More than half billion Chinese pay by mobile phones

China saw fast expansion in the number of mobile payment users last year, reaching 527 million at the end of 2017, according to an internet industry report. The number of mobile payment users increased by 57.83 million in 2017, 12.3-percent growth, the Internet Society of China said in the report. Total online payment users reached 531 million by the end of last year, up 11.9 percent from a year earlier, the report showed.