Popularity of virtual payments means cashless society will soon be a reality

AT THE ONGOING FIFTH PLENARY SESSION of the 12th National People's Congress, Yu Chun, a deputy from Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, called for more efforts to establish a cash-free society. Thepaper.cn commented on Saturday:

Yu, a bus driver, said she was talking from her own experience, as more and more passengers were asking her: "Driver, I can use Alipay, I don't have any change."

It has taken the country just a few years to embrace third-party mobile payments apps such as Alibaba's Alipay. In the big cities, it is now more important to carry a smartphone than a wallet. People can now effortlessly survive a day without cash, making all their payments digitally with a smartphone.