On December 8, Alipay and Huawei Terminal announced their cooperation to launch the development of Alipay's Hongmeng native applications based on HarmonyOSNEXT, becoming another leading platform partner to launch the development of Hongmeng native applications, further improving the ecological layout of Hongmeng.
As an open platform for digital payment and open platform for digital interconnection, Alipay has served 80 million merchants and 1 billion consumers. Through the Alipay App, there are nearly 4 million small programs for merchants and more than 1,000 life services such as scanning QR codes to order and pay bills.
"The cooperation between the two parties will further meet the needs of users to enjoy smart life services on different terminals and in different scenarios. At the same time, Huawei's digital layout in the field of Alipay mini programs will also help improve the operating efficiency of merchants in the two ecosystems." Ni Xingjun, President of Alipay Business Group, said at the signing site.
Jing Xiandong, chairman and CEO of Ant Group, said, "Both parties will expand cooperation in digital services and other fields with a more open mind, jointly build a new ecosystem, and serve domestic users and the market well."
Yu Chengdong, Managing Director of Huawei, CEO of Terminal BG, and Chairman of Smart Car Solutions BU, said: "Alipay's development of Harmony native applications reflects the new development of Harmony native applications. As a full-scenario multi-terminal operating system, HarmonyOS builds a unified ecosystem for the Internet of Everything. We call on more capable and ideal partners to build, co-create, and share the new Harmony ecosystem to win new opportunities in the smart world."