Starting from January 1st this year, the "Beijing Service" airport service point officially launched at the arrival level of Beijing Capital International Airport and Beijing Daxing International Airport, providing one-stop convenience services for foreign inbound tourists. Among them, the "Two-card Integration" terminal provides innovative payment and communication product solutions for overseas tourists, further enhancing the convenience experience of traveling to Beijing.
The innovative product solution of "Two-card Integration" is based on China UnionPay's latest "card transcoding" technology and innovative integration terminal, realizing the cross-border integration of bank card and communication card services. Through the close cooperation of Beijing Bank, China UnionPay, and Beijing Unicom, one-stop services such as bank card account opening, communication card processing, consumption scanning payment, terminal equipment leasing, portable WIFI, translation, etc. are provided for inbound personnel.
It is reported that the innovative product of "Two-card Integration" can provide exclusive physical and electronic virtual card account services for inbound personnel. It can not only insert Beijing Unicom SIM card to achieve device internet access, receive text messages, and provide WIFI function to other devices, but also insert Beijing Bank physical card or bind electronic virtual card to achieve payment function, realizing physical card "plug-in transcoding payment". Beijing Unicom provides three short-term communication card products to meet the flow and voice communication needs of inbound personnel in different scenarios from short-term stays to long-term travel, and will be automatically cancelled upon expiration. At the same time, the innovative integration terminal can also flexibly expand and install translation and other application services according to the needs of inbound tourists.
The innovative integration terminal's scanning payment basically covers high-frequency hotspots such as "food, accommodation, transportation, tourism, shopping, and entertainment" required by inbound tourists. Foreign visitors to China holding exclusive devices can easily complete payment by simply scanning, whether shopping in a mall, dining in a restaurant, or buying specialty souvenirs on the street. Currently, these two products have been opened for product experience and use through the airport service center, Beijing Unicom business hall, etc. After continuous testing and improvement and meeting regulatory standards, they will be officially launched in the market and expand the scope of product use.
Since 2024, the People's Bank of China Beijing Branch, the Municipal Financial Office of the Municipal Party Committee, and more than 20 departments including Beijing Transportation, Culture and Tourism, and Commerce, as well as district governments, have built a three-dimensional work mechanism of central-local coordination and city-district linkage, and have taken the lead in implementing ten innovative measures in the mainland of China, such as using foreign cards to pass through subway gates and achieving full coverage of foreign currency exchange service facilities in four- and five-star hotels and key cultural and tourism venues.
According to statistics, by the end of 2024, 18,000 key merchants in Beijing will achieve full coverage of foreign card acceptance, 11,400 ATMs will support foreign card withdrawals, and two airport payment service demonstration areas have provided consultation and guidance services for 31,000 foreign guests. A total of 1.07 million transactions have been processed for foreign card swiping, foreign currency exchange, and foreign card withdrawals, amounting to approximately 550 million yuan.
