ContactlessNews | From the Great Wall to city buses, contactless is finding a home in China

Friday, April 7, 2006

by Andy Williams, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publishing

With the Olympics coming to China in two years, the country is in the middle of upgrading many of its programs and much of its infrastructure, including access control, transit systems, and more. This – coupled with ongoing demands that occur as the world’s most populous country rapidly modernizes – has the worldwide smart card industry scrambling to grab a piece of this potentially huge market opportunity.

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