Glad that it's happening, hopefully more and more merchants will accept it as payment soon.

Great news! Still waiting for their official launch which should be happening soon.

As I will also be visiting China in the near future, I’m just curious how do u top up your wallet?

i assume you are asking how do you top up China wallet?

one of the ways is, when you are in China, you pay your hotel receptionist an amount of money in cash (say, 500 yuan), then he can send you hongbao worth 500 yuan to your wechat. click and open the hongbao to recieve the money, and it will be in your China wallet.

My China friends working in Malaysia can help to top up for me on favour basis.

I was told, without your own China card linked to your China wallet, there is a limit you can spend per day or per transaction. Even if you have plenty of money in your wallet, you can't use it.

any "benefit" yet? like cash back?

Nope.

I Googled and WeChat FAQ says RMB 1k per day and RMB 2k per month, however I have transferred RMB 1.5k with one transaction to my aunt's China relative 2-3 months ago. No issue at all.

Most of my payments in China were usually paid by my best friend and I have not used my wallet more than RMB 2k so far, I will try to use as much as I can this time.

This post has been edited by fruitie: Aug 12 2018, 10:53 PM

Had a China trip lately, limit is definitely rmb 1k per day, but not 2k per month

But if u have a transaction more than 1k, or the transaction will bring ur total spending to more than 1k, it will still go through, n will block u starting from the next one

Thanks for the tips. If one day RMB 1k per day and not RMB 2k per month I'm still OK. I can alternate both WeChat and AliPay.
Block for that day only right? Next day will reopen?

Just convenience since it is widely used in China.

It will not work with MY wallet. When you in China, you need to switch it to China Wallet with RMB
Enjoy cashless convenience in China.


Get your friend to transfer to your wallet.


Not really. Unless using Alipay, there are several promotions. In early day China doesn't have credit card, most people use debit card, the wallet provide them the convenience way to link up their money to ewallet.

Yes, I knew about this and I do have China wallet which I always use there.

Yup, block for that day n reopen next day

Btw, which wallet u prefer to use? Alipay or Wechat?

This post has been edited by tanaumaga: Aug 13 2018, 12:38 PM

OK cool

No preference but I used WeChat more because I had issue with AliPay earlier. Now just solved the issue with AliPay and will be my first time using AliPay in China this time. I do see more discounts with AliPay.

so if let say i link my visa credit card in wechat, can i use it in china? or should i notify local bank first so it can be used in china?

you will need a China card to link to China wallet.

Malaysia wallet cannot be used in China.

Is that possible?

if I topup money into WeChat pay from Malaysia. Then I transfer money from WeChat pay from my account to WeChat pay from china.

Not possible because you can't perform cross platform transfer between the two wallets.