5 ways China’s WeChat is more innovative than you think

[Offshore]

How? In India we criticize almost everything day and night.

I can't understand what your comment possibly means.

We get thing done quietly and put our skill on work

While Indian put their skill on their mouth...
That's why you guys never achieved anything.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

We get thing done quietly and put our skill on work

While Indian put their skill on their mouth...
That's why you guys never achieved anything.

Umm...

There are many democracies that have achieved a LOT.

As for India, it started late. India is not the same case as China.

Even China thrived due to intra-party criticism and plurality. It seems that the current politicians are doing away with that, but it was this intra party criticism that made China thrive.

Until 1970s, China was pretty much like a bigger version of North Korea.

 

[Offshore]

Umm...

There are many democracies that have achieved a LOT.

As for India, it started late. India is not the same case as China.

Even China thrived due to intra-party criticism and plurality. It seems that the current politicians are doing away with that, but it was this intra party criticism that made China thrive.

Until 1970s, China was pretty much like a bigger version of North Korea.

You know nothing about us..

Every decision have been discussed and calculated by our internal party think tank, We know what we are doing.
We don't make unnecessary noise, just get it done quietly.

Now you said India started it late? How come?
We Chinese have been through bloody war and famine, India also have better infrastructures than us..

Like I said

We Chinese get thing done quietly and put our skills on works

While Indian putting their skills on mouth.

This is undeniable fact.

 

[xunzi]

Government officials should not speak publicly about national policies because it threatens national security so I don't see what you are whining about. Privately, there is plenty of disagreement in the party and that's acceptable but keeps it indoor. That is the proper way of getting things done. Having a big mouth is counterproductive.

 

[Offshore]

Government officials should not speak publicly about national policies because it threatens national security so I don't see what you are whining about. Privately, there is plenty of disagreement in the party and that's acceptable but keeps it indoor. That is the proper way of getting things done. Having a big mouth is counterproductive.

Very true!
In China, politics is not entertainment show.
Want to talk about politics, be a politician!

China is not a western country or western wannabe country who put a comedic show every 5 years

 

[ahojunk]

Feature: WeChat offers convenient e-payment services for Thai sellers, Chinese tourists
(Xinhua) 20:48, April 21, 2017

BANGKOK, April 21 (Xinhua) -- E-payment method has been growing dramatically in China, changing Chinese people's life and coming out with tourists to other countries, such as Thailand.

Thailand has been the hot destination for Chinese tourists in recent years and China the largest source of group visitors to Thailand.

WeChat Pay, one of the most popular payment methods in China, thus followed the steps of Chinese tourists into Thailand.

During the Songkran festival this year, which is the high season for Chinese tourists to visit Thailand, many Chinese tourists were seen use WeChat Pay in convenience stores, duty-free shops, restaurants and even massage parlors, no matter in Chiang Mai, Phuket or capital Bangkok.

"I don't need to take my wallet out, I don't need to wait for change, there is some discount and no commission, the payment method has so many advantages," said Liu, a woman from Beijing, while shopping in King Power's Bangkok Downtown Complex.

"That we have WeChat Pay here means we can get access to the huge population using WeChat, the most popular social media in China, and it will drive our sales to go up," said Kuang Wei, King Power's manager overseeing the international market.

Kuang said e-payment was introduced to the store at the beginning of 2016. Although only 20 percent to 30 percent of payments are paid by e-payment methods, e-payment is growing quickly as the store has many Chinese customers who are already used to use these methods to pay.

A Thai restaurant called Thevaros, where WeChat Pay was introduced 14 months ago, in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai, told Xinhua that their revenue increased some 50 percent after introducing WeChat Pay.

When compared with traditional payments by credit or debit cards, Yin Jie, who is in charge of WeChat Pay's overseas service, said e-payment can help sellers to communicate with their customers and improve their service according to feedback from customers, which is a big advantage.

According to WeChat Pay, the transaction volume in Thailand grew dramatically during the Chinese lunar new year and Thai new year Songkran in 2017.

Yin told Xinhua that WeChat Pay's overseas service focus only on Chinese tourists now, as the service is available in 12 countries and regions such as South Korea, Japan, Canada, China's Taiwan.

"We may extend our service to the Thai market in the long term," Yin said.

 

[Place Of Space]

The persons paying in cash here will really be seen as bumpkins.

 

[TaiShang]

WeChat becomes business tool as it tops Facebook's daily usage
China Daily, April 26, 2017

WeChat, the ubiquitous messaging app, is being used for an ever longer period of time and is growing into a lifestyle choice embedded into daily activities and interactions, a new survey has found.

WeChat, the ubiquitous messaging app, is being used for an ever longer period of time and is growing into a lifestyle choice. [Photo provided to China Daily]

In 2016, one-third of WeChat's 889 million monthly active users spent a solid four hours or more per day on the mobile chatting tool, twice that of a year ago, according to Penguin Intelligence, a research arm of WeChat's developer Tencent Holdings.

The average daily time spent is also up slightly, now at 66 minutes, surpassing that of Facebook's average 50 minutes recorded last year.

And it's becoming more pervasive and stickier than ever, creeping into new aspects of life from offline payments to receiving newsfeeds.

A striking 92 percent of respondents to the survey said they prefer mobile payment over cash and credit cards when shopping in stores. Speed, convenience and "not bothering to carry cash" are the top three reasons cited for using mobile wallets to buy movie tickets and pay utility bills.

