E-CNY Available on Self-Service Vending Machine in Changsha

The first self-service vending machines offering digital yuan (e-CNY) services recently opened in Changsha, Central China's Hunan Province.

They were developed by CEC Industrial Internet, a subsidiary of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), which was selected as a pilot enterprise to develop e-CNY in Hunan in 2020.

E-CNY has been developed to be used in quite a few payment situations like shopping, catering, traveling, gas refueling and posting. The newly launched self-service retailing e-CNY brings the use of the digital yuan even closer to people's lives.

In the future, e-CNY will be available on nearly 1,000 self-service vending machines in Changsha and is intended to be used in hospitals, schools and neighborhoods.

It will also be promoted for consumption-driven poverty alleviation projects to support sales of agricultural products, contributing to consolidation of poverty alleviation achievements and rural vitalization.

A view of the payment page on a self-service vending machine (L) and a screen shot of the e-CNY payment page on a smart phone (R) [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]

(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)