{"id":59753,"date":"2022-04-07T13:58:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T10:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=59753"},"modified":"2025-09-04T23:39:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:39:04","slug":"wechat-joins-the-e-cny-testing-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wechat-joins-the-e-cny-testing-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"WeChat joins the e-CNY testing programme."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WeChat communication system, owned by the Chinese tech giant Tencent, <a href=\"https:\/\/baijiahao.baidu.com\/s?id=1729354640156809292&#038;wfr=spider&#038;for=pc\">\u043f\u0440\u0438\u0441\u043e\u0435\u0434\u0438\u043d\u0438\u043b\u0430\u0441\u044c<\/a> to the testing of the digital yuan (e-CNY). Users of the app in the pilot-programme regions can use the instrument as a means of payment.<\/p>\n<p>To conduct transactions with <span data-descr=\"central bank digital currency\" class=\"old_tooltip\">CBDC<\/span>, WeChat users must submit a corresponding application to the neobank WeBank. The latter also belongs to Tencent.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the People&#8217;s Bank of China <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/china-to-expand-digital-yuan-testing-program\">announced<\/a> the expansion of the e-CNY testing programme. The initiative now includes: Shenzhen, Suzhou, Xunyang, Chengdu, Shanghai, Hainan, Changsha, Xi&#8217;an, Qingdao, Dalian, Tianjin, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen and six cities in Zhejiang Province hosting the Asian Games.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/258749\/most-popular-global-mobile-messenger-apps\/\">Statista<\/a>, as of January 2022 WeChat had more than 1.2 billion users. In February 2021, it was reported that an entity affiliated with the WeBank app was among the first <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bloomberg-tencent-and-ant-group-backed-banks-to-test-the-digital-yuan\">to join the pilot testing<\/a> of the digital yuan.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2022, the Chinese food-delivery company Meituan <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/meituan-integrates-chinas-digital-yuan\">allowed partner merchants to accept e-CNY<\/a>. Coupons were promised to users for paying orders with the tool.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WeChat communication system, owned by the Chinese tech giant Tencent, has joined the testing of the digital yuan. Users of the app in the pilot programme regions can use the instrument as a payment method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[133,1135,1369],"class_list":["post-59753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-china","tag-wechat","tag-yuan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59755,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59753\/revisions\/59755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}