The important achievements by this Hong Kong-listed private enterprise in the field of instant messaging triggered a broad discussion inside the industry.

According to Tencent official data, on 19:52:58 of the March 5, 2010, the number of QQ concurrent users exceeded 100 million, and became one of the important tools for daily communication in China.
Tencent today produced specifically feature to celebrate for this, and interviewed dozens of Internet industry people to make interpretation of it.

Tencent released the first version in 1999, called OICQ, and later changed its name to QQ, and in rapid development in the following later to bypass the competitors to become the first major instant messaging software in China, and in 2004 was listed in Hong Kong.

Currently the largest shareholder of Tencent is media companies in Africa-Naspers, which owns 35.2% shares of Tencent.