Shanghai consumers are Alipay's biggest mobile spenders

Shanghai consumers were the biggest spenders on Alipay in 2015 with consumers from Zhejiang, Beijing, Jiangsu and Fujian provinces completing the top five, according to the latest annual report from the Chinese online payment platform. The average individual in Shanghai spent ¥104,155 ($15,834) on Alipay last year, using it primarily for shopping, paying for meals and paying for taxis. A separate report from ECNS shows that Alipay dominates the mobile payment market: nearly two-thirds (65%) of online payments in China were made through Alipay in 2015, up from the 49.3% of mobile payments that Alipay processed in 2014.  

Nearly two thirds (65%) of online payments in China were made through Alipay last year, findings published by the mobile payments provider and reported by ECNS reveal. “The percentage represents a big jump compared with 49.3% of the total transactions done by the same mode in 2014,” the publication says. “The Tibet autonomous region leads the country in mobile payment with 83.3% of the online payment transactions in the region made with mobile devices in 2015.”

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