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The microchip is about the size of a grain of rice and injected underneath the dog’s skin right between the shoulder blades, Feng Zengjun, deputy director of Shenzhen’s Urban Administration and Law Enforcement Bureau, told the Xinhua News Agency. “The chip can migrate though the pet’s body and poses no harm to the dogs.”

“The basic information of each dog can be scanned, which can help lost dogs be easily identified and returned to their owners,” Feng added.

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The microchips can also make pet owners responsible for their dog’s actions if it causes an incident, Xinhua reported on last Thursday.

A veterinarian told the Guangzhou traffic radio that as long as pet owners choose the right pet hospitals, dogs will be safe and will not feel any pain when they are injected with a chip.

Most of Chinese netizens supported this action pointing out that the microchips can be used to identify “irresponsible dog owners who abandon their pets, which will help reduce the amount of stray dogs,” one of them wrote.

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Zhang Yiwu, a professor at Peking University, also hailed the plan and said on his Sina Weibo account that “this chip should be promoted as soon as possible and be applied nationwide.” 

Shenzhen has also launched other measures to strengthen pet management. Owners of unlicensed dogs will be severely punished beginning July 1, according to Xinhua’s report.

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The report noted that the city’s urban management bureau plans to eliminate stray dogs within three years by capturing, sterilizing and adopting them. It did not mention if the dogs will be culled. 

Different cities in China have raised pet dog regulations over concerns about the mess they make and reported accidents. Police in Ji’nan, East China’s Shandong Province introduced a penalty point system for dog owners in 2017. 

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If dog owners lose 12 points in two years, they will need to attend classes to learn regulations on dog management organized by police. Their dogs will be returned to the owners if they pass the test.

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In a press release, Bluecode, ePassi, momo pocket, Pagaqui, Pivo, Vipps and Alipay said they will adopt a unified QR code, which will enable payment interoperability for travelers in Europe and from China. 

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The idea will be that users of the six European digital wallets will be able to make QR code payments with their apps at local merchants in ten European countries where the apps are accepted. 

Merchants that already support the six digital wallets will be able to accept payments made by customers in other countries. Alipay’s Chinese customers can make payments to merchants that accept the wallets, the companies said in the press release.

This collaboration is expected to bring together over 5 million users in Europe and over 190,000 merchants.

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The partnering firms have agreed to apply a compatible QR code format provided by Alipay. ePassi and Bluecode will offer technical services to the participating wallets to simplify the integration process among them.

Alipay parent Ant Financial signed a multi-country African agreement with Nigeria-based CoralPay, the latest move towards worldwide acceptance for the popular Chinese payment platform.

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The deal is the first publicly announced for Alipay acceptance on the continent outside of South Africa and was revealed by the pair in Nigeria newspaper ThisDay.

CoralPay said it sealed partnerships with a number of banks and point of sale terminal providers to widen support for Alipay users outside of its existing merchant network. The service will be initially available in Nigeria before being expanded to other, unspecified, markets.

Alipay is expanding in Japan ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games that Tokyo will host next summer. Mobile payment has increasingly become the payment method of choice among Chinese consumers due to widespread ownership of smartphones and convenience of making secure payments through the scanning of QR bar codes, a feature available through both Alipay and Tencent Holdings’ WeChat Pay.

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More than half of the overseas businesses surveyed saw an increase in both foot traffic in their stores and the size of transactions made by Chinese travelers after they adopted Alipay, a report released jointly by US research firm Nielsen and Alipay said in January.

Actually, on March 15, 2018, Alipay entered the markets in Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, and Burma to serve Chinese tourists. With their previous launches in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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The father is in need of a bone marrow transplant, and the hospital will only do it if the donor is a certain weight (45 kilograms), according to hen.wenming.cn, and the heavier the weight, the better.

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Lu Zikuan, the oldest son in the family, from Huixian, Central China’s Henan province, is now gaining weight as quickly as possible to meet the requirement.

He has ballooned to 44 kg from 30 kg since March when the bone marrow from the boy successfully matched that of his father.

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“Even if it hurts, I’ll still eat,” Lu said. “Our family couldn’t bear the loss of my dad.”

His aim is to reach 50 kg, as agreed with his father. And this was his wish on this year’s International Children’s Day on June 1.