In mid-May, a report stemming from residents in Shenzhen, China explained that the digital yuan wasn’t seeing widespread participation, which the Chinese government has alluded to in many press releases. Now a handful of China’s state-owned banks have asked staff to recruit 200 to 300 digital yuan users. The banks are also giving away small presents in order to tempt the customers into leveraging the central bank digital currency (CBDC) wallet.
Chinese Banks Are Now Luring Customers Toward the Digital Yuan
Similar to how banks try to sell services to customers like loans, savings accounts, and investment vehicles, Chinese state-owned banks are telling employees to sell the benefits of the digital yuan. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, alongside five other top financial institutions in the country, are tasking their employees with pushing the CBDC wallet on hundreds of branch customers.
According to a rough translation of the announcement published by shenliancaijing.com
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