Tencent Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.

Headquartered in Shenzhen, China, and founded in 1998, Tencent is an internet-based technology and cultural enterprise.

Tencent’s mission is to “improve the quality of life through internet value-added services”.

Guided by its “user oriented” business philosophy, Tencent achieves its mission via the delivery of integrated internet solutions to over 1 billion netizens.

An industry leader and global pioneer of innovative, digital-based technology solutions, Tencent aims to provide platforms and services that connect everything”.

Through the company’s two principal business operations, ‘social platforms’ and ‘digital content’, Tencent develops and delivers game-changing products, such as social communication platforms ‘Weixin/WeChat’ and ‘QQ’, that connect people with services, foster closer relationships and create new business opportunities.

From comics, videos, games and animation to music, literature, films and news, Tencent offers an incredible array of first-class digital content and multi-media services, providing entertainment and cultural enrichment to over 1 billion users across the globe.

Tencent also provides cutting-edge financial technology and seamless mobile payment solutions that are helping support the development of smart cities, smart transport and smart retail.

Through innovative excellence and forging strategic partnerships with a range of industries, Tencent strives to be the driving force behind China’s digitalization.

Tencent partners with a range of enterprises to lead digital transformation across important pillars of the economy, including manufacturing, healthcare, retail and education.

The company is passionate about improving people’s quality of life through digital innovation.

As the digital economy gathers pace, in part driven by China’s "Internet Plus" development strategy, Tencent is co-creating an ecosystem through strategic collaboration with our partners and the development of open platforms.

These partnerships foster the development of cutting-edge technologies, including cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI).

Individuals, businesses and entire industries across all sectors of our economy are already realizing the benefits of Tencent’s Open Ecosystem, which is helping millions of entrepreneurs and their employees establish new businesses and create new jobs.

The valuation of these ventures significantly exceeds 100 billion yuan (over US$14.5 billion).

Another of Tencent’s objectives is to use technology to accelerate the development of the public good, part of its goal to become the world’s “most respected internet enterprise”.

In 2007, Tencent launched the Tencent Foundation, the first charitable foundation by an internet enterprise in China. The foundation is devoted to creating a system that empowers citizens to engage in charitable activities.

Tencent Foundation launched in 2015 the first online charity event in China, “99 Charity Day”. This campaign connects non-profit organizations, netizens, and enterprises, to create a thriving philanthropic ecosystem.

We are proud to deploy our world-class technological capabilities and services to help promote the long-term growth and development of society.

Wexin/WeChat

Launched in 2011, Weixin/WeChat has been enhancing the lives of hundreds of millions users with its innovative features. The platform integrates instant messaging and social entertainment, bringing about a mobile digital lifestyle on an easy to use app. Users get to engage in real-time communications via free text and multimedia messages, make video calls or share photos on their “Moments”. Other lifestyle recreational features include “Games”, “Sticker Gallery”, and convenient friend-adding services such as “Shake” and “People Nearby”. Continuously evolving around users' needs, Weixin/WeChat also offers enterprises “Official Accounts” to create original consumer experiences through its open platform and extended services such as Weixin/WeChat Pay for a truly mobile digital lifestyle. Weixin/WeChat reached more than 938 million monthly active user accounts as of the first quarter of 2017.Weixin/WeChat has evolved into a connector and open platform across industries, connecting users with one another, with smart devices and with business services.

An integrated feature in Weixin/WeChat, Weixin/WeChat Pay is a payment solution for its users, enabling quick payment transactions on their mobile phones. Weixin/WeChat Pay functions on the basis of swift payment through the use of connected bank cards, providing safe and efficient payment services for users. Weixin/WeChat Pay was officially launched in China on 5 August 2013, concurrent to the introduction of Weixin/WeChat version 5.0, and became available to merchants in China on 4 March 2014.