{"id":63669,"date":"2024-04-29T09:26:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T00:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/29\/china-slows-cashless-society-transition-cash-digital-currency-mobile-payment-system"},"modified":"2024-04-29T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T00:26:53","slug":"cash-is-king-for-now-china-signals-it-will-slow-transition-to-cashless-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63669","title":{"rendered":"Cash is king \u2014 for now: China signals it will slow transition to cashless society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With tourists struggling to access the two primary digital payment apps, Alipay and WeChat pay, Beijing has put measures in place to make cash payments easier<\/p>\n<p>For 18 years, Liu Yau-li has been bringing tourists to China. In that time she\u2019s seen the full evolution of China\u2019s digital payment system. Twenty years ago, she says, everyone used cash. But today it\u2019s not unusual to find places that can\u2019t or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2022\/apr\/18\/the-big-idea-should-we-embrace-a-cashless-society\">won\u2019t accept cash<\/a> at all, particularly after the pandemic when much of the world grew wary of handling shared items.<\/p>\n<p>If visitors want to enjoy convenient travel, she says, they\u2019re better off downloading one of the major payment apps and hoping it works for them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/29\/china-slows-cashless-society-transition-cash-digital-currency-mobile-payment-system\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With tourists struggling to access the two primary digital payment apps, Alipay and WeChat pay, Beijing has put measures in place to make cash payments easierFor 18 years, Liu Yau-li has been bringing tourists to China. In that time she\u2019s seen the full&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2626,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,233,1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-money","category-travel-leisure"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63670,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63669\/revisions\/63670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}