---- Repräsentant von Zahlungen durch Apple, alipay von Alibaba Group, WeChat Zahlung und QQ Zahlung von Tencent, und China UnionPay wird dargestellt a
--FILE--A signboard of payments through Apple Pay, Alipay of Alibaba Group, WeChat Payment and QQ Payment of Tencent, and China UnionPay is pictured at a store in Guangzhou city, south China's Guangdong province, 11 May 2017. People in China made more payments with mobile phones in the first quarter of 2017, central bank data showed Thursday. Chinese commercial banks dealt with 9.3 billion payments from mobile banking services in Q1, up 65.7 percent from a year ago, the People's Bank of China, the central bank, said in a report. Combined value of mobile payments rose 16.4 percent to 60.65 trillion yuan (9 trillion U.S. dollars). The surge is partly due to the number of mobile phone users in China. At the end of April, there were 1.35 billion mobile phone users, of which more than 1 billion had broadband Internet access.
