89% Jiangsu Mobile users in Nanjing and 83% of Jiangsu Mobile users in Jiangsu paid for goods and services via Alipay, China’s leading third-party online payment provider, latest data shows. Most Jiangsu Mobile users are using Alipay to pay traffic violation fines, check the personal tax and public dividend fund.
In China, about 82 percent of the 520 million Alipay users paid for goods and services via the platform in 2017, compared with 71 percent of 450 million Alipay users in 2016, according to the mobile payment giant's annual report released on Tuesday.
More than 40 million brick-and-mortar stores nationwide have enabled mobile payment in the past year.
In addition to shopping, mobile payment has expanded further into public services as over 200 million users paid for social security, transport and other public services on mobile at least once last year.
The frequent use of mobile payments enabled about 41.5 million users to enjoy services, such as bike-sharing, without having to pay for deposits, and was worth more than 40 billion yuan or $6.15 billion last year thanks to good Alipay credit records.
The report showed that China is moving towards a cashless society, as the search requests for purses on Alibaba's e-commerce platforms dropped in 2017, for the first time in history.
