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Tencent, full name Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co. LTD , November 1998 Pony Ma , Zhang Zhidong , Xu Chenye , Chen Yidan , Zeng Liqing It was co-founded by five founders, with a revenue of 554.552 billion yuan in 2022. [231]
Tencent's diversified services include: social and communication services QQ and wechat / WeChat , social networking platforms qzone , Tencent Games subordinate QQ game Platform, portal website Tencent , Tencent news client And Internet video services Tencent Video Let's wait.
Tencent in 2004 Hong Kong Stock Exchange Listed on the main board (stock code 00700), Chairman of the board and Chief executive officer is Pony Ma . According to the financial report, as of December 31, 2021, Tencent Group had 112,771 employees (2020:85,858). [181]
Compiled by World Brand Lab in December 2018 2018 Top 500 World Brands Here we go. Number 39. [1] In July 2019, the 2019" wealth The World's top 500: Ranked 237. [2] In August 2019, it was selected as one of the 50 Best Boards of Directors in China in 2019. [3] On September 1, 2019, the list of China's Top 500 service enterprises 2019 was released in Jinan, and Tencent Holdings Co., Ltd. ranked 32nd. [4] In October 2019, it ranked 14th on the 2019 Forbes Global Digital Economy 100 list. [5] On October 23, 2019, the 2019 Fortune Future 50 list was released, and Tencent Holdings Limited ranked 12th. [6] Ranked 14th on the "Belt and Road" Top 100 Chinese enterprises list. [7] In December 2019, Tencent was selected as a model 100 brand in the 2019 China Brand Power Ceremony. [8] On December 18, 2019, People's Daily released the China Brand Development Index 100 list, and Tencent ranked fourth. [9] In September 2021, it was selected into the list of "Top 500 Private Enterprises in China in 2021", ranking 6th. [142]
On May 12, 2022, the China Consumers Association released the "May Day" consumer rights protection public opinion analysis report, and Tencent and other enterprises were named. [189] On May 9, 2023, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Tencent The research and development of the world's first "high-fidelity digital giant panda" will be carried out. [236]
Foreign name
Tencent
Establishment time
November 11, 1998 [10]
Legal representative
Pony Ma
Headquarters location
China Shenzhen
Business scope
Internet
Type of company
Limited liability company [10]
Company slogan
Everything is based on user value
Annual turnover
609.15 billion yuan [244] [265] (2023)
Number of employees
106,200 people [237] (2023)
Corporate vision
The most respected Internet company
Company mission
Improve the quality of human life through Internet services
Chairman of the Board
Pony Ma
General determination
Martin Lau
Place of registration
Shenzhen Nanshan District Yuehai Street Maling Community technology Road Tencent building 35th floor [146]
Registration number
440301103448669 [10]
Registered capital
65 million RMB [10]
Registration authority
Shenzhen market supervision Administration Nanshan Bureau [10]

