Alipay has 43 million users

Alipay, a third-party online payment platform in China, said Wednesday that the users of Yu'ebao, China's first fund investment platform for online shoppers, hit 43.03 million by the end of 2013 on Tuesday, with transaction value having reached 185.3 billion yuan ($30.59 billion).

Alipay said Yu'ebao has helped its users, in more than 2,000 cities and counties nationwide, earn a total of 1.79 billion yuan since it hit the market on June 13. This has made it ranked second among all monetary funds in the nation.