China Financial IC Card Industry Chain Report, 2013-2016

China Financial IC Card Industry Chain Report, 2013-2016 of Sino Market Insight forecasts that by 2016 China will issue a total of 1.6 billion financial IC cards. As of the first quarter of 2013, China has issued a total of 192 million financial IC cards, including a net increase of 66 million in Q1. The annual growth is expected to be 200 million. According to the requirements of the People's Bank of China and China UnionPay, in 2013 financial IC cards among new bank cards shall achieve a penetration rate of about 30%. The development of financial IC card in China is primarily policy-driven. On March 15, 2011, the People's Bank of China issued the PBOC's Opinions on Promoting the Application of Financial IC Cards, which stimulated the transformation of national bank equipment to support financial IC cards, and required the ATMs of national commercial banks to accept financial IC cards by the end of 2012, and all networking GPTs that accept bank cards to accept financial

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