China News Service, Hong Kong, July 4th (Reporter Han Xingtong) Hong Kong's plan to issue 5,000 yuan (Hong Kong dollars, the same below) electronic consumer coupons to each eligible person will officially enter the registration phase at 6 am on July 4.
The consumer voucher program website began accepting registration at 6 am, and the public responded enthusiastically. According to the figures released by the SAR government, as of 6 pm, a total of about 1.55 million citizens had entered the registration platform through the program website to submit electronic registration.
Citizen Mr. Zheng had already registered through the official website of the consumer voucher program in the morning. He told reporters from China News Agency that the whole process was relatively smooth. He only needs to fill in his personal information according to the instructions provided on the website, and then choose one of the four payment tools. Used to receive coupons and enter the relevant account number, he chooses AlipayHK (Alipay Hong Kong).
Citizen Ms. Liu registered for the consumer voucher program through "Smart Convenience". She admitted that the website had to "wait in line" at noon. She showed reporters a screenshot of the page. In addition to the queue number, it can also be seen that the number of people in the line was nearly 4 Ten thousand people need to wait for nearly half an hour.
Ms. Liu said that the Hong Kong economy has been hit by the "Regulations Amendment Disturbance" and the new crown epidemic in the past two years. The implementation of the consumer voucher scheme is a good thing for the public and the merchants who have suffered losses.
She told reporters that because she accidentally shattered her mobile phone screen two days ago, she planned to use consumer vouchers to buy electronic products.
She said with a smile: "Thinking that there are consumer vouchers that can be offset, and suddenly it doesn't hurt so much."
In fact, in addition to electronic registration, qualified persons can also choose to submit a written registration form and drop it into the form collection box in any post office or designated bank branch.
The Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Chen Maobo, assisted citizens in registering in the sunset area.
In his blog published on the same day, Chen Maobo also mentioned that for the first time the SAR government has launched a consumer voucher program, many merchants have seized the opportunity to adopt electronic payments.
Chen Maobo also pointed out in the article that electronic payment can be said to be an indispensable infrastructure for the digital economy in the future, and Hong Kong electronic payment has room for further deepening in terms of usage mode and application level.
Promoting the development of electronic payment infrastructure can create favorable space so that consumers and merchants can enjoy lower transaction costs, higher efficiency and more diversified choices, and create more cross-industry promotion opportunities for merchants and enterprises New business opportunities will bring more diversified employment opportunities, adding new impetus and new vision to the economy.
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