BEIJING — China’s mobile payment posted robust growth last year and is gradually replacing generally PC-based online payment, a report showed on April 26.

Domestic commercial banks handled over 37.5 billion mobile payment transactions last year, up 46.06 percent year-on-year, according to the report from the Payment & Clearing Association of China.

Non-banking payment institutions handled over 239 billion mobile payment transactions, surging more than 146 percent year-on-year.

Online payment services showed lackluster performance last year. Transactions of online payment services for commercial banks only grew 5.2 percent year-on-year. Non-banking payment institutions saw online payment transactions fall by over 27 percent.

The popularity of payment via scanning products or merchant bar codes with mobile phones has helped promote mobile payments.