A customer scans QR code image on the business card of sausage store owner Yu at a market in Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang province, Jan 5, 2015. Customers welcome the method to pay with their smartphones because it is clean and quick. China’s e-commerce leaders like Alibaba and Tencent have been promoting the new payment way in shopping or taking a taxi. [Photo: China News Service/Li Chenyun] |