This topic guides you through releasing mini programs to Alipay China. In a workspace, the owner, masters, and developers have permission to proceed with the release process.

Overview

This section describes an overview of the release process for Alipay China. For how the process works, see the following diagram:

1. To release a mini program to Alipay China, first choose Alipay China when creating a mini program.
2. When a mini program is ready, you can then submit the release request to Alipay+ and Alipay China for review.
3. If Alipay+ and Alipay China approve your request, you can choose the release type during the release preparation.
4. After that, you can proceed with grayscale release or full release to complete the release process. Currently, you can only release the mini program to the production environment.

Procedures

To release a mini program to Alipay China, you can see the corresponding steps as below:

Step 1: New version creation

1. To release the mini program to Alipay China, click Release to trigger the process.
2. Then, click Apply to release to proceed to the next step. You can also check and modify the configurations at this step by clicking View Configuration.
3. Confirm your basic information. The basic information is the business registration you submit during the merchant onboarding process. You can update the information according to your newest business registration. Then click Apply to submit the release request to Alipay+ and Alipay China for review.

Note: If you modify the basic information, Alipay + and Alipay China will review the information during the release review process.

Step 2: Under review

After the approval of Alipay+ and Alipay China, you can proceed to the release preparation.

Step 3: Release preparation

You can choose the release type based on your needs:

• Grayscale Release: To gradually increase the release ratio from 1% to 100% to fully release the mini program.
• Final Release: To fully release the mini program directly.

Grayscale release

1. Click Confirm to trigger the grayscale release. The grayscale ratio range is from 1%-100%. You can choose to conduct the grayscale by selecting any of the ratios within the range. For example, if you want to release the mini program at 1% grayscale, select 1% and click Submit to trigger the process. You can find problems and make adjustments at the initial grayscale.
2. If everything goes well, you can gradually increase the ratio to 100% to fully release the mini program. Then the whole release process comes to the end.

Final release

1. If the mini program is ready to run online at the release preparation step, you can click Final Release to fully release the mini program directly. And the whole release process comes to the end at this step.

Now you have completed releasing a mini program to Alipay China.

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