Originally Posted by
moondog
WeChat is extremely stubborn in this regard. Alipay is fairly chill, especially by comparison.
That having been said, if I had to choose between one of the two, it would be WeChat, and I'd get a least one bank account working with it.
This year it became much easier. I did not have a problem with either of them and linking CN cards.
The very good thing about WeChat (appart from it's direct purpose - to comunicate) is that there is a fairly good auto translation tool that helps to translate the mini apps to english, or whatver language you need/is offered.