Copy to China

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Copy to China (C2C or C to C) refers to when a company in China copies the business model of a successful foreign company, especially web and other IT companies. Such companies have often been very successful, out-competing the foreign company on the Chinese market. The degree of copying varies, from simply offering a directly competing service to closely mimicking the look and feel and name as pronounced in Chinese. It is a common topic of discussion how the Chinese IT industry can move beyond simple copying and localization into more innovation.[1][2][3][4]

List of C2C companies

These companies are famous examples of the Copy to China model. Many of them have evolved to more than a simple clone.

Chinese company Similar to Notes
Renren,[5] Kaixin001[6] Facebook
Youku, Tudou[6] YouTube
Baidu Baike, Hudong[7][8][9] Wikipedia Wikipedia is non-profit, but Baidu Baike and Hudong are commercial, and there is a dispute over copyrights between Baidu Baike and Wikipedia.[10]
Baidu Space[11] MySpace
Fanfou, Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo Twitter
Diandian[12] Tumblr
Zhihu[13] Quora
Acfun, Bilibili Niconico
Jianshu, 15yan Medium "Pixel level copy". Its creator is also a popular science site in China.
SegmentFault StackOverflow

See also

References

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