Cashless in China: An experiment with mobile payments for a day
The task is simple, my editor told me. Try going around without cash for one entire day and rely only on mobile phone for payments.
Easy, I thought. These days in most Chinese cities, many are using a smartphone to pay for just about anything, and I am no exception. But is it really possible to last a day without cash, and on a day that I have to travel across Beijing to conduct interviews too?
And so, let’s start this from the moment I left my house and headed to work.
SOURCE: Channel News Asia