Headquarters location

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Tencent Binhai Building, 33 Haitian Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen [184]
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Shijiazhuang (in Hebei Province) Is the birthplace of Tencent, Tencent started is "OICQ", Tencent's first generation of business is in Shijiazhuang, before QQ, Tencent is to do network paging (pager), at that time with Hebei Telecom 126127 BB machine development of network paging system. [270] On November 11, 1998, Pony Ma With classmates Zhang Zhidong Officially incorporated in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province" Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co. LTD ", after Xu Chenye , Chen Yidan , Zeng Liqing Join in succession. At that time, the company's business was to expand the wireless network paging system, establish an online paging system for paging stations, and this software development project for enterprises or units was all small and medium-sized Network service The best choice for the company. [11]
In November 1999, Tencent became a British subsidiary Virgin Islands Incorporated and relocated to the British Cayman Islands in February 2004. [202]
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On March 5, 2010, 19:52 minutes and 58 seconds, the highest number of simultaneous online users of Tencent QQ exceeded 100 million, which is the first time since humanity entered the Internet era that the number of simultaneous online users of a single application in the world exceeded 100 million.
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On April 12, 2010, Tencent and DST The joint announcement is that Tencent will invest approximately $300 million in DST, and the two companies will establish a long-term strategic partnership in which Tencent will hold an economic interest of approximately 10.26% in DST.
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June 17, 2010, Tencent and the United States Cisco The company signed a memorandum of cooperation, and the two sides will establish a long-term strategic partnership.
On the afternoon of September 5, 2010, he was then General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State and chairman of the Central Military Commission Hu Jintao A line came to Tencent company to visit.
On January 21, 2011, Tencent launched for smart phones Instant messaging Free apps for the service: wechat .
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On May 9, 2011, Tencent invested 450 million yuan as a shareholder Huayi Brothers Media Corporation After the completion of the investment, Tencent held 4.6% of Huayi Brothers, becoming the largest institutional investor of Huayi Brothers.
On May 17, 2011, Tencent invested $84.4 million elong It accounted for 16% of elong's total shares and became the second largest shareholder of elong Net.
On June 21, 2011, Kelan Diamond announced that it had received tens of millions of dollars of investment from Tencent.
On July 14, 2011, Tencent's Party Committee held its founding meeting.
In May 2012, Tencent completed the e-commerce website Yi Xun Holding, Easy to merge into Tencent e-commerce business.
On May 18, 2012, Tencent announced the adjustment of the company's organizational structure, upgrading from the original business system system to the business group system. It is divided into Enterprise Development Business Group (CDG), Interactive Entertainment Business Group (IEG), Mobile Internet Business Group (MIG), Internet Media Business Group (OMG), Social Networking Business Group (SNG), and Technology Engineering Business Group (TEG) Tencent e-commerce holding company (ECC) focuses on e-commerce business.
On July 3, 2012, Activision Blizzard Announced the establishment of a strategic partnership with Tencent, and will" Call of Duty Online "To Chinese gamers.
In August 2012, Tencent, Alibaba Group, Ping An of China Will jointly test the water of Internet finance, joint venture set up in Shanghai Lujiazui The financial exchange.
On December 7, 2012, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President of the State (then Vice President) [12] Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xi Jinping Came to visit Tencent company.
In January 2013, wechat and WeChat The total number of registered users exceeded 300 million.
On June 25, 2013, Kingsoft Announced that it and Tencent respectively spent $5.22 million and $46.98 million to jointly increase their holdings Kingsoft network After the completion of the transaction, Tencent's shareholding increased from 10% to 17.99%. [13]
On the same day, Tencent's share price rose to 418.2 Hong Kong dollars, with a market value of about 777.2 billion Hong Kong dollars, or about 100.2 billion US dollars, becoming China's first Internet company with a market value of more than 100 billion US dollars.
On January 2, 2014, Didi Dache Announced $100 million in financing, led by CITIC Industrial Fund and $30 million from Tencent.
On January 15, 2014, South China City Jointly announced with Tencent that Tencent will subscribe for a total of 680.3 million new shares of South China City at an aggregate price of approximately HK $1.5 billion, representing approximately 9.9% of the enlarged issued share capital of South China City through the issue and allotment of subscription Shares.
On February 19, 2014, Tencent announced its investment Dianping , 20% of the shares. [14]
On March 4, 2014, Tencent announced a partnership with Wong Lo Kat Become a strategic partner.
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On March 10, 2014, it was acquired by Tencent for $214 million Jingdong More than 350 million common shares, accounting for 15% of Jingdong's common shares outstanding before the listing. At the same time, JD Tencent has also signed an overall strategic cooperation agreement with e-commerce, which will be owned by Tencent Paipai C2C , QQ online shopping The registered capital, assets and business of other affiliated companies are transferred to Jingdong, and Jingdong also obtains Easun Minority interest and the right to purchase the remaining equity interest in Yixun
On March 22, 2014, Tencent received $180 million from the company E-house China Leju, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Leju, purchased 15% of Leju shares on a fully diluted basis.
On March 26, 2014, Tencent paid $500 million for a 28% stake in South Korean gaming company CJ Games. [15]
At 21:11 PM on April 11, 2014, the highest number of Tencent QQ online accounts exceeded 200 million, achieving an increase of 100 million in four years. [16]
On April 29, 2014, Four dimensional graph new Signed a share transfer agreement with Shenzhen Tencent Industrial Investment Fund Co., Ltd. to transfer 78 million unlimited tradable shares held by Siwei Tuxin, accounting for 11.28% of the company's total share capital. [17]
On May 7, 2014, Tencent announced its establishment Wechat business group (WXG), revocation of the Tencent E-commerce Holding Company established in 2012, among which O2O Business and wechat business group, physical e-commerce business merged into Jingdong. [18]
On June 12, 2014, Tencent and JDB Group Reach comprehensive strategic cooperation.
On June 27, 2014, 58 city Jointly announced with Tencent, Tencent invested $736 million to acquire a fully diluted 19.9% stake in 58.com. [19]
On July 31, 2014, New Oriental Announced joint establishment with Tencent Beijing micro learning tomorrow network technology Co., LTD , registered capital of 30 million yuan.
On August 29, 2014, Wanda Group , Tencent, Baidu Announced the establishment of jointly funded Wanda e-commerce company, Wanda Group holds 70% of the equity, Baidu, Tencent, 15% of the equity.
Healthcare website, September 2, 2014 Dingxiang Garden Announced $70 million strategic investment from Tencent. After the investment is completed, Dingxiang Park will carry out multi-platform cooperation with Tencent, including the docking of wechat and mobile QQ. [20]
September 14, 2014, by PICC Shenzhen PICC Tencent Maisheng Energy Investment Fund Enterprise (Limited Partnership), jointly initiated by Tencent and Maisheng, officially signed the "Capital Increase Agreement on Sinopec Sales Co., LTD." with a strategic investment of 10 billion yuan to buy shares in the sales company, accounting for 2.8% of the shares of the sales company after the completion of the capital increase.
On October 13, 2014, the registration network announced the financing led by Tencent, and the total financing amount of this round exceeded 100 million US dollars.
On October 16, 2014, Huacai Holdings announced that it had entered into a subscription agreement with the subscriber, HongzeLake Investment Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tencent, conditionally agreeing to place 594,034,513 shares of the Company, accounting for 7.53% of the total share capital of the Company.
On November 18, 2014, Huayi Brothers Announced the strategic cooperation with Tencent and Alibaba, Ma Yun and Ali Venture Capital holding a total of 8.08% of the shares of Huayi Brothers, of which Ma Yun personal shareholding ratio of 3.61%, Tencent holds 8.08% of the shares of Huayi Brothers.
On December 15, 2014, Tencent was selected for the first time World Brand Lab Compiled in 2014 (11th) Top 500 global brands The list.
On January 9, 2015, Bitauto Holdings Limited Jd.com and Tencent announced a strategic partnership in which JD.com and Tencent will cooperate Bitauto To invest a total of $1.3 billion in cash and resources, of which Tencent will purchase $150 million of newly issued common shares of Bitauto. [21]
April 30, 2015, mobile game developer Glu Mobile Inc. announced that Tencent will buy a 14.6% stake in the company for $126 million.
On May 7, 2015, TCL Corporation Announced that its subsidiary Huannet technology in the way of capital expansion to obtain Tencent 50 million yuan investment, Tencent obtained Huannet technology after the capital increase 7.143% equity. [22]
On May 14, 2015, Pocket Gems, an American mobile game developer, announced that it had received a $60 million investment from Tencent, and Tencent acquired about 20% of Pocket Gems shares. [23]
In June 2015, the largest cloud computing data center base in South China ------ China Tencent Cloud Computing Data center Shenzhen-shantou Special Cooperation Zone Officially enabled.
On August 3, 2015, the domestic used car e-commerce platform manbike Announced that it has completed the $85 million C round of financing led by Tencent Strategy, and the last round of investors, including Lei Jun, also followed. [24]
Vice President of Tencent on September 11, 2015 Sun Zhonghuai Announced the formation of Penguin Pictures. At the same time, Sun Zhonghuai also unveiled Penguin Pictures' three core businesses: online drama, film investment and artist management.
On September 17, 2015, Tencent announced the establishment of a wholly-owned subsidiary Tencent Pictures . COO of Tencent Group Ren Yuxin Chairman of Tencent Pictures and Vice President of Tencent Group Cheng Wu As CEO. [25]
On December 15, 2015, Tencent and Zhejiang Radio and Television Group The signing ceremony of strategic cooperation was held in Hangzhou, and the two sides carried out in-depth cooperation in three aspects: platform, advertising and content resources. [26]
On February 3, 2016, Tencent and global sports content production company ESPN 召开战略合作签约发布会,宣布腾讯成为ESPN在中国大陆地区的独家内容合作伙伴,腾讯将在中国地区以中文呈现ESPN的独家资讯,在赛事转播、专题集锦、周边内容等多个方面得到ESPN的独家资源支持。 [27]
In August 2016, Tencent Holdings Limited was ranked 140th in the "2016 Top 500 Chinese Enterprises ". [28]
On September 5, 2016, Tencent's share price continued to rise after the opening, Tencent's share price reached HK $209.40, and its market value has reached HK $1.982 trillion, leading the market Alibaba Group , first pass China Mobile It became Asia's most valuable company. [29]
In early 2017, Eli Lilly China, Tencent and Dingxiang Garden Announced the joint development and launch of the Diabetes care and support program, the Lilly Diabetes Care Program. The three companies also announced that this is a "strategic cooperation unique to the industry in the field of diabetes." [30]
Shares of Chinese Internet company Tencent have hit another record high, with its market value topping $279 billion on Wednesday, April 5, 2017, surpassing Wells Fargo Bank It became the 10th largest company in the world by market capitalization. Although Tencent's share price fell slightly yesterday, it remains the world's tenth largest by market capitalisation. [31]
The palm Fun technology, which resumed trading on June 21, 2017, opened the daily limit on the opening 20 minutes, and the closing increase fell to 5.54%. According to the announcement, Yao Wenbin, the actual controller of Palm Fun Technology, intends to transfer 55.417,500 shares of Palm Fun Technology to Nyingchi Tencent Technology Co., LTD., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tencent Industrial Investment Fund, through bulk trading, so that Tencent will become a 2% shareholder of Palm Fun Technology. [32]
On August 7, 2017, Tencent's share price hit a new record high of HK $320.6, now at HK $319.8, up 2.7%, the latest total market value of HK $30375 billion, surpassing Alibaba's US $387.827 billion (about HK $3032.57 billion), becoming the largest listed company in China's market value, ranking eighth in the global market value ranking. Berkshire Hathaway, second only to Buffett. [33]
On August 16, 2017, Tencent announced its consolidated results for the second quarter and interim period ended June 30, 2017, with a total revenue of RMB106.158 billion (US $15.67 billion) and a non-GAAP profit of RMB30.859 billion (US $4.555 billion) for the period.
On November 7, 2017, Tencent announced a 10% stake in Snap [34] . On November 22, Tencent officially reached a strategic cooperation with PUBG company to obtain the exclusive agent operation right of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds (Jedi Survival) in China. On November 23, Tencent and MTR Corporation Limited officially signed a cooperation agreement to cooperate on WeChat Pay and WeChat Pay HK (wechat Hong Kong Wallet) mobile payment services in MTR. [35]
On January 2, 2018, Shenzhen Securities Regulatory Bureau issued an approval reply on approving the qualification of securities investment fund sales business of Tengan Information Technology (Shenzhen) Co., LTD., approving the qualification of securities investment fund sales business of Tengan Technology. On January 19, Tencent and Google announced the signing of a patent cross-licensing agreement covering a number of products and technologies. The two sides will work together to explore the future with science and technology in a more open and cooperative attitude [36] .
On January 23, 2018, Tencent and Carrefour reached a strategic cooperation agreement in China. [37]
In January 2018, Tencent took a stake Heilan House .
On February 8, 2018, Tencent took a strategic stake of 3 billion yuan Shanda game . [38]
On March 2, 2018, People's Daily Online, Tencent and Gehua Cable (including its funds) will establish a video joint venture to jointly develop live streaming and short video fields.
On March 7, 2018, Tencent and Mediatek jointly established an innovation lab to reach strategic cooperation around the development and optimization of mobile games and other interactive entertainment products, and jointly explore the application of AI in the terminal side. [39]
On May 5, 2018, Tencent and People's Education Press officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing. In the future, the two sides will focus on the in-depth research and promotion of new technologies, new products and their application in the field of education, including AR textbooks, Everyone, personalized learning platform, cloud services, smart campus, etc., to jointly promote the integration and innovation of information technology education and teaching. At the same time, cooperation will be strengthened in the field of education and public welfare. [40]
On May 9, 2018, the UK Department for International Trade and Tencent signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation in London, announcing extensive cooperation in the field of cultural and creative industries to help the rapid development of cultural and creative industries with digital means. [41]
On May 15, 2018, Tencent announced its unaudited consolidated results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2018. Tencent reported revenue of 73.528 billion yuan ($11.693 billion) in the first quarter, up 48 percent from the same period last year. [42] On June 20, 2018, World Brand Lab (World Brand Lab) released 2018 in Beijing China's 500 Most Valuable Brands Analyze the report. Tencent is second.
In July 2018, Datang Telecom Group and Tencent signed a 5G strategic cooperation framework agreement to accelerate the industrialization of 5G [43] .
On July 19, 2018, the 2018 Fortune Global 500 list was released, and Tencent ranked 331st. [44]
On July 25, 2018, Tencent and Donghua Medical Technology Co., Ltd. announced in Beijing that they jointly released the "one chain and three clouds" strategy for the medical and health field, and six joint solutions for the landing strategy. [45]
In September 2018, the Beijing traffic management department once again issued intelligent network car road test licenses, and Tencent became a new batch of companies to obtain licenses. [46]
On October 3, 2018, Bilibili and Tencent Holdings jointly announced that they had reached an agreement for Tencent Holdings to invest a total of $317.6 million in Bilibili. [47]
On October 20, 2018, the Fat Cat Cloud (Shanghai) technology company, a joint venture between Tencent and Zhaogang, was officially established, of which Zhaogang held 60% and Tencent held 40%. [48]
On October 11, 2019, the Hebei Provincial Government officially signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Tencent. The two sides will rely on Hebei's advantages in policy, talent, planning and industrial resources, and actively play Tencent's core technology and financial capital advantages in the fields of mobile Internet, cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence. Promote the deep integration of Hebei's digital government livelihood project with the new generation of information technology. [49]
On March 18, 2020, Tencent released the fourth quarter and annual performance report of 2019. In Q4 2019, Tencent's revenue was 105.767 billion yuan, an increase of 25% year-on-year, and its net profit (Non-IFRS) was 25.484 billion yuan, an increase of 29% year-on-year. This is the first time that Tencent's revenue has exceeded 100 billion yuan in a single quarter. For the whole year of 2019, Tencent's revenue was 377.289 billion yuan, up 21% year-on-year, and its net profit (Non-IFRS) was 94.351 billion yuan, up 22% year-on-year [50] .
On March 31, 2020, Beijing time, Tencent became a global partner of the United Nations Headquarters, providing comprehensive technical solutions for the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, and organizing thousands of conference events through Tencent Conferences, corporate wechat and Tencent Simultaneous online. [51]
On May 26, 2020, Tang Daosheng, president of Tencent Cloud and smart industry business group, announced that Tencent will invest 500 billion yuan in the next five years for the further layout of new infrastructure. [52]
In June 2020, Tencent Holdings acquired a 10.4% stake in U.S. music recording company Warner Music Group, valuing its investment at about $244 million at current prices. [53]
On July 13, 2021, the General Administration of Market Supervision unconditionally approved Tencent's acquisition of Sogou's equity. [129]
On the evening of July 13, 2021, Meituan Announced the completion of the Tencent subscription. Upon completion of the Tencent Subscription, Meituan has allocated and issued 11,352,600 Tencent Subscription Shares to Tencent, representing 0.2% of the issued share capital of Meituan augmented by the issuance of Tencent Subscription Shares. [130]
1 August 2021: A wholly owned subsidiary of Tencent Holdings Limited will acquire a 7% stake in Hengteng Networks at HK $3.20 per share for a total consideration of HK $2.069 billion. [134]
On August 6, 2021, according to the official website of the China Internet Network Information Center, Tencent has opened the "QQ" in 2021. China "and" Tencent. China "two domain names. Among them, "QQ.China" analysis to Tencent network, "Tencent. China "analysis to Tencent's official website. [135]
In September 2021, it was selected into the list of "Top 500 Private Enterprises in China in 2021", ranking 6th. [142]
In September 2021, Sogou Become an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Tencent Holdings [140] . On October 15, Sogou officially merged into Tencent [145] .
On November 9, 2021, CAICT, together with Alibaba Group, Ant Group, Kuaishou Group, Ele. me, Tencent, Bilibili and 360 Group, jointly established the "Information Accessibility Technology and Intellectual Property Opening Working Group". [147]
On the evening of December 1, 2021, Tencent Group announced that the company's Board of Directors decided to issue a total of 4410,829 award shares to more than 25,700 employees. [151]
In 2021, at the 9th Data Center Standards Summit of CDCC, Tencent officially released IDC operation and maintenance robots. [152]
On December 16, 2021, the iOS version of QQ Music was updated in the App Store and upgraded to version 11.0.5, which is also the first Tencent product update since November 24, 2021 after the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology adopted transitional administrative guidance measures. [155]
In 2021, Beijing Wise World Technology Co., LTD., an affiliated company of Zhihu, underwent industrial and commercial changes, and Shenzhen Litong Industrial Investment Fund Co., LTD., an affiliated company of Tencent, withdrew from the ranks of shareholders. [158]
On the morning of December 23, 2021, Tencent announced that it would issue about 460 million shares of Jingdong equity to shareholders in the form of interim dividend. After the dividend, Tencent's shareholding in JD will be reduced from 17% to 2.3%, no longer the largest shareholder, and Tencent president Martin Lau will also step down from JD's board of directors. [159]
On January 17, 2022, Tencent Games Release the "Winter Vacation Play Calendar", during the winter vacation and Spring Festival holiday, minors are limited to play time, up to 14 hours. [163]
In February 2022, Tencent 1.8 billion won the largest film and television copyright distributor distribution rights, Tiktok B station needs to buy from Tencent Copyright. [169]
On February 14, 2022, the Indian government banned the download of 54 more mobile applications (apps), many of which are large Chinese technology companies, on the grounds that they pose a threat to the privacy and security of Indians Tencent. [170]
In February 2022, Tencent increased its donation to HK $50 million to support Hong Kong Hong Kong is fighting the epidemic. [171]
In March 2022, developer TEQUILA WORKS announced that Tencent had acquired a majority stake in the developer. [175]
On the evening of March 23, 2022, Tencent Holdings announced its annual results for 2021: profit attributable to equity holders was 224.82 billion yuan, an increase of 41% year-on-year. [178]
On March 23, 2022, Tencent released its fourth quarter and full year 2021 results report. In Q4 2021, Tencent's net profit (Non-IFRS) was 24.88 billion yuan, down 25% year-on-year, and net profit has declined for two consecutive quarters. In 2021, Tencent's net profit (Non-IFRS) was 123.788 billion yuan, up 1% year on year, and also the lowest net profit growth in nearly ten years. [179]
On March 23, 2022, Tencent released financial results: revenue in 2021 reached 560.1 billion yuan, an increase of 16%, and Tencent's annual net profit in 2021 was 228.42 billion yuan, compared with 159.847 billion yuan in the same period last year. Among them, the game and social network business Shou Rui still accounted for a relatively large, as of December 31, 2021, Tencent 2021 social network revenue of 117.3 billion yuan, an increase of 8%. [180] According to the financial report, as of December 31, 2021, Tencent Group had 112,771 employees (2020:85,858). [181]
On March 23, 2022, Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) released the 2021 performance report, and the profit growth slowed down, but the To B business surpassed the game to become the largest source of revenue for Tencent Q4. Behind it, Tencent actively switched the development engine, increased digital investment and consolidated the underlying capabilities of digital technology, and promoted the exploration of industrial Internet more deeply. We will promote the development of the real economy through science and technology, actively embrace the new environment and explore new development paths. [182]
In April 2022, the Reporting Center of the Central Cyberspace Administration released the acceptance and disposal of online infringement reports on major commercial website platforms in March, and Tencent accepted 11,293 infringement complaints. [187]
On May 18, 2022, Tencent Holdings released its financial report for the first quarter of 2022. Earnings show that the company's first-quarter revenue of 135.5 billion yuan, flat year-on-year; Net profit of 23.4 billion yuan, down 51% year-on-year, non-IFRS net profit of 25.5 billion yuan, down 23% year-on-year. [190]
On June 9, 2022, Tencent released two energy industry products for the first time, "Energy Connector (TencentEnerLink)" and "Energy digital Twin (TencentEnerTwin)." [192]
Press Trust of India, June 12, 2022: Tencent has purchased $264 million worth of Flipkart shares through its European subsidiary, according to official documents. Flipkart, a Singapore-based e-commerce company, operates exclusively in India. Following the deal, Tencent holds a 0.72% stake in Flipkart, which would be worth about $264 million based on the e-commerce company's most recent valuation of $37.6 billion disclosed in July 2021. [194]
On June 16, 2022, Tencent QQ official micro released a message that QQv8.8.95 officially launched the "intelligent video subtitles" function, and video messages in the chat support the display of subtitles. According to reports, the smart video subtitles function currently only supports Mandarin, and only for Android. [196]
In June 2022, Tencent officially announced the establishment of an "Extended Reality" (XR) department, officially betting on the meta-universe concept of virtual worlds. The XR unit is tasked with building an extended reality business for Tencent, including software and hardware, and will be part of the company's Interactive Entertainment Business Group (IEG). [197]
In early June 2022, Chengdu High-tech Zone and Tencent signed a cooperation agreement, announcing that Tencent Future Center project officially landed in Chengdu. [198]
On July 5, 2022, Tencent's "Palm WeGame" operation team today released the "Palm WeGame" delisting announcement, which shows that the "Palm WeGame" products (including the palm WeGame App, WeBiBi wechat mini program and WeBiBi H5 version), The operation will be terminated at [59] hours [23] on September 8, 2022. [199]
On August 7, 2022, IT Home news, Tencent Watch App officially released a offline announcement, at 23:59 on August 15, 2022, Watch App server will be closed and officially stop operation, then it will not be able to log in watch Ap p. [205]
On August 17, 2022, Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) released its financial results for the second quarter of 2022. According to the financial report, Tencent's total revenue in the second quarter was 134 billion yuan, down 3% year-on-year; Net profit of 18.6 billion yuan, down 56% year-on-year, non-IFRS adjusted net profit of 28.1 billion yuan, down 17% year-on-year. It was Tencent's fourth consecutive quarter of falling net profit. [206]
On the morning of October 20, 2022, dragged down by the heavy fall of the overnight Chinese stocks, Hong Kong technology stocks fell collectively today, Tencent fell more than 5% to HK $231 during the day, the stock price hit a new low since May 2017, and compared with the highest price of HK $747.14 in February 2021, the market value fell to HK $2.22 trillion. [211]
In November 2022, Tencent wifi Butler issued a disservice announcement, due to business adjustment, Tencent wifi Butler will officially stop service from 00:00 on December 1, 2022. [214]
On November 30, 2022, at the 2022 Tencent Global Digital Ecology Conference, Tencent Cloud Industrial Internet Headquarters Base officially landed in Shenzhen Bao 'an and held the unveiling ceremony. [216]
On December 10, 2022, Tencent announced that Tencent SSV Digital Culture Lab, Tencent Youtu Lab, Anyang City Cultural Heritage Bureau and Anyang Oracle Information Processing Lab will work together to build Oracle open innovation platform. AI technology will be used for oracle analysis. [218]
On December 19, 2022, Nexon, South Korea's largest game developer, announced a cooperation with Tencent Cloud to jointly build a virtual world community platform NEXONTOWN based on Tencent Cloud's real-time audio and video (TRTC) technology. [220]
On February 16, 2023, Tencent announced the official dissolution of the XR (Mixed reality) team. [225] March 29 news, in 2023 wechat open class PRO, wechat announced the video number, wechat Pay, small program, enterprise wechat, search a new plan. [228]
On March 30, 2023, Tencent officially released the AI intelligent creation assistant "Tencent Smart film", launched the smart film digital person, text dubbing, article to video and other AI creation tools. Among them, Zhiying digital people can achieve "image cloning" and "sound cloning", creators by uploading a small number of pictures, videos and audio materials, they can get their own digital human dopes and customized timbings, and then quickly generate their own digital human broadcast video. [230]
On April 12, 2023, Tencent QQ mailbox announced that due to business adjustment, the QQ mailbox "associated mailbox account" function will terminate the service on May 15, 2023, and the associated mailbox account will be automatically disassociated after the service is terminated. [232]
On April 20, 2023, Tencent launched a wechat mini program for collecting rare characters for Chinese people, which is a rare character submission entry guided and recommended by the Electronics Industry Standardization Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. [233]
In April 2023, Tencent Robotics X Laboratory announced the latest robot research progress, showing the achievements in the field of dexterous operation for the first time, and launched the self-developed robot dexterous hand TRX-Hand and robotic arm TRX-Arm. [234]
On April 26, 2023, China Unicom and Tencent further deepened their cooperation and jointly funded Yunzhou Times Technology Co., Ltd. was formally established in Beijing. [235]
On May 9, 2023, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Tencent. According to the agreement, the two sides will carry out research and development of the world's first "high-fidelity digital giant panda" in the next three years. [236]
On June 24, 2023, according to fast technology news, Tencent has two national social apps, one is wechat, one is QQ, almost everyone must install, you can use QQ to log in to wechat in the early years, but it was later canceled, and now the reverse, landing QQ account can use wechat.
After the QQ upgrade and another function, the landing interface in addition to the QQ number, mobile phone number, QID/ mailbox number and another landing option, that is, binding wechat signals, that is, you can use wechat signals to land QQ. [240]
On July 5, 2023, Tencent's audio platform Penguin FM issued a offline announcement, saying that due to business adjustments, Penguin FM will close user registration and recharge functions from now on, and officially stop operations at 0 o 'clock on September 6, 2023. [242]
July 7, 2023 news, in the recently held 2023 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Tencent Multimedia Lab exhibited the self-developed AI universal composition framework XMusic. [243]
In August 2023, Tencent released the second quarter of 2023 financial results, the quarterly revenue of 149.2 billion yuan, the same period of last year's revenue of 134.034 billion yuan, the market expected 151.955 billion yuan. [247]
On September 7, 2023, at the 2023 Tencent Global Digital Ecology Conference, Tencent officially released the mixed-yuan large model, the parameter scale is super dry 100 million, has been tested in a number of internal products, and announced that it is open to the outside world through Tencent Cloud. [248-249]
On October 16, 2023, Tencent Backlog issued an announcement saying that due to the adjustment of business development direction, Tencent Backlog will be fully discontinued on December 20, 2023 Battalion and removed from the shelves. [254]
On November 6, 2023, the global network security patent ranking was released, and Tencent ranked third with 4,803 patents. [255]
On November 10, 2023, it was reported by foreign media that Tencent will start selling Meta VR headsets in China later in 2024 [256] . On the same day, Tencent Group announced that it will release the international version of the low-carbon community platform "Carbon LIVE" at the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference. [257]
In December 2023, the results of the first official "large model standard compliance evaluation" in China were released, and Tencent's Tencent hybrid large model products passed the evaluation, representing that they reached the relevant national standards in the dimensions of versatility and intelligence Ask. [262]
On March 15, 2024, Tencent, Tsinghua University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology jointly launched a new Tucson video model "Follow-Your-Click", based on the image of the input model, just click on the corresponding area, plus a small number of prompt words, you can make the original static area in the picture move, one click to convert to video. [263]
On March 20, 2024, Tencent announced its fourth quarter and full year results for 2023. According to the financial report, Tencent's online game business revenue in 2023 was 179.9 billion yuan, an increase of 5.4%. Among them, in 2023, the proportion of international market revenue in Tencent's total game revenue increased to 30% for the first time. [267]
In March 2024, Tencent will offer some of its applications on Vision Pro. [268]
On the afternoon of April 24, 2024, Tencent released the "global intelligence" solution for the large model of the automotive industry, providing a full-stack large model capability base from the model, computing power, AI engineering platform to AI applications. [271]
On April 25, 2024, Toyota Motor issued a statement saying that at the Beijing International Auto Show, Toyota officially announced the opening of a strategic partnership with Tencent Group. According to the statement, the cooperation between the two parties will combine Tencent's AI grand model, cloud and digital ecology with Toyota's "software-defined vehicle" (SDV). [272]

