Recently, Beijing's urban rail transit system has added support for contactless card transfer and ticket purchase functions for JCB cards issued overseas and American Express cards issued domestically and internationally, becoming the world's first urban rail transit system to cover payment services for the five major card organizations across the entire network. The integration of the "five major cards" in the Beijing subway payment system is not only a technological improvement, but also an optimization of the city's open image. Rail transit is the artery of urban operation and an important scene for foreign tourists to experience China. Especially the Beijing subway system has one of the world's leading operating mileage, and the trains running day and night on 29 lines have become an indispensable part of local life. Nowadays, foreign tourists can enter and exit the gates of 523 Beijing subway stations with just one foreign bank card. Every convenient experience of "taking a card to enter the station" is a vivid expression of "Beijing welcomes you". In recent years, with the continuous expansion of China's visa free "circle of friends" and the increasing number of overseas tourists coming to China, "payment difficulties" have become a real problem that cannot be ignored. Focusing on this, Beijing, as an international communication center, has taken active action. In March 2024, Beijing will take the lead at the provincial level nationwide, actively improving the acceptance environment for foreign card swiping, cash, mobile payments, digital RMB, etc., and enhancing the payment convenience for foreign visitors to Beijing. Over the past year, from the establishment of foreign currency exchange points and self-service exchange machines, to the coverage of foreign card POS machines by key merchants, and now to the realization of "five card" smooth subway travel... step by step deepening and layer by layer promotion, we have continuously polished the golden signboard of "Beijing Service". According to statistics, Beijing received 3.942 million inbound tourists in 2024, an increase of 1.9 times, and international tourism foreign exchange income was 4.91 billion US dollars, an increase of 1.5 times. At present, the external environment is complex and intricate, and China needs to face the world with a more proactive and open attitude. As the capital and a super large city with a huge economic scale, Beijing has a stronger sense of urgency in expanding its opening-up. Not only in terms of payment, but also in government services, market access, innovative ecology, etc., Beijing is actively responding to demand, taking proactive measures, and continuously providing convenience for foreigners to work, study, live, and travel. These "warmth in the details" are concrete manifestations of China's "more open, more confident, and more composed". Service is not visible outside, guests can return freely. The door of China's opening will continue to widen. I believe that visitors from all directions can feel the warm service in Beijing and see a trustworthy, lovely, and respectable China. (New Society)