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Old Apr 25, 2023 | 12:50 am
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mdkowals
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Join Date: Dec 2016
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TourCard is still having issues despite supposedly coming on line April 22nd.

You can still bind a foreign credit card to Alipay directly and it works with a fairly decent % of vendors (in Shanghai at least - but it gets harder by the day it seems). If you are here on business you can maybe work with a local colleague to have him top your balance up a few hundred extra RMB to cover where the credit card can't. Cash usually still works at convenience stores, grocery stores, etc...
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