China UnionPay was established in March 2002. With the approval of the State Council and the approval of the People's Bank of China, China Bank Card Association is headquartered in Shanghai. By the end of 2020 1 1, the global acceptance network of unionpay cards has been extended to 179 countries and regions, and more than 9 billion unionpay cards have been issued at home and abroad.
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 been extended to 174 countries and regions outside Asia, Europe, America, Oceania and Africa.
20 19 12, China unionpay was selected as the brand of 20 19 China Brand Power Festival 100. On August 3, 2020, KLOC-0, China UnionPay released the first digital bank card "UnionPay Unbounded Card". 202165438+February, Alipay and China UnionPay realized the mutual recognition of national payment scanning code.