A customer uses her smartphone to pay at a McDonald’s in Shanghai. Pictures: Zigor Aldama

Going cash free: why China is light years ahead in the online payment revolution

We find out if it’s possible to live in Shanghai without paper money or bank cards and discover how online payments have dethroned cash as king in digital revolution that’s being led by two big players – Alipay and Tenpay

Topic | Mobile payments

Zigor Aldama

Published: 8:30pm, 9 Sep, 2017

Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018

A customer uses her smartphone to pay at a McDonald’s in Shanghai. Pictures: Zigor Aldama

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Zigor Aldama

Zigor Aldama is an award-winning journalist from Spain. Focused on social issues, he's been covering Asia from China since 1999. He lives in Shanghai and his work is currently published in Spanish by the newspapers of Vocento group and El País.