WeChat users are going one step ahead, by making their own QR code as their facebook profile pic. This new way to connect is fun and hassle-free without any need to exchange pins, numbers, ids or ...

Photo: VCG/Getty Images The way Chinese smartphone users pay for lunch and browse the internet owes much to an obsession that the founder of messaging app WeChat has with quick-response, or QR, codes.

The scale of the QR Code Economy driven by WeChat in 2019 reached RMB 8.58 trillion, which generated 29.63 million employment opportunities in total.

Cash is becoming a rarity too, as nearly every merchant in China accepts mobile payments through WeChat. Even panhandlers in China use WeChat to make money using WeChat QR codes.

UnionPay app users are now able to scan WeChat QR codes to make payments. WeChat does not currently make payments to UnionPay QR codes, instead suggesting the user download another app in a TechNode ...

The scale of the QR Code Economy driven by WeChat in 2019 reached RMB 8.58 trillion, which generated 29.63 million employment opportunities in total.

The scale of the QR Code Economy driven by WeChat in 2019 reached RMB 8.58 trillion, which generated 29.63 million employment opportunities in total.