Beginning in 2026, the digital yuan app ushered in a series of major updates. After completing the 2.0 upgrade and implementing the wallet balance interest accrual function, the app's lifestyle service section recently quietly launched the “carbon inclusion” applet service, and was the first to launch in the Shanghai region. After experiencing it, the Securities Times reporter discovered that after starting this function, the digital yuan app will automatically record the carbon emission reduction generated by users through various types of green and low-carbon behavior and quantify it as “carbon credits.” Like a “digital passbook” for green behavior, these points can be exchanged for digital yuan according to certain rules, which directly translates green behavior into economic benefits. Some analysts told the Securities Times reporter that the above measures have opened up innovative application scenarios with great social value and lifestyle for the digital yuan, making it more deeply integrated into people's daily lives, thus gaining more rapid popularization and promotion. “Transforming abstract environmental contributions into visible and tangible economic incentives has greatly lowered the threshold for the public to practice a green lifestyle. The carbon-inclusive incentive model helps to form a low-carbon social culture where 'everyone participates and everyone benefits'.” The analyst said.

Beginning in 2026, the digital yuan app ushered in a series of major updates. After completing the 2.0 upgrade and implementing the wallet balance interest accrual function, the app's lifestyle service section recently quietly launched the “carbon inclusion” applet service, and was the first to launch in the Shanghai region. After experiencing it, the Securities Times reporter discovered that after starting this function, the digital yuan app will automatically record the carbon emission reduction generated by users through various types of green and low-carbon behavior and quantify it as “carbon credits.” Like a “digital passbook” for green behavior, these points can be exchanged for digital yuan according to certain rules, which directly translates green behavior into economic benefits. Some analysts told the Securities Times reporter that the above measures have opened up innovative application scenarios with great social value and lifestyle for the digital yuan, making it more deeply integrated into people's daily lives, thus gaining more rapid popularization and promotion. “Transforming abstract environmental contributions into visible and tangible economic incentives has greatly lowered the threshold for the public to practice a green lifestyle. The carbon-inclusive incentive model helps to form a low-carbon social culture where 'everyone participates and everyone benefits'.” The analyst said.