The ticket gates in the Beijing metro supposedly support Applepay (it sometimes gets triggered on my phone as I pass through), but there were signs in the stations last year about some technical problem they were having. I don\'t know if it\'s resolved yet.

You would need to have a Chinese bank card linked to it in order to pay.

Real-name verification would just require a Chinese bank card and passport though, and so it should work whether you\'re resident or not.

Edit: I just noticed you don\'t have a Chinese phone number — maybe that could be a problem. Easy enough to get a Chinese SIM card though.

i use an app called 亿通行 for the subways here in Beijing however its linked to my alipay account. However I see , looking at the other methods of payment you can link ICBC card, wechat pay etc. (Not sure what the last one is, edit -> China Merchant bank it seems ) .

I am out of touch as what non residents of china can do with alipay, wechat pay etc Things move so fast around here