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In November 2022, according to the enterprise Chacha APP, Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., LTD. 's invention patent "training method for face change identification model, face change identification method, device and equipment" was authorized. [215]
On December 20, 2022, according to the Chinese Patent Announcement of the State Intellectual Property Office (application publication number: CN115494988A), Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. applied for the "red envelope distribution method and its device, storage media, program products" patent was authorized to be published. [221]

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Architecture system

Corporate Development Business Group (CDG) : It is a platform for the company to incubate new business and explore new business forms, and promote the development and innovation in the fields of fintech business, including basic payment and financial applications, advertising and marketing services and international business. At the same time, as a professional support platform, it provides strategic planning, investment and mergers and acquisitions, investor relations and international communications, market public relations and other professional support for the company and various business groups.
Interactive Entertainment Business Group (IEG) : Develop online games, e-sports and other interactive entertainment business, and create a vertical ecological chain from planning, research and development, distribution, operation and marketing. We are committed to creating high-quality products for Chinese and global game users and enhancing the overall gaming experience through online games, live streaming and offline esports.
Technical Engineering Group (TEG) : Provide technology and operation platform support, research and development management, data center construction and operation for the company and various business groups, and provide customers with full line of product customer service. As a business group that operates the largest network, server cluster and data center in Asia, Tencent leads the Technology Committee to support business innovation through internal distributed and open source collaboration, strengthen basic research and development, and build a technology center.
Wechat Business Group (WXG) : Build and operate the wechat ecosystem, rely on the wechat basic platform, and wechat public account, mini program, wechat payment, enterprise wechat, wechat search and other open platforms, to provide solutions and connectivity for the intelligent upgrading of all walks of life. At the same time develop and operate including mailbox, address book, wechat reading and other products.
Cloud & Smart Industry Group (CSIG) : Promote the cloud and industrial Internet strategy, rely on cloud, security, artificial intelligence and other technological innovation, and create smart industry upgrading solutions. Explore the innovative interaction between users and the industry, open up different enterprises from upstream and downstream of the industry, link online and offline scenes and resources, help the digital upgrading of retail, medical, education, transportation and other industries, and assist enterprises to serve users more intelligently and build a new smart industry ecology connecting users and business.
Platform and Content Business Group (PCG) : We will promote the integrated development of Internet platforms and content culture ecology, integrate social platforms such as QQ and QZone, traffic platforms such as app and browser, and content platforms such as news, video, sports, live broadcasting, animation and film to create a better growth environment for content ecology. At the same time, driven by technology, we will promote the cross-platform and multi-form development of IP to create diversified and high-quality digital content experiences for more users.
Above reference materials: [55] 54 -

