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2026
UnionPay partners on Kulangsu poetry and fundraising campaign
UnionPay partnered with the Kulangsu Poetry Festival on a campaign at Xiamen's Piano Ferry Terminal. Visitors could use point-of-sale machines to buy poems written by children in rural areas for one yuan; donations were to fund art and literature lessons.
2026
NOL World launches accommodation booking service in South Korea
NOL World, the Korea inbound travel platform under NOL Universe, launched an accommodation booking service covering more than 15,000 lodging properties across South Korea, with search optimized around major K-pop concert venues. To mark the launch, NOL World offered users discounts of up to 10% from July 28 to August 18, 2026, and announced a UnionPay promotion of up to 40,000 Korean won in random discounts running through the end of 2026.
2022
UnionPay and the Digital Currency Research Institute enter strategic cooperation
UnionPay entered a strategic cooperation agreement with the Digital Currency Research Institute for its digital yuan initiative.
2021
UnionPay upgrades Mobile QuickPass
UnionPay upgraded its Mobile QuickPass service, enabling payments across online and offline scenarios inside and outside China, with additional payment solutions and value-added services.
2021
UnionPay launches unified checkout and upgraded mobile QuickPass
China UnionPay, together with industry partners, launched UnionPay Unified Checkout and a newly upgraded UnionPay Mobile QuickPass.
2021
China UnionPay and Guizhou sign strategic cooperation agreement
China UnionPay and the Guizhou Provincial People's Government signed a strategic cooperation agreement covering inclusive finance, consumer activity, digital public services, tourism and other areas.
2021
AirPay FinTech announces eCommerce partnership with UnionPay
AirPay FinTech announced an eCommerce partnership with UnionPay to offer UnionPay Online Payment in Australia.
2020
UnionPay International and ADIB enable contactless payments on 15,000 UAE terminals
UnionPay International partnered with Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank to enable UnionPay card and contactless payment transactions on the bank's 15,000 NFC terminals in the UAE. The bank said all of its POS terminals had been enabled for contactless payment service.
2020
Lotte Duty Free launches UnionPay App payments in Korea
Lotte Duty Free launched the UnionPay App payment service in Korea, allowing customers to pay through its ecommerce site after installing the app and storing card details.
2020
China UnionPay and SPD Bank sign strategic cooperation agreement
China UnionPay and SPD Bank signed a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement covering areas including card issuance and acceptance, payment clearing, cross-border payments, mobile services, inclusive finance, data, and risk control.
2020
Tencent Cloud and China UnionPay agree on UnionPay Cloud project
Tencent Cloud and China UnionPay agreed to work together on UnionPay Cloud, with Tencent Cloud providing cloud solutions and capabilities to help build the financial cloud ecosystem.
2020
Xiaomi Guangfa co-branded credit card launched
Xiaomi Wallet announced the Xiaomi Guangfa co-branded credit card with China UnionPay and Guangfa Credit Card. Cardholders meeting the monthly spending requirements can claim a Xiaomi smart product the following month during the stated promotion period.
2020
Huawei launches Huawei Card
Huawei launched Huawei Card, a UnionPay-standard digital bank card developed with UnionPay and based on HUAWEI Pay, with both digital and physical card attributes.
2020
Tencent and UnionPay announce planned mobile payment integration
Tencent and China UnionPay announced plans to bring together their mobile payment QR-code systems, allowing customers to use WeChat Pay or UnionPay QuickPass with the same scannable code. Tencent said it would work with UnionPay on a trial basis.
2019
Cloud QuickPass announces Double Twelve offers in Beijing
UnionPay announced that Beijing-area users paying with Cloud QuickPass or UnionPay mobile QuickPass at designated merchants from December 12 through 15 could receive discounts, including half-price offers and reductions.
2019
Yipay signs cooperation agreements with more than 20 partners
Yipay and more than 20 partners signed cooperation agreements covering UnionPay cooperation, inclusive finance, a benefits alliance, and technology cooperation.
2019
UnionPay Cloud QuickPass releases version 7.0
UnionPay Cloud QuickPass released app version 7.0, with a comprehensive information-architecture upgrade and user-experience optimizations.
2019
UnionPay and banks launch Face Pay
China UnionPay and more than 60 institutions, including commercial banks, jointly launched the Face Pay product at a forum in Wuzhen, Zhejiang. The product enables customers to pay by face recognition and a payment password in participating merchants' settings.
2019
Blockchain-based Service Network launched
The Blockchain-based Service Network (BSN) was formally launched by the National Information Center, China Mobile and China UnionPay as a nationwide blockchain-services infrastructure platform.