Is the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics also a Winter Olympics that embodies China's science and technology?

This is a conference that reflects the understanding of China, science and technology and finance.

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, which attracts worldwide attention, is not only a wonderful sports event, but also a symbolic economic event. In the 2022 Winter Olympics, the digital RMB made its first public appearance at an international event, which became the focus of attention of all parties.

According to the interface journalist, as a cooperative bank of the Winter Olympics, China Bank is responsible for the cash service in local and foreign currencies and the closed-loop operation of digital RMB in the Beijing Winter Olympics. In addition, Bank of China, Visa and UnionPay jointly issued a double-label credit card with the theme of the Winter Olympics.

In 2020, the Beijing Winter Olympics was first identified as one of the "ten places and one scene" of the digital RMB pilot. From June 5438 to February 2020, the pilot application of digital RMB for the Winter Olympics was launched on the Daxing Airport Line of Beijing Metro. Shen Xue, the world champion of figure skating, used digital RMB to buy the first subway ticket in Beijing, and experienced the use of a wallet with the characteristics of the Winter Olympics to pass through the gate, marking the official start of the pilot.

Liu Liange, chairman of Bank of China, said in an interview with the media that the appearance of digital RMB in the Winter Olympics was an important achievement of "Winter Olympics through Science and Technology". As an operator of digital RMB designated by the People's Bank of China, Bank of China has gone all out to support the application, promotion and publicity of digital RMB in Beijing Winter Olympics.

By the end of February, 20021and 65438+,China Bank had created more than 40000 acceptance scenarios in Beijing and Zhangjiakou, covering the diversified needs of "eating, living, traveling, shopping and entertainment". According to the data of the central bank, by the end of 20021,2.6110,000 digital RMB personal wallets had been opened, and the transaction amount had reached 87.565 billion yuan.

According to the interface journalist, during the Beijing Winter Olympics, China Bank can provide two kinds of digital RMB payment services: soft wallet and hardware wallet.

Digital RMB card-type hard wallet

Among them, the soft wallet service is provided through the digital RMB APP, which is similar to the mobile payment used by users every day, and the operation is simple and convenient. According to the different authentication methods and real names, wallets can be divided into one, two, three and four categories. Among them, the fourth type of wallet can only be opened by mobile phone number.

Hard wallets provide services in the form of physical wallets, and the corresponding exclusive products such as cards and bracelets are named "Ice Core" and "Snow Ring" respectively. During the Winter Olympics, users can handle wallet services at China Bank outlets, Winter Olympics contracted hotels and Visa customer service centers in the Winter Olympics area, and experience payment services at businesses that accept digital RMB.

Digital RMB gloves hard wallet

In view of the cooperation between Bank of China and Visa in launching the hard wallet of digital RMB for the Winter Olympics and creating an acceptance environment for digital RMB within the safe red line of the Winter Olympics, Yu Zeng, president of Visa Greater China, publicly stated that he was very happy to cooperate with Bank of China and local institutions to create payment facilities and provide various forms of safe and convenient payment experience for the Winter Olympics.

In the actual experience, the digital RMB payment method of the Winter Olympics is equivalent to having a prepaid electronic RMB card with cash recharge, and there is no need to pay any handling fee, while Visa credit card will charge international payment handling fee according to the number of transactions.