Organizational structure

In 2005, it was upgraded to BU (Business Unit). In 2012, it was upgraded to BG (Business Group).
On September 30, 2018, Tencent announced the organizational structure adjustment plan: on the basis of the original seven business groups (BG), retain the original Enterprise Development business Group (CDG), Interactive Entertainment Business Group (IEG), Technology Engineering Business Group (TEG), and wechat business Group (WXG); Newly established Cloud and Intelligence Business Group (CSIG) and Platform and Content Business Group (PCG). [56]

Business introduction

QQ
Social contact
QQ (Every day, Le in communication) : QQ is a Tencent company launched an instant messaging platform across the PC and mobile Internet era. Rich features and interesting gameplay make QQ one of the most popular social platforms among young Chinese users. Users can chat with friends anytime and anywhere, video, bucket map, with themes, bubbles, pendants and other personalized dress up to make themselves different, here to make new friends with similar interests; Cm show to open young people's exclusive personalized chat mode; Swim in the entertainment ocean of animation, literature and mobile games; Experience the new mobile payment of QQ wallet, which brings phone charge recharge, online shopping, transfer and collection.
wechat
wechat (wechat, is a way of life) : Launched in 2011, wechat, with a pure innovative concept, has brought changes to the lives of hundreds of millions of users. A new mobile lifestyle that integrates instant communication, entertainment, social networking and life services is gradually taking shape in wechat. Users can realize various forms of instant communication by sending voice, picture and text messages; "Shake it" and "Nearby People" create a new social experience; "Circle of friends" share life and promote acquaintances to socialize; "Game Center" and "Emoji Store" provide more entertainment and leisure life experience; "Public platform" allows each user to build their own brand, but also let more innovations continue to flow out; Wechat Pay has opened the door to mobile life. As of the third quarter of 2016, the combined monthly active accounts of "WeChat and wechat" reached 846 million. Connect to create smart life. With the Internet as the medium, wechat has grown from a communication tool to an open platform connecting various industries, connecting people and devices, connecting people and enterprise services, and feeling smart life.
qzone (Share life, keep moving) : QZone is a large social platform that includes various relationship chains of Internet users, satisfying the needs of users for display, communication and entertainment, and is committed to building an open platform for the Chinese Internet, and providing excellent and personalized social services for hundreds of millions of Internet users together with third-party websites. As of the third quarter of 2016, the number of monthly active accounts on QQ space reached 632 million.
Tencent Weibo (Your voice, the echo of the world) : Tencent Weibo is a social media platform based on social networks, with both "media" and "social network" attributes. Tencent Weibo aims to establish a human-centered communication network, contribute real-time, dynamic and diversified value content, and meet users' personalized information communication and self-media establishment needs.
(Above references: [57] )
finance
Tenpay
Tenpay Tenpay is a professional online payment platform officially launched by Tencent in September 2005, committed to providing secure, convenient and professional online payment services for Internet users and enterprises. Tenpay has built a new comprehensive payment platform, covering B2B, B2C and C2C fields, providing excellent online payment and clearing services, and is the second largest online payment platform in China.
Wechat Pay (wechat Pay, more than payment) : wechat Pay is a payment function integrated in the wechat client, and users can complete the rapid payment process through their mobile phones. Wechat Pay provides users with safe, fast and efficient payment services based on the fast payment of bank cards. Wechat Pay was officially launched with wechat version 5.0 on August 5, 2013, and external access applications were officially opened on March 4, 2014.
QQ Wallet (one-stop life service) : QQ Wallet is a mobile payment product that supports bank card payment, Q coin payment, and NFC bus card recharge, providing a safe and convenient payment experience for hundreds of millions of mobile QQ users. In terms of payment scenario, QQ wallet not only covers the daily life of clothing, food, housing and transportation, but also meets the unique recharge needs of mobile QQ users. In terms of security, QQ wallet sets up multiple password protection and makes a security commitment of "pay at will and pay in full". Your mobile life is accompanied by QQ wallet.
Tencent Money Connect (wechat Finance, you are about Finance) : As the official financial platform of Tencent, Tencent Finance, adhering to the concept of user value and open connection, works with financial institutions such as banks, insurance, funds, brokerages, trusts and other companies to customize financial products of fixed income, stocks, bonds and other asset classes for users according to the financial needs of different risk levels. Tencent Financial Connect has launched wage investment, dream plan, index investment, credit card repayment finance, mortgage finance and other product functions to provide users with safe, stable, convenient and diversified Internet financial services.
Tencent micro gold : Asset security management, the share of gold held by users in this service is registered and managed by ICBC, and is only displayed and operated through Tencent Microgold platform. As a third-party payment institution, Tenpay fully guarantees the security of payment transaction funds and provides consulting services for users.
Tencent Financial Security: protects the financial security of hundreds of millions of Internet users in China, and provides security technical support and risk control solutions for Tencent Internet financial products such as wechat Pay, QQ Wallet and Wealth Management.
(Above references: [57] )
recreation
Tencent Game ICONS
Tencent Games (Create Happiness with Your Heart) : Founded in 2003, Tencent Games is a leading game development and operation organization in the world and the largest online game community in China. Tencent Games with the concept of "creating happiness with heart", through the work in MOBA, FPS, RPG, ACT, sports, racing, chess and other product segments, it includes a number of high-quality games such as League of Heroes, Cross Fire, dungeon and warriors, King Glory, etc. We are committed to providing players with a "trustworthy", "happy" and "professional" interactive entertainment experience. Under the open development mode, Tencent Games adopts the combination of internal independent research and development and external diversified cooperation, and has formed a professional layout in a number of market segments, and achieved good market performance, becoming the leader of the domestic game industry.
Tencent Pictures Tencent Pictures, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tencent, was established on September 17, 2015. Tencent Pictures adheres to the concept of not making films in isolation, and is committed to creating "young, unique, high-quality and connected" film and television works. Tencent Pictures has three studios: Big Dream Film Studio, Blackbody Studio and Evolution Entertainment Studio. Among them, Big Dream Film Studio focuses on the new upgrade of cinema type films, Blackbody studio focuses on the development of film and television projects, and Evolution Entertainment studio focuses on the creation of domestic original animated films.
Tencent Animation (You want to see, only in Tencent Animation) : Tencent Animation is China's largest legitimate online animation platform, officially launched on March 21, 2012. Tencent animation has more than 22,000 high-quality, exclusive and genuine animation works. Tencent Animation is a platform that cooperates with Japan's Shueisha, Kadokawa Group and Kodansha, and is also the platform with the most Japanese anime copyright in China. In 2015, Tencent Animation proposed a new business strategy based on the animation industry, "two-yuan economy", leading China's animation industry to move forward. In 2016, Tencent animation launched Kanban girl "Penguin girl". Tencent Animation layout PC station, Android client, iOS client, Html5, QQ animation, Tencent news client and other product lines, covering 90 million monthly active users.
China Literature Group
Tencent esports (Crown you) : Tencent esports, the most competitive esports brand in China, Tencent esports business began to layout with TGA in 2010, and was established on December 9, 2016. Tencent e-sports has formed a relatively complete event system, which includes six categories of event products, including MOBA, FPS, ACT, sports competition, racing, chess and card, while the single-product event system and comprehensive event system are also basically perfect.
China Literature Group ( Tencent Literature China Literature Group, formerly known as Tencent Literature, was established on September 10, 2013. In 2015, Tencent Literature and the original Shanda Literature integrated to establish a subsidiary "China Literature Group", which is a leading legitimate digital reading platform and literary IP cultivation platform in China. China Literature Group owns well-known brands such as QQ Reading, Qidian Chinese Website, Genesis Chinese Website and Yunqi Academy. China Literature Group has a reserve of 10 million works, covering more than 200 content categories, and its products cover five major reading scenes such as PC, mobile, audio, paper books, and e-paper books, reaching 600 million users and 4 million creators stationed on China Literature platform.
Tencent Music Entertainment Group Tencent Music Entertainment Group (NYSE: TME) is a leader in online music entertainment services in China. It has the most popular and unique music platforms in China: QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kugi Music and national K Song. Tencent Music is committed to creating infinite possibilities for music, enabling music with technology so that everyone can create, enjoy, share music and interact with each other. Tencent Music provides online music, online karaoke and music live streaming services, so that every music lover can discover good music and get a comprehensive music entertainment experience that integrates listening, watching, singing, performing and socializing.
QQ Music (音乐你的生活):作为中国领先的网络音乐平台,以及中国互联网领域领先的正版数字音乐服务提供商,QQ音乐为广大用户提供方便流畅的在线音乐和丰富多彩的音乐社区服务,是中国大陆地区网民在线音乐生活的首选品牌,引领着人们的音乐生活方式。
Tencent Video
Tencent Video (Live up to the good times) : Tencent Video is China's largest online video platform, with a wealth of high-quality popular content and professional media operation capabilities, and is a comprehensive video content platform integrating hot movies and TV dramas, high-quality exclusive content, sports events, major events, news and information. In March 2014, Tencent Video became the most popular video website in China with 318 million monthly coverage users. In addition, while bringing quality content experience to users, Tencent Video has further upgraded to become a new entertainment platform with the most Internet attributes by integrating Tencent's unique mobile and social product system.
(Above references: [57] )
message
Mobile phone qq.com Logo
Tencent As the leading Chinese language portal in China, Tencent provides hundreds of millions of Internet users in China with a creative new online life through powerful real-time news and comprehensive information services.
Tencent news client : A rich and timely news app, with the goal of being concise and lightweight, to provide users with an efficient and high-quality reading experience.
(Above references: [57] )
QQ browser
tool
QQ browser (I want it now) : QQ browser supports different end users to access the Internet quickly, mobile browser independently developed X5 kernel in speed, traffic saving, stability in the industry leading, comprehensive features to meet the different needs of users.
Tencent mobile butler (Play cool, reliable) : Tencent mobile Butler is a mobile phone security and management software produced by Tencent covering three smart platforms, currently ranked first in the market by the number of monthly users. Adhering to the concept of "mobile phone security management pioneer", on the basis of providing security protection such as virus detection and killing, harassment and interception, it has mobile phone anti-theft, privacy protection and other functions. Provide convenient mobile phone acceleration, traffic monitoring and other management functions. Provide all-round security escort and intimate management for smart phone terminals.
Tencent Computer Manager
Tencent Computer Manager Tencent Computer Manager is the first domestic integrated "antivirus + management" 2-in-1 function of free network security software, including "antivirus, real-time protection, vulnerability repair, system cleaning, computer acceleration, software management" and other functions, won AVC, VB100, West Coast and other international well-known authorities professional recognition. Butler continues to support technology, strengthen functional services, and strive to become a professional free security software that users trust most.
Tencent map (Dream big, Dare to explore) : China focuses on digital map content, navigation and location services solution providers, with 35 billion daily location.
QQ email (You can find more) : As a basic product of network platform services, QQ mailbox has a letter instant reminder, reading space, 1G large attachments, audio and video mail and other features.
(Above references: [57] )
platform
Tencent Open platform (Open to achieve dreams) : Tencent Open platform is a big stage for Tencent to provide its partners based on its own capabilities. Through the PC, mobile, and multi-terminal open interfaces provided by open.qq.com, partners can access excellent and creative social games and utility tools at one point and release them to hundreds of millions of user platforms such as QQ, wechat, QQ Space, and App Bao to obtain traffic and revenue. As of September 2016, Tencent's open platform had access to more than 6 million startups, and the total valuation of partner companies exceeded 300 billion yuan. Nationwide, there are 30 Tencent maker Spaces with a total area of 1 million square meters.
Tencentcloud (Trustworthy) : Tencent Cloud is a public cloud platform built for enterprises and individuals based on Tencent's experience in massive Internet services. It provides basic cloud computing services such as cloud server, cloud database, cloud storage and CDN for developers, as well as industry solutions such as games, videos and mobile applications. (Above references: [57] )
Tencent Search
As of 2023 Tencent search has now covered wechat and QQ browser scenarios. [253]

