Does QR code belong to near-field payment?

No, from the perspective of technology suppliers, the two most mainstream methods of near-field payment: NFC and Felica (one of NFC specifications) are Sony's patents.

Japanese mobile phones are also equipped with NFC function, and a series of companies headed by Sony will naturally spare no effort to promote this technology.

Although the QR code is also a Japanese patent, its technical patent is free, and technology suppliers cannot profit from the QR code.

Finally, from the national point of view, NFC is actually a safer way of information exchange than QR code, so in the case of both, the country is naturally more willing to promote safer payment technology.

Market demand:

Statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics show that by the end of 20 17, the total number of registered legal entities (mainly enterprises) in China was18,097,700, while the number of ordinary self-employed households reached 65,793,700, more than 3.6 times the number of legal entities.

The number of self-employed people involved is as high as 6.5438+0.42253 million, which can be said that self-employed people are an indispensable part of China's market economy system.

According to Statistics Japan 2020 of the Japanese Ministry of Statistics, by the end of 20 16, there were 2 million self-employed households in Japan, with a total of 3,856,500 registered legal entities, and the number of self-employed households was only 52% of the number of private legal entities.

From the distribution of enterprise registration types, it can be seen that in the Japanese market, enterprises of a certain scale occupy the main position, while in China, more are individual vendors.