It's also transforming the way people get information. WeChat's public accounts, which allow media services, industry bloggers and corporate branding campaigners, to feed content to subscribers, are quickly gaining traction. Nearly 60 percent of users expressed the willingness to tip good content producers.

Already cementing WeChat's position as the nation's most-used app, users found a majority of newly added contacts are casual acquaintances, notably in work-related communication. About 45 percent of WeChat users reported to have over 200 contacts, up from just 10 percent a few years ago.

Such a trend is turning the app into a virtual workplace. Over 80 percent of people have handled office work on WeChat, from transferring files and coordinating tasks to taking video calls and making transactions.

"The all-in-one super app is radically changing the way I live. When lining up for coffee, I can't see a single customer holding a wallet — instead they hold mobile phones over a reader and the lattes are theirs," said Fred Wellington, an Australian auditor working in Shanghai.

Last year, WeChat users helped drive 174.3 billion yuan ($25.3 billion) of information-sector spending and created jobs for 18.8 million people, according to a separate study by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology released in early April.

Mobile apps are gaining additional steam by integrating payment functions into public service platforms, said Lu Wei, secretary-general of the Internet Society of China. With a few taps on the phone, users can declare personal taxes, pay traffic fines and make medical appointments, he said.

The internet-enabled digital economy had claimed 30.6 percent of China's GDP by 2016, according to the China Internet Plus and Digital Economy Index published this month.

***

Now it makes even more sense why China's very wise government protected actively nascent internet companies in their growth stage from monopolistic US domination by kicking them out from China's market on legitimate legal grounds.

You cannot tell any other country that can challenge (and beat) US internet social media and communication companies.

For this, we must be paying our best respect to the wise policy makers in Beijing.

The world is more colorful and safer with multiple centers of power and competition.

Imagine a condition where the US controls the entire social media and communication in the world. That would be global neo-fascism.

@ahojunk , @AndrewJin , @samsara , @Jlaw , @oprih

 

[Jlaw]

WeChat becomes business tool as it tops Facebook's daily usage
China Daily, April 26, 2017

WeChat, the ubiquitous messaging app, is being used for an ever longer period of time and is growing into a lifestyle choice embedded into daily activities and interactions, a new survey has found.

WeChat, the ubiquitous messaging app, is being used for an ever longer period of time and is growing into a lifestyle choice. [Photo provided to China Daily]

In 2016, one-third of WeChat's 889 million monthly active users spent a solid four hours or more per day on the mobile chatting tool, twice that of a year ago, according to Penguin Intelligence, a research arm of WeChat's developer Tencent Holdings.

The average daily time spent is also up slightly, now at 66 minutes, surpassing that of Facebook's average 50 minutes recorded last year.

And it's becoming more pervasive and stickier than ever, creeping into new aspects of life from offline payments to receiving newsfeeds.

A striking 92 percent of respondents to the survey said they prefer mobile payment over cash and credit cards when shopping in stores. Speed, convenience and "not bothering to carry cash" are the top three reasons cited for using mobile wallets to buy movie tickets and pay utility bills.

It's also transforming the way people get information. WeChat's public accounts, which allow media services, industry bloggers and corporate branding campaigners, to feed content to subscribers, are quickly gaining traction. Nearly 60 percent of users expressed the willingness to tip good content producers.

Already cementing WeChat's position as the nation's most-used app, users found a majority of newly added contacts are casual acquaintances, notably in work-related communication. About 45 percent of WeChat users reported to have over 200 contacts, up from just 10 percent a few years ago.

Such a trend is turning the app into a virtual workplace. Over 80 percent of people have handled office work on WeChat, from transferring files and coordinating tasks to taking video calls and making transactions.

"The all-in-one super app is radically changing the way I live. When lining up for coffee, I can't see a single customer holding a wallet — instead they hold mobile phones over a reader and the lattes are theirs," said Fred Wellington, an Australian auditor working in Shanghai.

Last year, WeChat users helped drive 174.3 billion yuan ($25.3 billion) of information-sector spending and created jobs for 18.8 million people, according to a separate study by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology released in early April.

Mobile apps are gaining additional steam by integrating payment functions into public service platforms, said Lu Wei, secretary-general of the Internet Society of China. With a few taps on the phone, users can declare personal taxes, pay traffic fines and make medical appointments, he said.

The internet-enabled digital economy had claimed 30.6 percent of China's GDP by 2016, according to the China Internet Plus and Digital Economy Index published this month.

***

Now it makes even more sense why China's very wise government protected actively nascent internet companies in their growth stage from monopolistic US domination by kicking them out from China's market on legitimate legal grounds.

You cannot tell any other country that can challenge (and beat) US internet social media and communication companies.

For this, we must be paying our best respect to the wise policy makers in Beijing.

The world is more colorful and safer with multiple centers of power and competition.

Imagine a condition where the US controls the entire social media and communication in the world. That would be global neo-fascism.

@ahojunk , @AndrewJin , @samsara , @Jlaw , @oprih

FB was meant to gather peoples information without people realizing it. Marketers can use these information to target advertise to the fools. Its a brilliant strategy for the stupid to tell the world who they are, etc. Recently its great way to let people know who you will murder.
I don't feel sorry for the stupids on FB.