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Analysis of the Current Situation, Opportunities, Challenges and Countermeasures of China's Digital Payment System in the Post-epidemic Era
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Abstract
In recent years, under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, China's digital payment system has encountered significant opportunities, challenges, and changes. The digital payment system mainly includes three parts: electronic currency, electronic payment, and digital currency. This paper takes the perspective of the post-pandemic era and integrates the previous research on the digital payment system. It comprehensively analyzes the current situation, challenges, and development opportunities of China's digital payment system from different angles by examining the development of China's digital payment market. It is found that the pandemic has stimulated the continuous development of digital payment, gradually replacing cash settlement. In the post-pandemic era, emerging industries have shown strong vitality for digital payment. However, digital payment also has risks of inadequate information security, digital divide, and private enterprise monopolies. In the post-pandemic era, digital payment has more development opportunities and presents a sustainable development trend with the promotion of legal digital currency, stimulation of emerging industries, and support of government policies. This article proposes corresponding forward-looking suggestions from the perspectives of governments, companies, and individuals to further promote the development of China's future digital payment system in response to the above risks. Specifically, it should improve risk control and data security protection mechanisms, help vulnerable groups cross the digital divide and mobile payment dilemma, and accelerate the promotion and use of China's legal digital currency.
Keywords
digital payments, COVID-19 pandemic, digital currency, financial technology
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Economic Management and Green Development
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-099-8
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-100-1
- Published Date
- 10 November 2023
- Series
- Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences
- ISSN (Print)
- 2754-1169
- ISSN (Online)
- 2754-1177
- DOI
- 10.54254/2754-1169/39/20231944
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- 10 November 2023
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