Cashless payments eased for visitors to china

WeChat, the omnipresent super app in China, will allow foreigners to pay by Visa and other international bank cards in tens of millions of merchants nationwide starting this month, its operator Tencent announced this week. 

That, along with a similar move by Ant Group’s Alipay – the other major Chinese mobile payments platform – finally allows tourists to partake in the country’s cashless revolution, which has long offered convenience to many locals, but is also a source of frustration for tourists who don’t have Chinese bank accounts and struggle to make payments in places that don’t take cash - South China Morning Post