Research and development data

On March 21, 2022, Tencent officially released the "2021 Tencent Research and Development Big Data Report" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"), which was produced by Tencent Technical Committee and disclosed important data on Tencent's research and development investment, research and development efficiency, open source collaboration and technology public welfare in 2021.
According to the "report" data show that in 2021, the number of Tencent R & D personnel increased by 41% year-on-year, and the R & D team continued to grow. More than 6,000 new research and development projects, an increase of 51% over 2020; 3.2 billion lines of new code were added, an increase of 60% over 2020. [177]

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Corporate performance

year
The first quarter
Second quarter
The third quarter
Fourth quarter
annual
Total revenue
Net earnings
Total revenue
Net earnings
Total revenue
Net earnings
Total revenue
Net earnings
Total revenue
Net earnings
2022
1354.71 [191]
234.13 [191]
2019
854.65
272.1
888.21
275.21
972.36
244.12
1057.67
254.84
3772.89
943.51
2018
735.28
232.90
736.75
218.07
805.95
278.61
848.96
142.29
3126.94
774.69
2017
495.52
192.72
566.06
225.60
652.10
227.46
663.92
257.24
2377.60
903.02
2016
319.95
133.98
356.91
143.29
403.88
144.60
438.64
139.30
1519.38
561.17
2015
223.99
93.72
234.29
100.36
265.94
103.31
304.41
108.88
1028.63
406.27
2014
184.0
77.90
197.46
78.43
198.08
75.15
209.78
73.94
789.32
305.42
2013
135.476
50.625
143.845
45.651
155.351
48.158
169.70
47.51
604.37
191.94
2012
96.479
36.914
105.272
39.376
115.656
41.244
121.531
37.261
438.937
154.794
2011
63.384
33.865
67.390
27.839
74.962
29.916
79.225
30.916
284.961
122.535
2010
42.261
21.484
46.692
23.714
52.266
26.659
55.242
26.525
196.460
98.382
2009
25.044
11.646
28.784
13.989
33.689
16.803
36.883
17.767
124.400
60.205
2008
14.329
7.373
15.998
7.653
20.245
8.105
20.97
9.329
71.545
32.460
2007
7.731
3.274
8.680
3.624
10.576
4.703
11.222
4.750
38.209
16.350
2006
6.453
2.816
7.050
3.100
7.369
3.275
7.132
2.442
28.004
11.633
2005
3.005
0.97
3.337
1.188
3.628
1.172
4.294
1.450
14.264
4.78
2004
Available June 16
2.705
1.133
3.01
1.08
3.145
1.181
11.435
4.467
(Above references: [58-72] , unit: 100 million yuan)

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General meeting of shareholders

Major shareholders: Tencent and its founder, MIH TC Holdings Limited, ABSA Bank, Pony Ma. (as at 16 June 2004) [73]

Board of directors

name
job
Pony Ma
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
Martin Lau
Executive Director and President
Jacobus Petrus (Koos) Bekker
Non-executive director
Charles St Leger Searle
Non-executive director
Li Dongsheng
Independent non-executive director
Iain Ferguson Bruce
Independent non-executive director
Ian Charles Stone
Independent non-executive director
Yang Shaoxin
Independent non-executive director
Ke Yang
Independent non-executive director
(As of August 15, 2019, Reference: [74-76] )

management

Pony Ma Mr. Wang is one of the main founders of Tencent, Chairman of the Board, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, and is responsible for the strategic planning, positioning and management of the Group.
Martin Lau , president of Tencent. In 2005, he joined Tencent as Chief Strategic Investment Officer, responsible for corporate strategy, investment, mergers and acquisitions and investor relations. He was promoted to President in 2006 and is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the company. In 2007 Mr. Liu was appointed as an Executive Director of the Board.
Xu Chenye Mr. Liu is one of the main founders of Tencent and the Chief information Officer of Tencent. He is responsible for the strategic planning and development of Tencent's website property and community, customer relations and public relations, and is one of the main founders of the Group.
Ren Yuxin Mr. Chen is the Chief Operating Officer of Tencent, President of the Platform and Content Business Group, and President of the Interactive Entertainment business Group. Since May 2012, he has been appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of Tencent and is now responsible for the development of the Interactive entertainment business group, the Social networking business group, the mobile Internet business group and the online media business group. He joined Tencent in 2000 and has been responsible for game development, operation, marketing and channel sales of interactive entertainment business system since September 2005.
JamesGordonMitchell is Chief Strategy Officer and Group Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent. He joined Tencent in August 2011. Overall responsible for the company's strategic planning and implementation, investor relations management, providing Tencent with strategic suggestions on business planning and business models, and strengthening the two-way communication between the company and the investment environment.
Liu Shengyi He is Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent, Chairman of Tencent Advertising, Chairman of Group Markets and Global Brands. He joined Tencent in 2006 and is in charge of Tencent's online media business group, including Tencent, Tencent Video, Tencent Sports, Penguin Pictures, etc. Since 2017, he has assumed the responsibilities of the new Chairman, and is committed to promoting the synergy of advertising business across the company, as well as the internationalization of the group's market and brand; It is also responsible for the development of company-level international strategic partnerships.
Tang Dowson Mr. Chen is Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent, President of Cloud and Smart Industry Business Group, and chairman of Tencent Music Entertainment Group. Since October 2008, he has been fully responsible for the research and development of the social Internet business platform and the management of value-added services. Since May 2012, he has been fully responsible for the development strategy of QQ, QZone and other social network platforms, the strategic planning and business development of Tencent Cloud and Tencent Music, and the joint management of Tencent social advertising business.
Zhang Xiaolong Tencent Senior Executive Vice President and President of wechat Business Group. In March 2005, he joined Tencent as the general manager of Guangzhou R&D Department, and led the team to build QQ Mailbox into the largest mail service provider in China. Later, he was promoted to vice President of the company and senior Vice President of the Group since September 2012. He was fully responsible for the management of wechat, mailbox and other products and teams, and participated in the management and review of major innovation projects of the company. In May 2014, he was promoted to senior Executive Vice President of the company, responsible for leading the work of wechat business group.
Rozan Mr. Chen is Senior Executive Vice President and President of Technology and Engineering Group of Tencent. He joined Tencent in 2000. I have been responsible for the management of Tencent's operating platform system since March 2008, and for the management of the technical engineering business group since May 2012.
netware Mr. Chen is Chief Exploration Officer and Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent. He joined Tencent's senior management team in 2001. Long-term focus on the development of emerging technologies in the United States, leading and actively promoting the company's participation in emerging technologies, innovative ideas and related business fields. Since joining Tencent in 2001, he has been committed to driving the pace of Tencent's internationalization and exploration of new areas.
Ma Xiaoyi Mr. Wang joined Tencent in 2007 and has been responsible for Tencent's global game publishing business since November 2008, establishing and maintaining long-term partnerships with partner companies.
Luo Shuohan Mr. Li joined Tencent in 2004 and served as Tencent's Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President from 2004 to 2008. He was appointed Vice President and Deputy Chief Financial Officer of Tencent in 2008 and Chief Financial Officer in May 2012.
Guo Kaitian , Senior Vice President, Tencent. Joined Tencent in 2002, mainly responsible for the functional system work of Tencent's administration, legal affairs, government relations, public relations, foundation, procurement, and functional management of its branches in Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu.
Xi Dan , Senior Vice President, Tencent. He joined Tencent in 2002 and has been fully responsible for various management functions in the field of talent development and management of Tencent since May 2008.
Wu Xiaoguang Tencent senior management consultant. He joined Tencent in 1999 and was one of the founding team members of Tencent. He led the R&D and product planning of the core instant messaging software QQ client, and successively served as the project manager of QQ R&D team, the general manager of instant messaging Product Department, the general manager of Internet Business Department, the senior executive vice president of Internet business system and the CEO of Tencent E-commerce Holding Company.
Ding Ke , Vice president of Tencent [173]
Zeng Yu Vice President of Tencent and Vice President of PCG Technology. He joined Tencent in 2002 and was promoted to Vice president in 2012. [229]
(Above references: [77-78] )

Honorary life advisor

Zhang Zhidong He is one of the main founders of Tencent, Honorary Advisor for life, Honorary Dean of Tencent College, and has been appointed Honorary Advisor for life of the company since September 2014, and honorary Dean of Tencent College. In November 1998, he participated in the founding of Tencent and served as the company's Chief technology Officer, responsible for the research and development of the Group's proprietary technology, and set up an industry-leading technical team.
Chen Yidan He is one of the main founders of Tencent, honorary lifelong advisor, initiator and honorary chairman of Tencent Charity Foundation. Since March 2013, he has served as the honorary consultant of the company. After founding Tencent in 1998, he became the Chief Administrative Officer of the company, with overall responsibility for the Group's administration, legal, human resources and charitable foundation matters, as well as the Group's management mechanism, intellectual property rights and government relations.
Zeng Liqing Mr. Wang is one of the main founders of Tencent and has been appointed as a Lifetime Honorary Advisor since June 2007. After founding the Group in 1999, he served as the Chief Operating Officer from 1999 to 2007, responsible for the Group's business scope and product categories, as well as managing marketing efforts across the country.
(Above references: [77] )

