A NEWS REPORT of Kaifa SMART PAYMEMT TERMINAL PUBLISHED ON SHENZHEN ECONOMIC DAILY By Chenshu China Union Pay announced"Quick Pass"has started supporting Apple Pay service. The first smart payment terminals released by Kaifa were installed on Shenzhen taxies. The payment terminal adds Apple Pay function besides Shenzhen Card, Bank Card, Wechat and Alipay. The reporter witnessed that the personnel has installed the smart payment terminal on a new BYD e6 taxi. The smart payment terminal is a little bigger than six-inch phone. The reporter noticed that when the taxi arrived at destination, driver only pressed the stop button, the terminal would show amount payable, if passenger’s phone has bound with Apple Pay, they only took phone near the terminal, payment would be ended with the sound of “di”. Or passengers could pay through scanning Quick Response code. It is known that Kaifa has provided three thousand terminal machines that will be successively installed on Shenzhen new taxies. “This smart payment terminal GPRS communication module practically links to Union Pay or third-party front platform in real time to achieve data upload and settlement, which avoids human error. The process that amount will be sent to taximeter after paying by card, expenditure and original amount will be also appeared on taxi invoice can be and be tracked.” Marketing Director of Kaifa Commercial and Industrial Business Unit, Zhadaoyou said. He also addressed that this officially online smart payment terminal is national first terminal that supports transportation card, Wechat, financial IC card and NFC mobile payment, which also means Shenzhen is the first city that offers the safest payment method at the same time. Additionally, the time from taximeter amount returning to terminal to finish payment merely needs about one second. However, not all bank IC cards can be used. Kaifa staff explained that’ s because China Union Pay launched small payment of Union Pay card without pin and signature service pilots last year and regulated merchants did not need signatures and passwords under three hundred yuan when using “Quick Pass”. At present, released chip credit card and debit card of ICBC (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China) and Bank of China have opened. By April, 2016, Union Pay chip credit card will entirety support this function, more and more bank chip debit card will follow at that time. Wangyonghong, Director of department of science and technology of The People"s Bank of China, once proposed "domestic mobile payment can be divided into three categories: Quick Pass, QR Code Scan and Account Transfer. With application of Apple Pay and Samsung payment and domestic mobile payment environment improvement, "Quick Pass" will quickly develop in 2017. " Zha described, " this kind of smart terminals will be promoted in the market and communitiy in the future. Furthermore, Shenzhen citizens can pay through "patting payment", whatever taking a taxi or going grocery shopping. ”