As a joint bank card organization in China, China UnionPay is in the core and pivotal position in the bank card industry in China and plays a fundamental role in the development of the bank card industry in China. Through the inter-bank transaction clearing system of UnionPay, banks have realized the interconnection between systems, thus realizing the inter-bank, inter-regional and cross-border use of bank cards. On the basis of building and operating the inter-bank transaction clearing system of UnionPay and realizing the universality of bank card networking, China UnionPay actively cooperates with commercial banks and other industrial parties to promote the unification of UnionPay card standards and norms and build its own brand of bank cards; Promote the development and application of bank cards; Maintain the market order of bank card acceptance and guard against bank card risks. Through the inter-bank transaction clearing system of UnionPay, the interconnection and resource sharing between commercial banking systems can be realized, and the inter-bank, inter-regional and cross-border use of bank cards can be ensured.
As of September 20 19, unionpay network has spread all over China, and has extended to Asia, Europe, America, Oceania, Africa and other 174 countries and regions [2].
20 19 12, China unionpay was selected as the brand of 20 19 China Brand Power Festival 100. [3] On August 3, 2020, KLOC-0, China UnionPay released its first digital bank card "UnionPay Unbounded Card". 202165438+February, Alipay and China UnionPay realized the mutual recognition of national payment scanning code.