Beijing residents buy train tickets to pay by mobile phone

Ministry of Railways UnionPay explores innovative payment applications share research and development railway IC card (reporter Gaochenwu) buy train tickets are expected to pay through mobile phones. Yesterday, China UnionPay and the Ministry of Railways signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing.　　The two sides will deepen cooperation in payment channel improvement, railway financial product innovation, value-added service system construction and industry standard-setting, and jointly promote the electronic payment of railways. According to the agreement, the two sides ' business cooperation mainly includes: one is to rely on UnionPay card reception network and railway electronic payment platform, expand the bank card ticket processing, explore mobile phone, telephone, internet, automatic ticketing machine and other innovative payment applications; the other is to jointly research and develop the Financial standard railway IC card, to achieve the integration of credit card ticketing, ticket, fast travel　　Third, we should jointly explore and establish the card passenger service system, including VIP service, Alliance integral and so on. Four is to discuss the development and improvement of railway electronic payment industry standard. Luode, president of China UnionPay, said that during the Shanghai World Expo, the two sides in the Yangtze River delta part of the station in cooperation trial card purchase tickets, by the cardholder and passengers recognized and welcomed.　　The signing of the strategic cooperation Agreement between the two sides is exactly the extension of the earlier cooperation results, which is beneficial to the sharing of resources, complementary advantages and common improvement of railway financial services. The link uses the mobile phone short message two-dimensional code to take the bill media report, Henan Mobile will and Zhengzhou Railway Bureau to carry out "mobile phone booking, buy tickets" business, the specific method is divided into two kinds, a direct deduction of mobile phone charges as a ticket costs, one is the use of mobile wallet transfer, and then passengers to the railway station to pick up the ticket in the text of the two-dimensional Mobile companies will also set up automatic inquiry platform, train, price, time and so can be through this platform, the form of text messages sent directly to the people's mobile phone. However, the "use of mobile phone ticket" business to launch the specific time has not been finalized.