Lingnan Pass (Chinese: 岭南通; pinyin: Lǐng nán tōng) is a contactless rechargeable stored value smartcard system in Guangdong Province.
[1] Lingnan Pass Card is issued under a dual-brand strategy, of which "Lingnan Pass" is the main brand and other brand with "Tong (Chinese: 通)" is a sub-brand for local city.
The application areas of Lingnantong include public transportation such as buses, subways, public bicycles, roadside meters, parking lots and highways, and have been expanded to chain convenience stores, supermarkets, vending machines, vegetable markets and fast food restaurants, etc.
[2] Lingnan Pass is developed based on Yang Cheng Tong, so for compatibility, most of Lingnan Pass's trading systems still retain the ability to read and write the account files of Yang Cheng Tong cards,[3] and only close the old account files on the card after recharging offline, and transfer the data to the new Lingnan Pass account file, so that it can be used on all Lingnan Pass trading systems (such as EFTPOS on public bus in Shenzhen and Dongguan).
Lingnan Tong has also issued co-issued cards with Octopus, Macau Pass, and EZ-Link, but the internal account documents and amounts are not interoperable.