China News Service, Hong Kong, August 1st. The first batch of eligible citizens in Hong Kong can receive the first round of electronic consumer vouchers of 2,000 yuan (Hong Kong dollars, the same below) starting on the 1st.
The Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Chen Maobo, pointed out in his blog that day that electronic consumer coupons can help promote the deepening application of Hong Kong's electronic payment platform, and give greater momentum to the next stage of Hong Kong's economic development.
Chen Maobo said that the consumer voucher program has come to a new stage of formal use. About 5.5 million citizens who successfully registered electronically in the first two weeks have successively received the first 2,000 yuan consumer vouchers today.
This calculation means that today (1st), citizens have a total of 11 billion yuan of funds to spend according to their own preferences. The scope of use is wide, including eating, drinking, playing, clothing, food and travel.
It is hoped that the public can be encouraged to spend as much as possible, so as to achieve the purpose of consumer coupons.
He introduced that the first batch of citizens who were issued consumer vouchers will receive the second consumer vouchers on October 1st; the second batch of registered citizens will receive the first one on September 1st, 2000 Yuan consumer coupons, and received the second consumer coupon on November 1.
Chen Maobo also said that through the incentives of electronic consumer coupons, the four stored-value payment platforms have added more than 1.2 million consumer accounts and added more than 28,000 merchants that accept electronic payments in the past few months.
Although some comments believe that the effect of the consumer voucher program in promoting electronic payments is only short-lived, the reality is that the competition among several stored-value payment tool operators has reduced the transaction fees that small merchants have to pay. I believe This trend will continue, which is beneficial to the deepening development of Hong Kong's electronic payment platform in the long run.
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