From June 23 to 26, the 2026 China International Supply Chain Promotion Expo officially opened in Beijing.
As a representative of the international payment industry that has participated in the exhibition for four consecutive years, Visa will present its latest achievements covering the fields of trusted payment infrastructure, global capital flow solutions, data intelligence and AI-driven commerce, comprehensively demonstrating the diverse capabilities of the global payment network to improve supply chain efficiency and promote resilient business growth.
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Yin Xiaolong, President of Visa China, said that with the accelerated restructuring of the global supply chain, the development challenge of enterprises has shifted from single-point efficiency improvement to cross-regional, multi-subject, and strong collaborative systemic capability building.
Relying on its global payment network and localized cooperation ecosystem, Visa is building a more stable and efficient payment infrastructure for the upstream and downstream of the industry chain by connecting consumers, enterprises, data intelligence and trusted AI, and assisting the high-quality development of the real economy.
In terms of inbound payment ecological construction, Visa’s results exhibited this time show that Beijing’s “Central Axis Accessible Payment Tourism Demonstration Zone” has empowered more than 5,000 small and micro enterprises to complete the upgrade of foreign card acceptance; Shanghai’s “Visa Friendly Payment Demonstration Zone” optimizes the acceptance environment along eight major international tourism routes and innovates convenient acceptance solutions such as landing mobile phone cameras to scan codes.
In high-frequency livelihood scenarios such as transportation, Visa continues to expand the coverage of the “click and ride” experience and has now landed in many domestic core cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Guangzhou.
To meet the needs of enterprises, Visa this time also focused on presenting full-stack commercial payment solutions covering corporate travel and entertainment, corporate procurement and card usage needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as supporting data services, electronic management tools and core capabilities such as Visa Commercial Pay.
Among them, Visa Direct, as one of the core capital flow capabilities, can connect bank cards, bank accounts and e-wallets through a single access point, significantly improving the efficiency and certainty of cross-border payments. The service currently covers 195 countries and regions, supports more than 150 currencies, and can be widely adapted to multiple scenarios such as supplier payment, salary payment and e-commerce settlement.
Relying on the massive data accumulated by the global payment network, Visa is also continuing to release data and insight capabilities to help companies more accurately understand the market and consumer behavior. Currently, Visa has completed hundreds of real transactions initiated by AI in North America and Asia-Pacific. In 2026, it will further expand the scope of large-scale application of related technologies.
The most talked-about cooperation development during this exhibition was the official announcement of the signing of a strategic cooperation memorandum between Visa and Lakala. The two parties will deepen cooperation around cross-border B2B payment scenarios, rely on innovative business payment models, improve the efficiency of cross-border transactions and capital turnover capabilities of enterprises, and help Chinese enterprises integrate into the global supply chain system more efficiently and smoothly.
Currently, how to improve the efficiency of cross-border payments and optimize the capital flow experience within the compliance framework has become a core need that the foreign trade industry generally pays attention to.
Focusing on this pain point, Visa and Lakala have clarified a solution path centered on business payment capabilities, focusing on promoting the exploration of the Business Payment Solution Provider (BPSP) model, and promoting the evolution of cross-border B2B payment methods currently dominated by bank transfers to more digital and scalable solutions.
Under this model, corporate buyers can use commercial cards to complete corporate payments that do not originally support bank card acceptance, thereby obtaining more flexible account period management and fund arrangements; at the same time, suppliers can receive payments in their existing preferred method without changing existing business processes, achieving a more efficient and more certain fund arrival experience.
Wang Guoqiang, director and general manager of Lakala, said that this cooperation with Visa is an important practice in deeply connecting the global payment network capabilities with China’s local industrial scenes. Lakala will focus on typical foreign trade scenarios such as Guangzhou’s professional wholesale market, and work with more partners to open up full-process service links for cross-border transactions and payment settlements, helping more small and medium-sized foreign trade merchants better connect to the global market.