Company operation

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Founded in November 1998, Tencent is currently one of the leading Internet value-added service providers in China. Since its establishment more than 10 years ago, Tencent has been adhering to the business philosophy of "all user values as the basis", providing stable and high-quality various services for hundreds of millions of users, and has always been in a steady state of development.
Tencent's mission is to improve the quality of human life through Internet services. Tencent has made "connecting everything" a strategic goal, offering two core services: social platforms and digital content. Through instant messaging tools QQ, mobile social and communication services WeChat and wechat, portal QQ.com, Tencent Games, social network platform Qzone and other leading network platforms in China, to meet the needs of Internet users in communication, information, entertainment and finance. Tencent's development has profoundly affected and changed the way of communication and living habits of hundreds of millions of Internet users, and 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. More than 50% of Tencent employees are R&D personnel, with a sound independent research and development system, in storage technology, data mining, multimedia, Chinese processing, distributed network, wireless technology six directions have a considerable number of patents, in the global Internet enterprises in the total number of patent applications and authorization are among the top.
Becoming the most respected Internet company is Tencent's long-term goal. Tencent has been actively participating in public welfare undertakings, striving to assume corporate social responsibility and promote network civilization. In 2006, Tencent established China's first Internet charity foundation, Tencent Charity Foundation, and established the Tencent Charity Network. Adhering to the purpose of "committed to public welfare philanthropy, caring for the growth of young people, advocating corporate civic responsibility, and promoting social harmony and progress", every product and business of Tencent embraces public welfare, open Internet, and advocates all enterprises to act together, through the technology and communication advantages in the Internet field, to create a new Internet public welfare ecology of "everyone can benefit and the people participate in".
(Above references: [79] )
QQ product maximum number of simultaneous online data (record)
time
Record for the highest number of concurrent online users
11 May 2000
100,000
February 10, 2001
One million
10 March 2002
Two million
February 16, 2003
Three million
September 12, 2003
Four million
February 14, 2004
Five million
March 13, 2004
Six million
September 18, 2004
7 million
October 30, 2004
Eight million
December 4, 2004
Nine million
February 16, 2005
10 million
June 3, 2006
20 million
July 13, 2007
30 million
March 22, 2008
40 million
February 9, 2009
50 million
May 16, 2009
60 million
September 5, 2009
70 million
October 10, 2009
80 million
December 11, 2009
90 million
March 5, 2010
100 million
April 11, 2014
200 million
(Above references: [80-82] )
QQ product maximum number of simultaneous online accounts data (Financial report)
A given year
The first quarter
Second quarter
The third quarter
Fourth quarter
The year 2004
Tencent goes public
Not yet released
7.3 million
9.4 million
The year 2005
13.2 million
16.2 million
19.5 million
18.4 million
The year 2006
19.6 million
20.1 million
22.1 million
24.5 million
The year 2007
28.5 million
28.9 million
32.6 million
36.1 million
The year 2008
40.3 million
42 million
45.3 million
49.7 million
The year 2009
57.5 million
61.3 million
75.5 million
93 million
The year 2010
105.3 million
109.4 million
118.7 million
127.5 million
The year 2011
137.2 million
136.7 million
145.4 million
152.7 million
The year 2012
167.4 million
166.6 million
167.3 million
176.4 million
The year 2013
173 million
173.2 million
178.2 million
180 million
The year 2014
199 million
206 million
217 million
217 million
The year 2015
228 million
233 million
239 million
241 million
The year 2016
260 million
247 million
250 million
244 million
The year 2017
266 million
268 million
272 million
271 million
The year 2018
No figures have been released since
QQ product registered account number data
A given year
The first quarter
Second quarter
The third quarter
Fourth quarter
The year 2004
Tencent goes public
330.8 million
355 million
370 million
The year 2005
400.6 million
438.4 million
474.1 million
492.6 million
The year 2006
531.5 million
544.9 million
572.3 million
580.5 million
The year 2007
597.9 million
647.1 million
715.3 million
741.7 million
The year 2008
783.4 million
822.2m
856.2 million
891.9 million
The year 2009
934.9 million
990 million
1.057 billion
No figures have been released since
(The above data is the post-listing financial report data)
Monthly active account data of QQ, wechat and QQ space products
A given year
quarter
QQ monthly active account number
Number of wechat monthly active accounts
Number of monthly active accounts in QQ space
The year 2004
The first quarter
Tencent goes public
Second quarter
110.1 million
The third quarter
119 million
Fourth quarter
135 million
The year 2005
The first quarter
149.2 million
Second quarter
173.1 million
The third quarter
184.8 million
Fourth quarter
201.9 million
The year 2006
The first quarter
220.5 million
Second quarter
224.2 million
The third quarter
221.4 million
Fourth quarter
232.6 million
The year 2007
The first quarter
253.7 million
Second quarter
273.2 million
The third quarter
288.7 million
Fourth quarter
300.2 million
The year 2008
The first quarter
317.9 million
Second quarter
341.9 million
The third quarter
355.1 million
Fourth quarter
376.6 million
The year 2009
The first quarter
410.8 million
Second quarter
448 million
The third quarter
484.9 million
Start publishing data
Fourth quarter
522.9 million
387.8 million
The year 2010
The first quarter
568.6 million
428 million
Second quarter
612.5 million
458.5 million
The third quarter
636.6 million
481.2 million
Fourth quarter
647.6 million
492m
The year 2011
The first quarter
674.3 million
504.8 million
Second quarter
701.9 million
530.7 million
The third quarter
711.7 million
536.9 million
Fourth quarter
721 million
552.1 million
The year 2012
The first quarter
751.9 million
576.7 million
Second quarter
783.6 million
597.6 million
The third quarter
783.9 million
592.8 million
Fourth quarter
798.2 million
Start publishing data
602.7 million
The year 2013
The first quarter
825.4 million
194.4 million
611 million
Second quarter
818.5 million
235.8 million
626.4 million
The third quarter
815.6 million
271.9 million
623.3 million
Fourth quarter
808 million
355 million
625 million
The year 2014
The first quarter
848 million
396 million
644 million
Second quarter
829 million
438 million
645 million
The third quarter
820 million
468 million
629 million
Fourth quarter
815 million
Fifty million
654 million
The year 2015
The first quarter
832 million
549 million
668 million
Second quarter
843 million
600 million
659 million
The third quarter
860 million
650 million
653 million
Fourth quarter
853 million
697 million
640 million
The year 2016
The first quarter
877 million
762 million
648 million
Second quarter
899 million
806 million
652 million
The third quarter
877 million
846 million
632 million
Fourth quarter
868 million
889 million
638 million
The year 2017
The first quarter
861 million
938 million
632 million
Second quarter
850 million
963 million
606 million
The third quarter
843 million
980 million
568 million
Fourth quarter
783 million
989 million
563 million
The year 2018
The first quarter
805 million
1.04 billion
562 million
Second quarter
803 million
1.058 billion
548 million
The third quarter
803 million
1.082 billion
531 million
Fourth quarter
807 million
1.097 billion
532 million
2019
The first quarter
823 million
1.111 billion
571 million
Second quarter
808 million
1.133 billion
554 million
The third quarter
731 million
1.151 billion
517 million
Fourth quarter
727 million
1.165 billion
507 million
(Above references: [58-64] [70] [83-90] Wechat monthly active accounts include WeChat

Corporate culture

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Brand identity

Chinese Internet pager
In 1999, QQ upgraded to Beta3 version and began to design the brand Logo. After that, the image of penguin was selected from the images of pigeons, penguins and other small animals designed by the company's artists. The first penguin was designed in black and white. In October, for the China Hi-tech Fair, Tencent made the QQ slightly fatter and added a scarf. After Tencent found a professional design company on the basis of redesign, the neck around the black scarf into a bright red scarf, one eye round, the other eye blinking. And Q sister later made an official appearance.
Tencent
On December 30, 2005, Tencent changed the new brand logo. The little penguin logo surrounded by green, yellow and red trace lines formed the main part of the brand identity, and was also the most striking part of the brand identity, reflecting the brand connotation of "taking user value and demand as the core".
QQ
The spherical logo takes QQ as the center and spreads outwards into a constantly moving world, indicating that Tencent started from the largest instant messaging community and continued to expand its business scope and operational fields with the development of user needs and Internet applications; The colorful track lines diverging around the main sphere emphasize the meaning of continuous circulation and extension, indicating the continuous development of Tencent with user value and needs as the core, and constantly meeting the various needs of people's online life.
Tencent QQ Little Penguin logo will not exit the stage of the Internet, will continue to assume the responsibility of meeting user information transmission, sharing and communication as a representative of Internet instant messaging, will also convey the wonderful atmosphere of Internet entertainment, continue to bring joy to the vast number of Internet users.

Vision and mission

User oriented, science and technology to good
All based on user value, integrate social responsibility into products and services;
Promote scientific and technological innovation and cultural inheritance, help upgrade all walks of life, and promote the sustainable development of society.

Management concept

Tencent adheres to the management philosophy of "caring for the growth of employees", and strives to create more abundant material security, broader development space, and a richer spiritual and cultural world for every employee.
  • To provide employees with a good working environment and incentive mechanism
  • Improve the staff training system and career development channels, so that employees and enterprises grow simultaneously
  • Fully respect and trust employees, constantly guide and encourage, help them achieve achievements and share joy

Business philosophy

Everything is based on user value

value

Integrity: stick to the bottom line, moral first, honest and fair
Enterprising: no work is too, the courage to break through to take responsibility
Collaboration: Open collaboration, continuous evolution
Creation: Beyond innovation, explore the future
(Above references: [55] )

