2018 Baidu Smart Mini Program Open Course Starts! Hundreds of Billions of Traffic Benefit Developers

On December 13, 2018, Baidu Smart Mini Program Open Course with the theme of "Small, with Great Wisdom" was first held in Beijing. The Baidu Mini Program team, led by Dr. Shen Dou, Vice President of Baidu and Dean of Smart Mini Program Academy, fully interpreted the "Co-building Plan" and released the "Evangelist Plan", a one-on-one expert assistance program for developers. During the course, many senior lecturers shared with more than 300 developers and entrepreneurs from all over the country a lot of practical information about Smart Mini Programs, from technology to operation, from access to experience.

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Baidu Mini Programs Ecosystem Develops Rapidly with Open Source

The mini program industry is currently on the eve of an explosion, and in the industry ecosystem, the platform's technical capabilities, technical concepts and the imagination of developers jointly determine the boundaries of mini program connection services. Baidu Smart Mini Program has been released for more than 100 days, and has more than 150 million monthly active users. Dr. Shen Dou, Vice President of Baidu, said in his opening speech that Baidu Smart Mini Program is the industry's first "open" ecological platform built on the advantages of "open source" technology. While providing developers and enterprises with industry-leading co-construction plans and convenient tools to achieve "simple connection", it also helps them grow rapidly in a steadily developing ecological environment and create greater industry value.

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Comprehensive interpretation of the co-building plan, individual assistance from evangelists and experts

At this open class, Ping Xiaoli, general manager of Baidu App, explained in detail the co-building plan aimed at encouraging partners to build an ecosystem together: a billion innovation fund will be invested in developers and small and medium-sized enterprises with innovative potential, and more traffic and funds will be used to promote developers; in order to further encourage creative developers, innovative developers will be rewarded with one million yuan in the 2019 developer competition. In addition to the large-scale capital investment, the co-building plan provides developers with one-to-one authoritative professional services through online courses and offline open classes; it also launched the "Evangelist Plan", inviting many industry leaders and experts and scholars including Tang Xiaohui, vice president of TusTech Service Group, Lu Wenlong, co-founder of Kukeduo, and Hou Xianhui, founder and CEO of "Three Lessons", to help developers better understand and participate in the development and construction of the smart mini-program ecosystem.

Experience, intelligence, openness, and traffic: Baidu Mini Programs have four major features that help partners build a stable future

The platform experience is further optimized, providing developers with a smoother and more convenient operation experience while further unleashing the creativity of developers. With intelligent technology as the escort throughout the process, Baidu has infiltrated the world's leading underlying intelligent technology into the application scenario level, fully meeting the functional needs of developers and making them even more powerful. It is truly open and convenient to access, with one-minute data migration and easy access to the three major application frameworks; Baidu's intelligent applets' technical grading solutions, cross-platform solutions and rich compatible development tools create a truly open ecosystem for developers. Baidu's advantage of hundreds of billions of traffic provides fertile soil for the rapid development of partners and creates a stable environment for developers to continuously realize.

As Baidu Smart Mini Program Open Class is further launched across the country, we believe that more creative and visionary developers will join in and work with Baidu to see more possibilities in this industry and build a better future together!