Photo Gallery China's Tech Boom
Liu Chengcheng started a company called 36Kr, which now operates as something of a one-stop shop for China's start-ups as well as being an important networking hub. Here, a band plays at 36Kr's recent new year's party.
A man sitting at a laptop at a mall in the Zhongguancun district of Beijing. The 1.3 billion Chinese, 84 percent of whom have cell phones and half of whom have mobile Internet access, are among the most active users of e-commerce, social networks and online gaming. It is only a matter of time before they close the gap in the tech industry.
Tencent Chairman and CEO Pony Ma. His company is the parent of WeChat, the massively successful Chinese chat app.
Liu Chengcheng got his first big break when he met one of the co-founders of the search engine Baidu, Wang Xiao, at a university alumni party. Wang offered to invest 300,000 yuan into Liu's nascent tech blog.
Large Chinese tech companies, such as Lenovo, are becoming more active overseas. The PC manufacturer recently bought the Motorola brand from Google.
Alibaba is another Chinese company making waves internationally. It is currently developing a product to challenge PayPal in the online payment market.
