Mobile payment is the "gene" of new finance and, combined with a fresh generation of financial deman, is set to generate an increasing number of "financing species," said an expert at a forum in on Thursday.
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In his remarks to the 2014 Mobile Internet Development Conference, Huang said the financial company with able to spearhead mobile payment technology will win the mobile Internet market.
The combined volume of mobile payment transactions surged 800.3 percent to 1.30 trillion yuan ($209.21 billion) in 2013, according to statistics from EnfoDesk Analysys International, an online research firm.
Alipay, the online payment arm of e-commerce giant , overshadowed its peers by taking a lion's share of 69.6 percent of the market, according to EnfoDesk.
The rise of mobile payment is a result of the spillover effect of Internet penetration, according to Huang, who is also the co-founder of Club 1000.
More than 500 million Chinese were using mobile devices, primarily smartphones, to connect to the Internet in 2013, according to the 皇冠体育app Internet Network Information Center. At the same time, the penetration rate of mobile Internet users rose to a record 81 percent.