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It would be an understatement to say that life without WeChat in China would be a hell of a lot more inconvenient – for many of us it has replaced our wallet, allows us to keep up with friends and family, and more or less necessitates opening your browser with its efficient ecosystem of travel, tickets, and utility functions.
WeChat founder Allen Zhang
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WeChat attracts over 300 million daily users, with an estimated 1.151 billion active monthly users.
The number of mini-programs used per person increased by 98 percent from last year.
The peak time usage for WeChat official accounts is 9pm, and for mini-games it's 8pm. Peak time general usage (messaging, browsing Moments etc.) are during the hours preceding lunch and after-work hours.
The top WeChat Moments "check-in" cities in China are Guangzhou, Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Chengdu. Internationally, the top five foreign cities are Seoul, Osaka, Jeju, Bangkok, and Singapore.
In 2019, the number of average daily cross-border payments (WeChat Pay transactions made overseas) increased by 76 percent.
The "facepalm" emoji remained China users' favorite emoji, followed by "grin," "chuckle," "thumbs up," and the "rose."
The total transactions generated via Mini-Program surpassed RMB 800 billion, a 160 percent increase on the year prior.
WeChat has directly and indirectly created 26.1 million jobs, although how WeChat arrived at this figure, and what exactly it means, is not clear.
79.4 percent of outlets in China use WeChat Pay.
Females receive 58 percent of all hongbao, while males received 16 percent fewer at 42 percent.
Finally, one of WeChat’s newest features is not really a new feature at all: they're simply planning to ease off the 5,000 friend limit per user restriction, though by how much they'll increase the cap is currently unknown – the system is currently in beta testing. Because what we really need in life are more shallow, transactional, digital-only relationships.
READ: China's SIM Card Registration Laws Among the World's Strictest
Images: s-ge.com, pandaily.com
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