WeChat Pay Starts Using China’s Unified QR for Foreign Wallets

China unified QR payment gateway expands as WeChat Pay and Alipay shift cross-border traffic, easing payments for foreign visitors.
The logo of Alipay, January 2025. China unified QR payment gateway expands as WeChat Pay and Alipay shift cross-border traffic, easing payments for foreign visitors. (Photo Illustration by Costfoto/NurPhoto) (Photo by CFOTO / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

WeChat Pay’s international arm, Tenpay Global, is now integrated into China’s unified QR payment gateway, which has begun handling live cross-border traffic from overseas wallets.

Regulators say the shift lets them see far more of the overseas wallet traffic moving through China’s payments system. A change they view as the start of a broader rollout.

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