Why did the Myanmar government ban Chinese tourists from using WeChat and Alipay in Myanmar?

Myanmar allows the use of Alipay and WeChat for consumption, initially for a trial period. After the trial period, Myanmar will also determine whether it needs to be able to accept consumption methods such as Alipay and WeChat based on the actual situation. The reason why Myanmar rejects Alipay and WeChat Pay is because it is found that using these two payment methods will lead to lower taxes and is not applicable to the local area. Therefore, it is said that Myanmar was notified of banning their use just a few months after they were trialled. This is also true. reason. The consumption patterns that belong to our country may not necessarily adapt to other places, and this also requires a process to be accepted.

The past few months of trial implementation of Alipay and WeChat in Myanmar have actually brought a lot of benefits to Myanmar. For example, the total number of people traveling to Myanmar in a year is 2.13 million, but Chinese account for 600,000. Such huge data is because these two consumption items allow Chinese people to spend money in Myanmar and bring convenience to Chinese people. In fact, Myanmar has such good tourism data because it is relatively close to China.

A big reason why Myanmar stopped using Alipay and WeChat payment is because there are not many merchants in Myanmar that can use Alipay and WeChat payment. These two consumption methods are not popular in all merchants. Because it is a trial period, the area used will not be large. There are only 14 merchants in Myanmar that can use these two payment methods, and they are also set up based on places where local people are concentrated.

Alipay and WeChat are already two payment methods commonly used by Chinese people. If these two payment methods are stopped in Myanmar, the problem that will arise in the future is that there will be fewer tourists traveling to Myanmar. However, there is also news that Alipay and WeChat payment will still be open to use in the future, but better adjustments are needed now. The adjustment is to prevent Myanmar from causing losses to the country's economy when using Alipay and WeChat, and to make these two consumption methods more popular.