The number of merchants accepting bankcards, POS machines and ATMs is 390,000, 610,000 and 80,000 respectively, which is 3.5 times, 3.9 times and 2.1 times as much as that of five years ago.
More and more people have got used to the use of bankcards, and excluding the wholesale and real estate transactions, the proportion of consumption related bankcard transactions out of the total retail sales of consumer goods increased from 2.1% five years ago to nearly 10%.