Shanghai residents spent more on average than those of any other Chinese provincial-level region in 2015 on Alipay, the country’s largest online payment platform, according to a new report.
Average individual spending in the financial hub was 104,155 yuan (15,832 US dollars) on Alipay last year, the highest in the country, according to the report, released Tuesday by Ant Financial, Alibaba’s financial service affiliate, which operates Alipay.
Zhejiang Province in east China ranked second, with 94,192 yuan spent per person on average on Alipay, followed by Beijing, and the eastern coastal provinces of Jiangsu and Fujian.
中國東部浙江省以94192元的人均帳單金額排第二,北京、東部沿海城市江蘇和福建分列3~5位。
When it comes to total spending on Alipay, coastal provinces and more developed cities still took the lead, with Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai and Beijing rounding out the top five, according to the report.
而從支付總額來看,“土豪五省”廣東、浙江、江蘇、上海和北京的支付總額依舊占據前五。
But China has also witnessed a boom in rural e-commerce, with central and western areas showing higher growth rates than more developed areas. Residents in China’s southwestern and northwestern regions were also more willing to pay via their mobile phones, according to the report.
The report also showed that mobile transactions accounted for 65 percent of total transactions conducted via Alipay, which has a computer version and a mobile phone application.
統計還顯示,2015年移動支付筆數比例占支付寶電腦和手機客戶端總交易量的65%。
E-commerce is rising in China, with online sales surging 34.5 percent year on year to 3.45 trillion yuan in the first 11 months, accounting for 12.6 percent of gross retail sales, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.