On January 26, the reporter learned from Beijing local financial supervision and administration bureau that by the end of 2021, Beijing had opened more than 12 million digital RMB personal money bags and 1.3 million public wallets, covering more than 400000 Winter Olympics scenes such as food, housing, transportation, travel, shopping, entertainment and medicine, with a transaction amount of 9.6 billion yuan.
In the past year since the pilot application of digital RMB Winter Olympics was launched, the innovative achievements of the application have been displayed through the Winter Olympics scene, based on the scientific and technological Winter Olympics and the construction of smart Winter Olympics, the pilot deployment of innovative application scenes such as unmanned vending vehicles, self-service vending machines and unmanned supermarkets, and the introduction of wearable payment devices such as payment gloves, payment badges and payment clothes. By the end of 2021, the construction of the payment environment for the Winter Olympics outside the closed loop was successfully completed, and the pilot of the digital RMB Winter Olympics scene was steadily promoted, creating a safe, convenient and efficient digital RMB payment environment for the high-tech Winter Olympics.
Diversified scene coverage to help the construction of international consumption center cities. Beijing’s digital RMB pilot project focuses on multi scene coverage, and has participated in the construction of Beijing’s international consumption center city. It has formed a series of characteristic activities and consumption scenes such as “digital Wangfujing Group Co.Ltd(600859) “, “ice and snow Shopping Festival” and “Beijing color striver digital Carnival”, which meet the diversified and convenient consumption needs of residents, It has promoted the development of new consumption scenarios and the promotion of digital RMB, and helped build an international consumption center city.
Integrate people-friendly services and create application scenarios close to people’s livelihood. In October 2021, with the launch of the “Beijing Caihui people’s livelihood digital Carnival”, the pilot of digital RMB gradually entered more common, small and high-frequency areas of people’s livelihood. While facilitating the payment needs of public life, it helps to further improve citizens’ digital literacy and improve the level and efficiency of urban basic financial services.
In the field of government service scenarios, the pilot work of digital RMB has created a number of “first case” applications. For the first time in Beijing, many units use digital RMB to pay Party dues; Fengtai District government service center supports the use of digital RMB to pay fees, and launched the city’s first application scenario of government service digital RMB; Dongcheng District Taxation Bureau collects the corresponding tax on rental houses through digital RMB, marking the landing of digital RMB tax payment scene in Beijing. These achievements reflect the innovative application of smart government, and are also an active exploration of optimizing the business environment.
After pilot exploration, the construction of Beijing’s digital RMB ecosystem has been continuously improved. In September 2021, China service trade fair, China (Beijing) digital Finance Forum and Financial Street Holdings Co.Ltd(000402) forum were held successively. The digital RMB Avenue and digital RMB professional exhibition area were unveiled. By providing on-site immersive experience, the development ecology of the whole scene construction of digital RMB in Beijing was fully displayed; The National Digital financial technology testing center jointly built by the Institute and Lize financial business district was officially unveiled; Under the framework of the “two regions” policy, the Beijing legal digital currency pilot zone has been listed in the sub center, Fengtai, Shunyi and other regions, and the advantages and significance of digital RMB as a legal digital currency continue to appear.
The Beijing Municipal Bureau of local financial supervision and Administration said that over the past year, Beijing’s digital RMB pilot has generally operated well, which has played a positive role in enhancing public awareness and willingness to use. It has also laid a solid foundation for Beijing to build an international consumption center and smart city and build a benchmark city of the global digital economy.
Next, we will continue to steadily and orderly deepen the pilot of digital RMB, focus on meeting China’s retail payment needs, use digital RMB in more scenarios such as retail transactions, living payment and government services, and build a global digital economy benchmark city with the advantages of smart financial services; At the same time, we will continue to rely on the digital currency Research Institute of the people’s Bank of China as the core, support the continuous implementation of key digital financial institutions and major projects, and create a good development ecology of digital RMB technology and application.
