Reborn in 1984: Starting with the Development of the Chinese Character Card, Chapter 358: The Mobile Payment Frenzy. At 10:00 AM the following morning, Alipay issued a public announcement that it would officially plant trees in the desert on March 12th, Arbor Day, and welcomed volunteers from all over the country to participate in the tree planting activity!

The news immediately caused a sensation across the internet.

On that day, tens of thousands of people signed up to participate in the tree-planting activity.

Meanwhile, Ant Forest's popularity has surged again, attracting widespread attention.

Players' sense of participation and enthusiasm exploded instantly!

Chairman's office, Wujiang Building.

Zhao Ye looked at Alipay's recent data and couldn't help but feel satisfied.

"Ant Forest should be on the right track now, and the next step should be to vigorously develop mobile payment. I'm really looking forward to it!" Zhao Ye smiled, picked up his teacup, and took two sips.

"While people abroad are still using cash, credit cards, or bank cards for transactions, China has already popularized mobile payments. When you go out, you only need to carry a mobile phone. Just thinking about it makes me feel excited and proud!"

Zhao Ye took out his phone and played Jay Chou's new song "Compendium of Materia Medica," which was released last year.

If Hua Tuo were to be reborn

Those who worship foreign things are cured

Foreigners come to learn Chinese characters

Inspire our national consciousness

Strychnos nux-vomica and cassia seed

cocklebur and lotus seeds

..."

Zhao Ye leaned back in his chair, closed his eyes slightly, and listened to the music with a contented expression. Before he knew it, he had fallen asleep...

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At 3 p.m. that day, executives from Alipay, WeChat and Facebook rushed to Zhao Ye's office for a meeting.

Here, Zhao Ye introduced to the public for the first time how to use QR code technology to solve the problem of mobile payment.

"Using QR code technology for scanning payments will be the mainstream method of mobile payment in the future! Imagine when merchants print out their payment QR codes and post them in their stores, consumers can simply scan the QR code with their mobile phones to pay. This way, there is no need for cash transactions, which is very convenient! In the past, cash transactions were relatively slow and required change, which was quite troublesome!" Zhao Ye said with a smile.

As soon as he finished speaking, Facebook CEO Hung-Yuan Ching, Alipay CEO Gang-Yi Hu, Zhang Xiaolong, and others were immediately taken aback, but then their faces lit up with surprise.

"Chairman Zhao's vision is simply amazing! Such a convenient and efficient mobile payment method will inevitably change people's consumption habits and lifestyles, and has epoch-making significance!!!" Facebook CEO Qing Hongyuan said with admiration.

"Yes, Chairman Zhao, you are truly amazing! People will no longer need to carry cash when they go out, which was unimaginable before!" Hu Gangyi exclaimed.

Everyone praised and agreed, but the idea of ​​mobile payment was truly refreshing and astonishing to them.

Zhao Ye smiled faintly, and after a long pause, said to everyone, "It's really nothing, it's just that many people didn't think of it. Once this is cleared up, everyone will understand..."

He paused for a moment, then said, "You should know what to do next, so I don't need to go into details."

"Yes!" everyone replied in unison.

"Prepare as soon as possible, especially offline, to get merchants to support QR code payment!"

"Yes, Chairman Zhao!" Everyone nodded.

"Chairman Zhao, I think the consumer side is more important. We should motivate consumers to actively use mobile QR code payment. For example, if we hold an event where consumers can win a cash prize by scanning a QR code to pay offline, limited to 10 times per day, consumers will definitely use QR code payment enthusiastically, and merchants will inevitably support QR code payment to attract customers!" Zhang Xiaolong said excitedly.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Ye couldn't help but laugh and said, "That's a good suggestion. We don't need to send out a lot of ground promotion staff to visit merchants anymore. We can just spend the money on consumers and get them into the habit of scanning QR codes to pay!"

In my past life, vendors selling vegetables and fruits at rural markets were already using QR codes for payment. This was mainly because consumers had developed the habit of scanning codes to pay and rarely carried cash anymore. If vendors wanted to continue doing business with these people, they could simply make a change and print out the QR codes. It wasn't that difficult.

"Chairman Zhao, I think we can also guide public opinion and launch a challenge to see if we can survive for a month without carrying cash. Through this challenge, we can show everyone that mobile payment can replace cash transactions!" Facebook CEO Qing Hongyuan suggested.

Upon hearing this, Zhao Ye nodded: "President Qing's suggestion is also very good, we can give it a try!"

Before we knew it, it was almost time to get off work, and we had been chatting for more than two hours.

Zhao Ye glanced at his watch, summarized the afternoon's conversation, and then adjourned the meeting.

Starting the next day, Alipay, Facebook, and WeChat all began in-depth development of mobile payment.

The technical difficulty was not high, and it was all done in less than a week.

Subsequently, further testing was conducted for a period of time to verify technical and security issues.

By February 22, 2007, everything was ready except for the final push.

Before the mobile payment function is launched, at least some merchants must already support QR code payment.

Wujiang Group's offline market channels are quite impressive, including Wujiang flagship stores, Wujiang supermarkets, Wujiang convenience stores, as well as cinemas, hotels, hospitals, pharmacies, printing shops, and so on.

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