"QQ and WeChat are two big social networking systems with different characters ... They are like the cities of Beijing and Shanghai. It is not right to say that one is developing better than the other, and it is not realistic to abandon whichever is less developed ... and there is no question of replacing one with the other."

Ma Huateng, deputy to the National People's Congress and CEO of Internet company Tencent Holdings, as quoted by financial news website caijing.com.cn Monday.