With mobile payments dominating transactions, no one wanted to accept my cash when I visited China, making it difficult to get around.
While China's mobile payment systems are highly convenient for Chinese or those with bank accounts in China, being a foreigner in China is another story.This week, AliPay and WeChat Pay announced they will support payments for visitors in China.BEIJING — A few months ago, I got out of a taxi upon arriving at my hotel in Beijing. As mainstream credit cards are uncommon and rarely accepted here, I handed the driver cash.
After much back and forth and me telling him I didn't have WeChat Pay or AliPay, I handed the cash to the hotel door staff. The staff member didn't have any cash on him to provide change , and he then used his personal phone to pay the driver through QR code. I visited a Starbucks in Beijing's touristy and international Sanlitun district. After seeing a dozen or so customers before me pay with their phone, I asked the cashier if she would accept cash. She sighed loudly, called for the manager, who unlocked the drawer of her payment terminal and they both hunted to find the exact change.
Despite being based in Hong Kong and having a Hong Kong bank account, I haven't been able to use AliPay or WeChat Pay as the platforms traditionally require a Chinese bank account and phone number.AliPay, run by Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial, and Tencent-backed WeChat Pay announcedLast year, there was a total of 141 million inbound visitors to China, up 1.2% compared to a year prior.
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