Company honor

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Award time
Honorary title
Selection agency
2023
Ranked 6th on the Top 500 Private Enterprises in China in 2023
All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce [250]
2023 "Fortune" China's top 500 listed companies list 23rd
Fortune [244]
2023 Hurun China Top 30 Industrial Internet
Hurun Research Institute [241]
Cultural and Tourism Research Base (2023-2025)
Ministry of Culture and Tourism [238]
Included in Forbes' 2023 Global Blockchain 50 list
Forbes [224]
The Hurun China Top 500 2022 list of non-state-owned enterprises The first two [222]
Hurun Research Institute
2022
Top 30 Employers in China [226]
/
Ranked 26th in the Hurun World Top 500 by 2022 [217]
Hurun Research Institute
China's Top 100 private service Enterprises in 2022 Rank 3 [210]
All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce
Ranked 6th in China's Top 500 Private Enterprises in 2022 [209]
All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce
The 39th of China's Top 500 Enterprises in 2022 [208]
China Enterprise Confederation, China Entrepreneur Association
Forbes "China's Top 100 Digital Economy 2022" ranked No. 1 [207]
Forbes
No. 121 on the Fortune Global 500 list in 2022 [204]
Fortune
Ranked 21st on the Fortune China 500 List in 2022 [203]
Fortune
Ranked 5 in the "Top 100 Global Brands 2022" list [195]
/
2021 Ranked third in Guangdong Top 100 Private enterprises [193]
Guangdong Federation of Industry and Commerce
Ranked 28th in the Forbes Global 2000 in 2022 [188]
Forbes
Selected as one of the top 15 R&D competitiveness of Chinese game enterprises [176]
Gamma data
Selected to the 2022 Global Blockchain 50 list [167]
/
Selected in the 2021 cross-industry and cross-field industrial Internet platform list [166]
Hurun China Top 500 2021 [164]
Hurun Research Institute
2022
Guided by the National Cyberspace Administration, China Internet Development Foundation sponsor [219]
The year 2021
Won the 202I annual game Top Ten "Going Out" outstanding game enterprise nomination. [154]
/
The year 2021
On December 20, 2021, Hurun Research Institute released the "Top 100 Global Unicorn Investment Institutions 2021", and Tencent ranked eighth. [157]
Hurun Research Institute
The year 2021
On December 20, 2021, it was listed in the "2021 Top 30 Chinese Unicorn Investment Institutions". [157]
Hurun Research Institute
The year 2021
Ranked 45th in the 2021 Forbes World's Best Employers List [144]
Forbes
The year 2021
# 5 on the Top 500 Asian Brands list [143]
World Brand Lab
The year 2021
2021 China Top 500 net profit top ten companies No. 5. [141]
China Enterprise Confederation, China Entrepreneur Association
The year 2021
2021-2022 National Cultural Export Key Enterprises (Public announcement)
Commerce Department [137]
The year 2021
No. 20 on the 2021 Fortune China 500 List. [133]
Fortune
The year 2021
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region advanced poverty alleviation collective
CPC Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Committee, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region People's Government [126]
The year 2021
2021 Forbes Global 2000 No. 2 9-bit [125]
Forbes
The year 2020
No. 197 on the Fortune Global 500 List in 2020 [91]
Fortune
The year 2020
Ranked 2nd on the Top 500 list of China Brand Festival Annual Meeting 2020 [92]
Brand alliance
The year 2020
Ranked 3rd on the list of the Most valuable enterprises in the field of digital economy in 2020 [93]
Ccid Research Institute
The year 2020
Ranked 25th in the Fortune China 500 in 2020
Fortune [94]
The year 2020
Ranked 9th in China's Top 100 Most Valuable Brands in 2020 [95]
China Brand Value Research Institute
The year 2020
# 7 in the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands 2020 [96]
BrandZ
The year 2020
No. 4 of China's Top 500 Brands in 2020
China Asian Economic Development Association brand management committee
The year 2020
No. 50 on the 2020 Forbes Global 2000 list [97-98]
Forbes
The year 2020
Forbes Blockchain 50 (2nd edition)
Forbes [99]
The year 2020
Second place in 2019 Hurun China Top 500 Private Enterprises
Hurun Research Institute
2019
# 12 on Fortune's 2019 Next 50 list [6]
Fortune [6]
2019
Ranked 6th in Guangdong Top 100 Service Industry in 2019 [100]
Guangdong Enterprise Federation, Guangdong Entrepreneurs Association
2019
Ranked 5th in Guangdong Top 100 Private Enterprises in 2019 [100]
Guangdong Enterprise Federation, Guangdong Entrepreneurs Association
2019
Ranked 11th among the Top 500 Enterprises of Guangdong in 2019 [100]
Guangdong Enterprise Federation, Guangdong Entrepreneurs Association
2019
Top 100 Innovative Enterprises in Guangdong in 2019 [101]
Guangdong Enterprise Federation, Guangdong Entrepreneurs Association
2019
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Hunan Provincial People's Government
2019
China's Top 500 Enterprises 2019 60th place, China's Top 100 multinational Companies list 2019 5th place [103] , ranked 32nd in China's Top 500 service Enterprises in 2019 [4]
China Enterprise Confederation, China Entrepreneur Association [104]
2019
Internet Society of China, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology [105]
2019
Top 50 best Boards in China [106]
Fortune
2019
Top 30 listed Internet companies in the world
China Academy of Information and Communications Technology [107]
2019
Ranked 27th on the Fortune China 500 [108]
Fortune Chinese [108]
2019
2019 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Brands in the world
MillwardBrown, the authoritative research agency of WPP Group [109]
The year 2018
UNESCO [110]
The year 2018
Internet Society of China [111]
The year 2018
Ranked fifth in the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Brands in 2018
BrandZ [112]
The year 2018
Ranked first in China's Top 100 Brand Value list in 2018 [113]
China Brand Building Promotion Association [113]
The year 2017
2017年中国大陆创新企业百强榜单
Clarivate [114]
The year 2016
Top 500 global brands
World Brand Lab
In 2015, the international communication power of Chinese enterprises ranked third
Communication University of China, National Audio Media Center
The year 2015
China Internet Employer of the Year
Haul wire
The year 2014
Top 500 global brands
World Brand Lab
The year 2013
The 15th China Patent Gold Award
State Intellectual Property Office, World Intellectual Property Organization
The most influential enterprise of the 6th China Copyright Annual Conference
Copyright Association of China
Guangdong national famous brand
Guangdong Industrial Cooperation Association, Southern Newspaper Media Group, Southern TV Station
The year 2012
The 10th China Charity Award in 2012
Ministry of Civil Affairs
The year 2011
The 9th China Charity Award in 2011
Ministry of Civil Affairs
The year 2010
CRM Technology Innovation of the Year Award
Call Center and BPO industry information network
The year 2009
Shenzhen 2008 annual key software enterprise
Shenzhen Bureau of Science and Information
Best Industry Leader Award
Shanghai Financial Forum
Excellent network culture enterprise
Ministry of Culture
The 7th China Charity Award in 2009
Ministry of Civil Affairs
The year 2008
2007 Shenzhen Top 100 software enterprises
Shenzhen Software Industry Association
National cultural industry demonstration base
Ministry of Culture
Innovative enterprises in Guangdong Province
Guangdong Provincial People's Government
Best Business Model of 2007
Business media
Best company to work for in China
" wealth "Magazine
Most Growth Media Award
Southern Weekend
The most trusted payment platform by B2C merchants
China Online Retail Annual Conference
National cultural industry demonstration base
Ministry of Culture
The year 2007
Foreign investment in advanced technology enterprises
Shenzhen Bureau of Trade and Industry
Private Enterprise Innovation Award
Shenzhen General Chamber of Commerce
Enterprises with intellectual property advantages
Guangdong Intellectual Property Office
Shenzhen private leading backbone enterprises
Shenzhen Municipal People's Government
Shenzhen 2006 key software enterprise
Shenzhen Bureau of Science and Information
2006 Shenzhen Top 100 enterprises
Shenzhen Enterprise Federation, Shenzhen Business Daily
China's Top 10 Game developers in 2006
Game working committee
2006 China Top 10 Game operators
Game working committee
The year 2006
China game industry 2006 outstanding enterprise
China Software Industry Association game software branch
China Internet Conference Industry self-discipline Contribution Award, Public welfare Enterprise Award
China Internet industry self-regulatory contribution Award review committee
"China's Top 100 Most Valuable" in the 2005-2006 China Advertising Magazine
The Advertiser magazine
Top 100 most influential media organizations in China in 2005-2006
The Advertiser magazine
Enterprises with intellectual property advantages
Guangdong Intellectual Property Office
Advanced collective of technological innovation in information industry
Ministry of Information Industry
Shenzhen intellectual property advantage enterprises
Guangdong Intellectual Property Office
List of Top 100 software enterprises in Shenzhen in 2005
Shenzhen Software Industry Association
Shenzhen 2005 annual key software enterprise
Shenzhen Intellectual Property Office
2004-2005 Shenzhen civilized unit title
Shenzhen Municipal People's Government
2005 "Shenzhen Most Talent Growth value Enterprise"
Shenzhen Talent Exchange Center, Shenzhen Enterprise Evaluation Association
The year 2005
2005 China Game Industry Golden Finger Award
China Software Industry Association game software branch
In 2005, the largest software industry in China top 100 enterprises
Ministry of information Industry
China game industry 2005 outstanding enterprise
China Software Industry Association game software branch
Key software enterprises within the national planning layout
Ministry of Information Industry/Ministry of Commerce, Development and Reform Commission
Public charity enterprise
China Children's Charity Day Organizing Committee, China Children and Youth Foundation
The third batch of Guangdong 100 private enterprises with intellectual property advantages
Guangdong Intellectual Property Office
Shenzhen cultural industry advanced unit
Shenzhen cultural system reform and cultural city work leading group
2005 China University Students Best Employer Popularity Award
Chinahr.com, Economic Observer, China Foundation Stone, Sina.com
2004-2005 Guangdong Best Customer Service Center Award
Guangdong Provincial Information Association Customer Service professional Committee, Southern Metropolis Daily
In 2005, the largest software industry in China top 100 enterprises
Ministry of information Industry
2004 Shenzhen Software Top 100 enterprises
Shenzhen Software Industry Association
Shenzhen 2004 intellectual property work advanced unit
Shenzhen Intellectual Property Office
The year 2004
China's most future leadership technology enterprises
China High-tech Enterprise magazine
The year 2003
2003 Shenzhen key software enterprise
Shenzhen Science and Technology Bureau
2003 Shenzhen Top 50 private enterprises
Shenzhen Municipal People's Government
2003 Shenzhen software enterprise Top 100
Shenzhen Software Industry Association
Top 100 private enterprises in 2003
State Administration of Taxation
The year 2002
2002 Shenzhen key software enterprise
Shenzhen Science and Technology Bureau
2023
2023 Forbes Global 2000 list, ranked 33rd.
Forbes [239]
The 45th place on the Fortune China 500 list in 2023
wealth [245]
147th in the Fortune Global 500 in 2023
wealth [246]
Top 10 "China ESG Model" enterprises.
China Media Group [259]
(Above references: [115-121] )

