支付宝进驻香港，开启首个非人民币支付系统

Alibaba’s mobile payment platform Alipay has announced the launch of an app in Hong Kong that will handle mobile payments in HK dollars.

阿里巴巴的移动支付平台支付宝宣布在香港推出一款可以用港元进行移动支付的应用软件。

“Introducing local currency mobile payments to Hong Kong is an important step forward in Ant Financial’s mission to bring our services to more users in more markets,” the media quoted Douglas Feagin, president of global business as saying.

“蚂蚁金服的宗旨就是为更多市场上的更多用户提供服务，而在香港引入本地货币移动支付服务就是其实现目标的重要一步，”媒体援引其全球业务总裁道格拉斯·费金的话报道。

While the standard Alipay app is supported in 120,000 retail locations across 70 overseas markets, until now all transactions had been executed in yuan.

虽然标准版的支付宝应用软件可以在70多个海外市场的120,000个零售点使用，然而直到现在所有的交易都是以人民币进行支付的。

The effort marks big step towards goal of widening currency options.

这一成果标志着支付宝在拓宽货币选择这一目标上又迈进了一大步。