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How many people use WeChat on Chinese New Year?

The Red Packets Carnival Each year, Tencent publishes an official report about its WeChat user activity days after the Chinese New Year holiday. This year is no different: according to the report, there were 768 million users (that was over half of China’s population) exchanging digital red packets through WeChat.

What is a red packet on WeChat?

Tens of millions of users send Red Packets (formerly called “Lucky Money” or “Red Envelopes”) stuffed with digital cash to each other every day on WeChat. What is this amazing mobile payments product and how did it get so popular? Learn how WeChat transformed person-to-person payments into a form of communication.

How many WeChat red packets are there?

The growth of these figures is impressive: four years ago when WeChat red packet first started, there were 16 million packets given during the Chinese New Year. The number grew to 1 billion in 2015, then jumped up to 8.08 billion (800% increase) in 2016, 46 billion (570% increase) in 2017.

How many red envelopes were sent via WeChat?

Similarly, 26.21 million red envelopes containing 13.14 yuan each were sent via WeChat. The pronunciation of 1314 is similar to "forever" in Chinese. Giving digital red packets has become a popular holiday custom in China, thanks to the development of e-pay systems.

How did WeChat shape the red packet?

WeChat shapes the Red Packets, so did the Red Packet shape WeChat. Just like how Apple’s iPod helped shape Apple’s future, WeChat Pay helped promote WeChat into China’s biggest social messaging space and made them become a major ePayment provider.

How many red packets did WeChat give away during Chinese New Year?

This is the fourth year that WeChat developed this feature, and to highlight, one user from Chongqing received 3,429 red packets, and another one from Jiangxi gave away 2,723 red packets during the week of Chinese New Year.