The CNNIC report revealed that a total of 600 million people used online payment in 2018, up 13% year on year.
The report further uncovers:
for online shopping, people preferred to use mobile wallets;
67.2% of Chinas internet users used mobile payments offline, up from 65.2% in 2017;
about 406 million people ordered food online, 18.2% up over 2017, 397 million of whom did it on mobiles, up 23.2% year on year;
Alipay and WeChat pay have been used in more than 40 foreign countries and regions respectively, while some Chinese companies launched local mobile wallets in nine Asian countries and regions;
Chinas internet users totaled 829 million at the end of 2018, up 7.3% from 2017.
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