“On the other hand, QQ has also been adopted widely by Chinese companies as important online Customer Service tool. We also want to build an efficient platform providing all the information and tools one might need when living in China.”, said the team leader. We understand more and more foreigners come to China and our primary goal is to help them communicate with both Chinese and foreign friends, while growing their network in China. The team leader clarified the ideas behind the QQ International.

The target users are foreigners, who live in China not really the global audience

English-only information from third-parties including CityWeekend, ChinesePod, ICS etc which are popular news resources.

Featured Groups in different categories including Nightlife & Events, Business & Classifieds, Travel & Leisure, Personal & Dating, Language & Education, which actually reflects the life of foreigners in China.

But interesting enough, two major difference you can find on QQ International: It also supports the basic instant messaging features such as group chat etc, but many bundled features such as QQShow and so on are currently removed from QQ International. Feature-wise, QQ International is more like a light version of QQ Chinese version. QQ used to have some English versions, but unlike them which are simply QQ with English interface developed by the same dev team, QQ International is now a separate product and developed by a team based in Shanghai. Tencent does seriously spends effort on QQ International 2009 comes to the end, and the answer is finally reveal till we walked into Tencent’s Shanghai office and chatted with the QQ International team.

Tencent quietely launched its QQ International version back in January this year when we threw the question: Will QQ be seriously looking into the global market in 2009? The answer seems an obviously yes, as QQ International basically is the first English version officially launched and promoted as a Tencent product.

Qq international english version