WeChat is top workplace communications app for 90 per cent of Chinese professionals

About 57 per cent of the surveyed WeChat users say their new contacts on the app are work related. Photo: Xinhua

Phone calls, emails and faxes move over. WeChat, China’s top social networking app initially designed for close friends to chitchat, is quietly taking over workplaces across the country, a study has found.

Operated by the Hong Kong-listed Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings, WeChat – more often known as Weixin – on the mainland, is already the dominant app in the country with 889 million monthly active users. It is used to send instant messages, buy movie tickets, pay utility bills, as well as for other services that make people’s personal lives more convenient.

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