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Old Jun 7, 2019 | 1:43 pm
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Originally Posted by jdang
Haha this is so true. My friend was showing me around and we decided to take the bus and she literally did not have any cash for the 2RMB fare.
Which is way rather quickly more and more buses do accept UnionPay payment (contactless) besides the local public transport card.

And subway station token machines are getting upgraded at a rather quick pace all across China (PRC only, the rest falling further behind. I almost can't believe the technological gap when travelling to Non-Mainland China areas nowadays) to accept WeChat as well as AliPay.
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