Apple Pay has officially entred the Chinese market at 5:00 am on Feb.18, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua]
Apple Pay is now available on the Chinese mainland.
Several banks across the country have already launched support for Apple Pay, including Bank of China and China Construction Bank.
More than a dozen other lenders are expected to join up with Apple Pay in the coming days.
Apple Pay is now available after it struck a deal with China UnionPay, which dominates bank-card payments in China.
China is the world's fifth Apple Pay market behind the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia.
For more on this, we're joined by Cao Can, CRI's financial commentator.
