Miniprograms enhance users' experience

There is an audacious economic phenomenon happening in China: using a smartphone to deal with just about every daily transaction.

People now have more reasons to move even more of their lives to mobile gadgets, as the social-to-payment app WeChat, the daily point of contact for Chinese, is leveraging miniprogram functionality to make life even easier.

Debuted a year ago, miniprograms are subapplications within the WeChat app. They allow mobile phone users to scan a QR code and access a vast number of services such as bike sharing and food ordering, without the need to download separate applications.