日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
Business / Industries

Payment platforms step up global expansion

By Zheng Xin (China Daily) Updated: 2016-03-30 07:56

Payment platforms step up global expansion

Chinese tourists in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district in Japan during the Lunar New Year Holiday. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Being in the later stages of my pregnancy, my first destination upon arrival in Japan for a holiday with my husband during the Spring Festival was neither a tourist spot nor a hotel.

Instead, my first port of call was a Lawson convenience store at the airport, a savior for those needing extra calories to damp down their hunger from time to time.

Lawson surprises me every time I go to Japan, with its innovative ranges of meals, snacks and sweets. However, what surprised me even more this time was the presence of Alipay in the store, the online payment arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

Online payment services such as Alipay are now so popular in China that I, like most of my friends, barely take any cash while shopping, no matter whether in a supermarket for groceries or dropping by a cafe for a latte, but I never imagined that I would enjoy such convenience abroad.

So while queuing up at the checkout, I connected my smartphone to the Internet and completed the payment for my sushi roll and yogurt in just two seconds.

The salesman told me that Alipay had only been made available at the store for a few weeks, but it was already a roaring success with visiting Chinese tourists.

I told him that the reason it was so popular was that tourists would prefer another method of payment because they generally only have large-denomination bank notes upon arrival.

Indeed, he noted that scanning the payment code from a smartphone is also more convenient than taking a 10,000 yen ($88) bill and giving the customers a handful of coins in change.

I searched the Internet while waiting for a taxi, and found out that Alipay mobile payment has been available at Lawson convenience stores in Tokyo's Narita Airport since Jan 25, and would expand to thousands of convenience stores throughout Japan in the near future.

In addition, the online payment platform has also partnered with Japanese department store Abeno Harukas Kintetsu to make payments more convenient to attract more Chinese customers at four of its Osaka department stores.

Japan has become a top travel destination for Chinese tourists in recent years with its matured travel industry, with nearly 5 million Chinese visitors heading to Japan in 2015, twice the number in the year before.

Our peers have also outstripped travelers from other countries in terms of expenditure, with each one spending $2,446 on average.

Previous Page 1 2 Next Page

Hot Topics

Editor's Picks
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 三级网站在线播放 | 精品国产乱码一区二区三 | 久久久在线观看 | 婷婷五月小说 | 国产喷水在线观看 | 国产h视频| 女18毛片| 日韩 欧美 综合 | 日本不卡高字幕在线2019 | 国产精品一区二区三区免费视频 | 天堂自拍 | 黄色片一区二区 | 色综合综合 | 欧美成人精品一区二区三区在线看 | 超碰在线免费公开 | 欧美一区二区免费在线观看 | 在线视频 一区二区 | 青娱乐超碰在线 | 日本一区二区三区在线视频 | 日韩特黄一级 | 日韩免费久久 | 日韩在线观看不卡 | 五月天激情国产综合婷婷婷 | 亚洲影视大全 | 三级黄网站| 91丨porny丨露出 | 国产91精品一区二区绿帽 | 六月色播 | 日韩女同强女同hd | 亚洲第一黄色 | 国产综合91 | www久久久久久 | 黄色大片一级 | 色av一区| 国产精品一二三四 | 侵犯稚嫩小箩莉h文系列小说 | 在线国产一区二区 | 91麻豆精品在线观看 | 日韩欧美综合在线 | 香蕉视频污版 | 欧美亚洲第一页 |