Nine departments: Encourage financial institutions to cooperate with key merchants to plan exclusive activities for the Spring Festival, offering consumption red envelopes, discounts, and other benefits

The Ministry of Commerce and nine other departments issued the "2026 'Happy Shopping Spring Festival' Special Event Plan." It proposes to increase financial support. Financial institutions are encouraged to collaborate with key merchants to plan exclusive Spring Festival activities, offering consumer red envelopes, discounts, and other benefits to expand the coverage of the events. In conjunction with local consumption promotion activities, measures such as payment discounts and points redemption for cash are introduced, encouraging the use of digital RMB smart contract consumer red envelopes. Sufficiently meet the demand for small cash and strengthen the technical support for mobile red envelopes