In fact, "cashless" has been basically realized in Hangzhou. 98% of taxis, more than 95% of supermarkets and convenience stores, and more than 80% of restaurants all support mobile payment.

According to official data, more than 2 million offline stores across the country have connected to Alipay. Snack bars, roadside stalls, fruit shops and grocery stores, where mobile payment is difficult to popularize, have all realized cashless payment before expressway.

The popularity of mobile payment in China has even attracted the attention of Japanese netizens next door. According to media reports, a recent article entitled "The development of China's non-cash society is beyond imagination" caused a heated discussion in the famous Japanese forum 2ch. But then it was deleted for some reason.

The article points out that the cash payment in domestic convenience stores is only 1 1%, and even roadside fruit stalls are equipped with Alipay and WeChat payment QR codes as standard. What is more exaggerated is that even beggars support scanning code payment.

Some netizens commented that when China people travel to Japan, will they be reminded that' Japan is very backward, so they should bring cash to avoid trouble'? Some people even worry that people in China will find it dirty and inconvenient to use cash, thus looking down on the savage Japanese.

Although mobile payment has become more and more popular, there is still a long way to go to achieve complete cashless, and the old electricity of the elderly is a great obstacle.

However, Alipay is confident. On April 28th, Yuan, vice president of Ant Financial Services, said that China would be the first big country to realize a cashless society and achieve "lane change overtaking". The cashless society will definitely come earlier than expected.