China's leading Internet value-added service provider, a large-scale integrated Internet service provider with WeChat/QQ/Tencent Games/Tencent.com and other social/interactive entertainment/website/tool software and other products
Founded in November 1998, Tencent is currently one of the leading Internet value-added service providers in China. Since its establishment, Tencent has been adhering to the business philosophy of "everything is based on user value", providing stable and high-quality services for hundreds of millions of users, and has always been in a state of steady development. On June 16, 2004, Tencent Holdings Limited was publicly listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (stock code: 700).
Improving the quality of human life through Internet services is Tencent's mission. At present, Tencent has taken "connecting everything" as its strategic goal, providing two core services: social platform and digital content. Through China's leading online platforms such as instant messaging tool QQ, mobile social networking and communication services WeChat and WeChat, web portal Tencent (QQ.com), Tencent Games, and social networking platform QQ Zone, it meets the needs of Internet users in terms of communication, information, entertainment and finance. As of March 31, 2017, QQ had 861 million monthly active accounts, with a peak of 266 million simultaneous online accounts, and WeChat and WeChat combined 938 million monthly active accounts. Tencent's development has profoundly influenced and changed the communication methods and living habits of hundreds of millions of netizens, and has created a broader application prospect for China's Internet industry.
Facing the future, adhering to independent innovation and establishing a national brand is Tencent's long-term development plan. At present, more than 50% of Tencent's employees are R&D personnel, has a complete independent R&D system, and has a considerable number of patents in the six major directions of storage technology, data mining, multimedia, Chinese processing, distributed network and wireless technology, ranking among the top in the total number of patent applications and authorizations among global Internet companies.
Becoming the most respected Internet company is Tencent's long-term goal. Tencent has been actively participating in public welfare undertakings, striving to undertake corporate social responsibility, and promoting Internet civilization. In 2006, Tencent established the Tencent Charity Foundation, the first charitable charity foundation on the Internet in China, and established the Tencent Charity Network (gongyi.qq.com). Adhering to the tenet of "Committed to Public Welfare and Charity, Caring for the Growth of Youth, Advocating Corporate Citizenship, and Promoting Social Harmony and Progress", Tencent embraces public welfare in every product and business, is open and interconnected, and advocates all enterprises to act together to create a new Internet public welfare ecology in which "everyone can do public welfare and everyone participates" through the advantages of technology and communication in the Internet field.
