Industry distribution of mini-programs in China 2023, by mini-program platform

In China, internet giants Baidu, Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Alipay, and Douyin all have developed their own mini-program ecologies- an ecosystem of cloud-based embedded apps within their core mobile apps. In general, life services were the most common category of mini-programs, as of January 2023. Mobile shopping accounted for 11 percent of top 100 WeChat Mini Programs.在中国，互联网巨头百度、腾讯的微信、阿里巴巴的支付宝以及抖音均已构建起自家的轻应用生态系统——即在核心移动应用中嵌入的基于云的软件应用集合。截至2023年1月，生活服务类轻应用最为普遍。在微信轻应用排行榜的前100名中，移动购物类应用占据了11%的份额。