This article originally appeared on our sister website, Urban Family Shanghai.
By Yuzhou Hu
At long last, Shanghai commuters can now pay for the metro using WeChat payment, according to Kankanews.
The new function went into effect on Monday. WeChat payment is now the third payment option on the Metro Daduhui app (Metro大都会) after Alipay and UnionPay.
To date, more than half of Shanghai Metro’s turnstiles support QR code payments. The convenience will extend to all turnstiles by the end of this year, as is planned by Shanghai Metro operators.
The Metro Daduhui app has been boosting metro user experience since its debut in January. In early April, registration with foreign passports or Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan ID cards was launched, which increased availability to many more metro users around town.
“The statistics show that currently, 20 percent of passengers choose QR code payment to pass through the turnstiles. This new payment option has improved their ways of traveling around the city,” Zhu Limin, vice general manager of Shanghai Metro, told Kankanews.
May 28 will mark the 25th anniversary of the Shanghai Metro. Line 1 of the Shanghai Metro started operating in 1993. Back then, there were only five stations, amounting to a length of only 4.4 kilometers. And now, the total length of the world’s longest metro network is expected to reach 707 kilometers following two additional lines opening this year.
[Images via Shine, Wikipedia and Kankanews]
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