JD.com becomes China’s first online mall to test digital yuan

  • The digital yuan has been used in more than four million transactions, worth a total of about 2 billion yuan (US$306 million), as of early last month

File photo taken June 2, 2020, shows the headquarters of Chinese e-commerce company JD.com, Inc. Photo: Kyodo

JD.com, China’s second-biggest online retailer, will become the country’s first virtual mall to use digital yuan, the cryptocurrency backed by the central bank.

JD Digits, the e-commerce giant’s fintech affiliate, will launch a pilot program this month, and customers will pay for certain items with digital yuan, it said on its official WeChat account. About 100,000 digital cash vouchers, worth 20 million yuan in total, will be issued to residents of Suzhou city in the eastern province of Jiangsu on December 11.

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