Popular Chinese social media app WeChat has recorded one billion monthly users for the first time, according to Pony¹ Ma, chairman of WeChat's parent company Tencent.

 

腾讯总裁马化腾表示，微信月活跃用户首次超过10亿人。

 

Pony Ma, who is a deputy to this year's National People's Congress (NPC), revealed on Monday that the recent Spring Festival holiday put WeChat usage over the one billion mark through February.

 

Tencent is reporting 768 million people used WeChat's digital "red envelopes" service through February.

 

Giving red envelopes with money is a Chinese tradition during the Spring Festival.

 

A WeChat-focused consulting agency, ChinaChannel, says the growth in WeChat user accounts is coming from overseas, such as south-east Asia, Europe and the US, reports the Financial Times.

 

WeChat's earnings² report through the 3rd quarter of 2017 shows user accounts had already reached 980 million.

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