition Center, the venue of the Shanghai Import Expo, and merchants in major scenarios such as "eating, living, traveling, traveling, shopping, and medical care" all support a variety of mobile payment methods, which can meet the daily consumption payment needs of overseas personnel in Shanghai.
Merchants in major scenarios such as the Shanghai International Import Expo venue and the National Convention and Exhibition Center all support the acceptance of a variety of mobile payment methods; Photo provided by the interviewee
It is reported that Shanghai has formed a network of foreign card RMB cash withdrawal and foreign currency exchange at ATM foreign card cash and foreign currency exchange at bank outlets, supplemented by foreign currency exchange at foreign currency exchange points in key areas.
There are 8212,<> ATMs in Shanghai that can accept foreign cards to withdraw RMB cash
At the same time, there is a foreign currency exchange machine in the CIIE venue, which supports foreign currency conversion into RMB and deposited into the digital RMB hard wallet, and can be paid at the merchant side in China that has completed the acceptance and transformation of digital RMB. At present, more than 170.1674 million merchant stores in Shanghai support the acceptance of e-RMB, including 4438,9714 hotels, 531,57 restaurants, <>,<> retail outlets, <> large shopping malls, and <> scenic spots in cultural tourism and retail scenarios involving the daily consumption payment of overseas personnel, providing an effective supplement to the payment of small consumption by overseas personnel in Shanghai. (ENDS)