HANGZHOU, March 10 (Xinhua) -- China's leading digital payment platform Alipay on Tuesday unveiled a three-year plan to support the digital transformation of 40 million service providers by working with 5,000 independent software vendors.
Simon Hu, CEO of Alibaba's financial affiliate Ant Financial, made the remarks at the first Alipay Partner Conference held on the same day, noting that Alipay is turning itself into a digital lifestyle platform.
"We want to build the new infrastructure of a digitalized service industry by upgrading Alipay into a digital lifestyle platform," Hu said.
Upgrades have been made on Alipay to further improve daily life services, with multiple sections for handy services including doorstep delivery and others related to greengrocers, supermarkets and pharmacies newly added to the platform's homepage.
Alipay also announced that it has rolled out a supportive plan to help merchants undertake digital upgrades, as well as an incentive program that encourages developers of mini-programs.
Launched in 2004, Alipay serves 900 million domestic users and provides e-government services in more than 400 cities nationwide.
