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During a conference, China’s Alipay and Thailand’s Kasikorn Bank said on Saturday in Bangkok that they will cooperate to promote QR code payment in Thailand.

The Thai Bank has already developed a mobile app which supports QR code payment for the Thai market. Chinese tourists can use Alipay app to scan the QR code given by the Kasikorn app to finish the buying with Thai sellers.

“My customers are mainly Chinese and we just began to use the Kasikorn app a few days ago and we hope it will make buying more convenient for the Chinese customers," said Piyanas, a woman selling clothes. Viu, owner of a shop selling colorful notebooks, said that she began to use the app this morning and one Chinese tourist had paid her by Alipay soon after.

Alipay also said that there are some 20,000 Thai businesses using their service and they aim to provide the convenience of QR Code payment, enjoyed by many Chinese now, to Thais, which go with Thai government’s goal of cashless society.

“I have been to China for many times and we hope Chinese tourists can encourage our society to use e-payment,” said a manager of Kasikorn Bank, adding that Thai customers can also use their app to scan and to pay.

The bank said their app is the first one that supports QR Code payment in Thailand and they aim to cover some 200,000 shops around the kingdom by the end of this year.