As China expands the visa-free policy for more countries,more foreigners choose to travel to China,and "China Travel" goes viral on overseas social media.

In this upsurge of China inbound tourism,Shenyang has made an impressive performance,ranking among the top 15 popular cities for inbound tourism.

To facilitate inbound foreign tourists' travel, shopping and payments,Shenyang's "International Friendly Consumption Business Circle" and "Payment Convenience Demonstration Zone" were initiated recently.

After going through the experience,several young people from Hungary and the United States gave a thumbs-up to mobile payment,holding the belief that traveling in China is highly convenient and it is adequate to merely bring a mobile phone and a power bank.

In Shenyang,inbound individuals are able to pay with bank cards,QR codes, cash and others.

Regarding the QR code payment,inbound individuals can avail of the two payment solutions offered by the Alipay:add overseas bank cards to domestic e-wallets and pay to domestic merchants with overseas e-wallets.

How do foreigners scan a QR code for payment?Come and have a look at these two approaches!

▶Add international bank cards to the Alipay app

After downloading and installing the Alipay app, sign in with the mobile phone number, e-mail or Apple ID. For inbound tourists from nearly 200 countries and regions, they can input the card numbers of international bank cards such as Visa, Mastercard, JCB, Discover® and Diners Club International® for binding and usage.

▶The users of 12 kinds of e-wallets can directly scan the QR code for consumption

The users of 12 kinds of e-wallets can directly scan the QR code for consumption at the merchants. The e-wallets include AlipayHK (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China), Touch 'n Go eWallet (Malaysia), Kakao Pay (the ROK), MPay (Macao Special Administrative Region of China), HiPay (Mongolia), Changi Pay (Singapore), OCBC Bank (Singapore), Naver Pay (the ROK), Toss Pay (the ROK), TrueMoney (Thailand), NayaPay (Pakistan) and Kaspi.kz (Kazakhstan).