Latest news

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On August 7, 2020, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning US residents from doing any business with the overseas version of TikTok, the overseas version of WeChat and their parent companies for 45 days. Tencent plunged 10 per cent as a result, wiping more than HK $500bn off its market value. [124]
In January 2021, the State Administration of Market Regulation, based on reports, launched an investigation into Tencent Holdings Limited (hereinafter referred to as Tencent) 's acquisition of equity in China Music Group in July 2016 on suspicion of illegal operator concentration. [131]
In July 2021, Tencent's acquisition of 58.com equity case, Tencent's acquisition of Xiaohongshu equity case, Tencent's acquisition of Sogou equity case, Tencent's acquisition of Cheetah Mobile equity case, and Tencent's acquisition of Mogujie equity case violated Article 21 of the anti-monopoly Law, constituting illegal implementation of business concentration, and the State Administration for Market Regulation made an administrative penalty decision in accordance with Articles 48 and 49 of the Anti-Monopoly Law. The companies involved were fined 500,000 yuan each. [127]
July 10, 2021 Xinhua News Agency Beijing Latest news, January 4, 2021, the State Administration of Market regulation on Tencent Holdings Limited to declare Huya Company and Douyu International Holdings Limited merger, according to law for the concentration of operators anti-monopoly review. In accordance with Article 28 of the Anti-Monopoly Law and Article 35 of the Interim Provisions on the Review of the Concentration of Business Operators, the State Administration for Market Supervision decided to prohibit such concentration of business operators in accordance with the law. [128]
In July 2021, the State Administration of Market Regulation ordered Tencent Holdings Limited to cancel the exclusive copyright of online music and other penalties. Tencent and its affiliates are ordered to take measures to restore market competition, such as removing exclusive music copyright within 30 days, stopping the payment of copyright fees such as high advance payments, and not requiring upstream copyright parties to give them better conditions than their competitors without legitimate reasons. Tencent will report the performance of its obligations to the General Administration of Market Regulation every year for three years, and the General Administration of Market Regulation will strictly supervise its implementation according to law. [132]
In August 2021, Tencent responded to the Beijing Haidian District People's Procuratorate: We have learned of the report of the Beijing Haidian District People's Procuratorate on the announcement of wechat product "youth mode", and we will carefully self-check the function of wechat youth mode, humbly accept user suggestions and sincerely respond to civil public interest litigation. We attach great importance to the healthy growth of young people, and wechat will actively assume the social responsibility of protecting and guiding young people. [136]
On August 31, 2021, Tencent issued a statement on giving up the exclusive license rights of music copyright, saying that as of August 23, 2021, it had sent relevant letters to all upstream copyright parties that had reached exclusive agreements, informing them that they needed to terminate the contract on schedule, and most of the exclusive agreements had been terminated on schedule. On August 23, 2021, the upstream copyright party that fails to terminate the contract on time will be sent the "Statement on Renunciation of Exclusive License Rights for Music copyright", which clearly renounced the right of exclusive license for music copyright with the relevant upstream copyright party, and informed that the relevant upstream copyright party can authorize other operators on its own. [138]
On September 8, 2021, the relevant person in charge of the Central Publicity Department and the National Press and Publication Administration, together with the Central Cyberspace Administration, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and other departments, held an interview with Tencent and other key online game enterprises and game account rental and sales platforms and game live streaming platforms. [139]
On November 10, 2021, Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) released its financial report for the third quarter of fiscal year 2021, with a revenue of 142.37 billion yuan, an increase of 13% year-on-year, less than the market expectation of 145.41 billion yuan; Net profit of 39.51 billion yuan, a slight increase of 3% year-on-year, down 7% quarter-on-quarter, beating market expectations of 32.6 billion yuan. [148]
According to the official news of Tiktok, on November 11, 2021, Tiktok received an application from Tencent's creative service platform, hoping to access the Tiktok open platform. Tencent said that a large number of second-generation short videos of popular film and television exclusive copyright works across the network can be sent to Tiktok to supplement the content ecology of Tiktok. [149]
In November 2021, Tencent Video canceled the compulsory automatic renewal, and users can choose whether to renew automatically; Before automatic renewal, users will be informed 3-5 days in advance through mobile phone SMS, in-station messages, etc. No longer use of "membership free advertising" and other absolute promotional terms . [150]
On December 14, 2021, the App showed that Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., LTD., Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., LTD., and Chengdu Rongsi Technology Co., LTD., Luo Mou unfair competition dispute civil judgment was announced.
According to the documents, Tencent said that the defendant Rongsi company through "group staring" and "hang-up software" and other software, illegal login, monitoring, extract and storage, use of QQ group members and chat information, data, Luo Mou to help Rongsi company promote and sell the software involved in the case, the two defendants' behavior constitutes unfair competition. Rongsi argues that it is not the developer of QQ robots (hang-up software), and that group staring is not chat software and does not constitute unfair competition. Luo argued that Rongsi company only rented some advertising space on its website, and it did not participate in other business activities of Rongsi company.
The court held that Rongsi Company is the main body of research and development and operation of the group tracking software, and it obstructs and destroys the normal operation of Tencent QQ software through technical means and damages the legitimate rights and interests of the plaintiff; Luo Mou to Rongsi company implementation of unfair competition provided help, the two defendants have constituted unfair competition. The final judgment was that Rongsi company compensated Tencent for the economic loss of 500,000 yuan; The defendant Luo Mou compensated Tencent for the economic loss of 20,000 yuan. [153]
In December 2021, Tencent pushed a notice to developers about the problem of self-checking "scanning code ordering mandatory attention to public number". The notice pointed out that the platform reminds developers to self-check whether there is a problem of "scanning code ordering mandatory attention to public number", and timely rectification, to provide users with a good ordering experience. The platform will start to check such problems on January 17, 2022, and the illegal public accounts will be limited to open the ability of the two-dimensional code. [156]
Tencent has announced that the enterprise QQ + marketing QQ comprehensive upgrade. Tencent enterprise point team decided: 1, October 28, 2021 20:00:00: Enterprise QQ and marketing QQ completely stop renewal; 2, January 31, 2022 23:59:59: Enterprise QQ and marketing QQ service and operation will be completely stopped, then you will not be able to log in. [160]
On March 21, 2022, China Eastern Airlines Flight MU5735 was on a Kunming-Guangzhou mission when it lost contact and crashed over Wuzhou, Guangxi Province. After the accident, netizens paid close attention to the rescue progress and the investigation into the cause of the accident. However, some netizens take this opportunity to spread online rumors, causing bad effects. Tencent and other website platforms, using the crash of the Eastern Airlines passenger plane to spread rumors, spread conspiracy theories, ridicule disaster and other illegal information and accounts will be dealt with quickly and strictly. [183]
In February 2023, according to China Securities News, Tencent also has relevant technical reserves in ChatGPT, including AI large models, machine learning algorithms, and NLP. It is reported that Tencent mixed Yuan AI large model team launched a trillion-level Chinese NLP pre-training model HunYuan-NLP-1T, which has landed in Tencent advertising, search, dialogue and other internal products and through Tencent cloud service external customers. [223]
On March 2, 2023, Tencent issued the DEI Commitment Letter, which clarified the future workplace culture and the company's daily operations to further create a work environment where employees feel respected, supported and inspired. Collection ('m, Equity and Inclusion), namely, Diversity, equality and harmony. Tencent said it will regularly review the implementation of DEI to ensure progress. [227]
In December 2023, Tencent NOW Live announced that due to business adjustments, NOW Live will cease operations at 11:00 on December 26, 2023. Tencent NOW Live is Tencent's live + short video + friends social platform, launched in 2016, has been in operation for more than 7 years. [258]
On December 11, 2023, the Buyer Shanghai Hongwen, Shanghai Reading and Shanghai Reading entered into an asset transfer agreement with the seller Tencent Computer, Tencent Animation, Tencent Technology, Tencent Shanghai, Tencent, Tencent Pictures and Guangxi Tencent, pursuant to which the Buyer conditionally agreed to the acquisition and the Seller conditionally agreed to sell the assets for a consideration of RMB600 million (subject to a reduction). Assets include APP platform assets, animation projects, film and television projects, and 90% equity of Micorange. [260]
On March 20, 2024, Tencent Holdings released the annual financial report for 2023, which showed that the revenue in the fourth quarter of 2023 was 155.2 billion yuan, and the estimated revenue was 157.42 billion yuan, an increase of 7%. Adjusted net profit was Rmb42.7 billion, compared with a forecast of Rmb41.97 billion. In the fourth quarter, online advertising revenue was 29.79 billion yuan, and game revenue in the international market was 13.9 billion yuan. In 2023, Tencent Holdings revenue 609 billion yuan, an increase of 10%; NON-IFRS net profit for the year was 157.69 billion yuan, an increase of 36% year-on-year. [264]
On March 20, 2024, Liu Chiping, president of Tencent, said at the earnings media communication meeting that this year, we can look forward to Tencent launching more small programs and even independent apps based on the mixed component model. [266]

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December 30, 2021, Tencent Charity Foundation Announced the first donation of 20 million yuan, together with the Shaanxi Charity Association to help Xi 'an fight the epidemic [161] .
On February 17, 2022, Tencent, through its Tencent Foundation, provided Hong Kong with the initial public welfare fund of HK $10 million to help the local fight against the epidemic. [172]
On February 18, 2022, after Tencent announced that it would donate the first 10 million Hong Kong dollars to the epidemic prevention needs of young children and the elderly, Tencent decided to add an additional 40 million Hong Kong dollars through its Tencent Foundation, totaling 50 million Hong Kong dollars in support of the epidemic response. [172]
On December 19, 2023, Tencent Charity Foundation announced a donation of 20 million yuan, which will be used to respond to the emergency rescue of the affected areas in Gansu and Qinghai, the transitional placement of warm winter supplies, and the work of post-disaster recovery and reconstruction instead of relief. [261]

Enterprise event

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In November 2018, Xu Jingqing, the chief composer of the 86th version of the TV series Journey to the West, sued Beijing Maitian Picture Culture Media Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Tencent Computer System Co., Ltd. to the court on the grounds of infringement of the right of authorship of the work and the right of information network transmission of the work. Xu Jingqing said that the film "Journey to the West" without permission in the soundtrack to use his own music works "Cloud Gong Yin" and "daughter love", requested the court to order the other party to stop the infringement, delete the removal of the infringing film "Journey to the West", apologize, compensation for economic losses and reasonable expenses total 652,500 yuan. [122] In December 2019, the court confirmed that the compensation amount of 45.24 million yuan for the infringement of the reproduction right and information network transmission right of the six game maps of the "Crossfire" game was 45.24 million yuan. [123]
On December 31, 2021, the State Administration of Market Regulation made an administrative penalty decision on the case of illegal operator concentration in which Tencent Holdings Co., Ltd. failed to report the establishment of a joint venture in accordance with the law, and fined Tencent 500,000 yuan. [162]
On January 25, 2022, according to the wechat public account of the anti-fraud Investigation Department of Tencent Group, "Sunshine Tencent" news, throughout 2021, the Tencent anti-fraud Investigation Department found and investigated more than 50 cases of violating the "Tencent high-voltage line", nearly 70 people were dismissed for violating the "Tencent high-voltage line", and more than 10 people were transferred to the public security organs for suspected crimes. And 16 typical cases involving commercial bribery, embezzlement and other acts were reported. [165]
On February 14, 2022, according to Empire magazine, Fight Club director David Fincher responded to the "new ending" version of the Chinese mainland video platform. Earlier, Tencent Video online "Fight Club" modified the original movie ending, and caused widespread discussion at home and abroad. [168]
On March 5, 2022 local time, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov issued a tweet asking 12 manufacturers, including Tencent, to ban the sale of games to Russia, but Tencent did not respond. As early as 2014, reports showed that the Russian market accounted for $1.12 billion. [174]
On March 31, 2022, the State Administration of Market Regulation issued the "Decision on Administrative Punishment in the case of Tencent Holdings Limited's acquisition of DeepBlue Alpha Inc.", and the State Administration of Market Regulation decided to give Tencent an administrative penalty of 500,000 yuan. [201]
On April 13, 2022, Tencent online Game Accelerator announced that Tencent online game accelerator will be upgraded to "Tencent game Butler" on May 31, 2022, and gradually stop the old service, and the upgraded products only support the acceleration of national service games, while opening the refund channel. [185]
On May 18, 2022, the State Administration of Market Regulation issued the "Decision on Administrative Punishment for Tencent Holdings Co., Ltd. to acquire the equity of Beijing Northern Hemisphere International Cultural Communication Co., LTD.". The General Administration of Market Regulation imposed a fine of 500,000 yuan on Tencent. [202]
On July 7, 2022, according to reports, the EU antitrust regulator wants to investigate a number of large tech companies such as Tencent due to the Open Media Alliance's (AOM) video licensing policy. [200]
On October 26, 2022, the Xi 'an Intermediate People's Court made a first-instance judgment on the Yunnan Worm Valley case. The court held that a large number of users on the platform of Tiktok had infringed on the works involved, and although Tiktok had taken measures to reduce the number of infringing works, the infringement had not been effectively contained. Therefore, Tiktok is a help infringement, and effective measures should be taken immediately to delete, filter and intercept related videos, and compensate Tencent for economic losses and reasonable expenses of more than 32.4 million yuan. [213]
In September 2023, in response to the existence of a large amount of illegal information such as pornography in the "Small World" section of Tencent's QQ platform, endangering the physical and mental health of minors, the National Cyberspace Administration guided the Guangdong Provincial Cyberspace Administration to interview the relevant person in charge of Tencent according to law, and imposed administrative penalties in accordance with Article 127 of the "Protection of Minors". Ordered to suspend the information update of the "Small World" section for 30 days, confiscated illegal income and fined 1 million yuan. [251] After the network information department made an administrative punishment decision on the QQ Small world function section, Tencent QQ responded by saying: sincerely accept, resolutely implement, and comprehensively carry out the rectification work of QQ Small World and other function sections. [252]
On March 29, 2024, the patent infringement case of Chengdu Tiankey Technology Co., Ltd. v. Tencent was held in the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court. It is reported that the court did not pass a sentence in court, but announced the trial was postponed after the two sides exchanged evidence. [269]

Qinglang network

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On April 8, 2022, Tencent issued the Announcement on Severely Cracking down on the Release of Illegal Information related to the Shanghai Epidemic.
The platform reminds the majority of users to uphold an objective and rational attitude when releasing relevant information on the platform, strictly abide by laws and regulations and platform operation norms, use authoritative channels to release information, cross-verify multiple sources, and avoid the spread of unverified false information.
Tencent advocates the establishment of a healthy and orderly cyberspace, and will actively fulfill its corporate responsibility to severely crack down on harmful information, comments and statements that use the Shanghai epidemic to spread rumors, create antagonism and panic, play up contradictions and conflicts, and incite regional discrimination, hatred and personal attacks. Once found and verified, accounts that publish harmful information will be dealt with strictly and severely according to laws and regulations. And report clues of illegal and criminal activities to relevant departments. [186]

Tencent dispels rumours

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On October 24, 2022, in response to market rumors that "China Mobile may take a stake in Tencent", Tencent Holdings replied to a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily that "the news is untrue". [212]