most innovative comany in China?

In my opinion, there are quite a few out there.
first of all, the MOST innovative company so far in China in the comsumer market is QQ(TenCents). it has not only changed the way netizens communicate with each other. it also inflluenced businesses that how they can engage and better communicate with their customers. QQ is the AIM, Skype(no IDD), & Meebo combined...

if we zoom in a little bit and look at how things are working now on the Chinese Internet. Many popular web 2.0 sites are 'copy-cats' of products/services from the valley. however, the innovation

can be seen a lot from their name of the company and the localization of it.
the Chinese Facebook:
xiaonei.com the name xiao - school/univeristy/college; nei-within/internal/inside
just like facebook itself suggest its use for students. it is actually their first bowling pin to get people on to the system, especially college students. they have limited years on campus. Once they graduate, they started working and traveling. Though founded after facebook, their feature release schedule seemed they have put lots of thoughts over it. it also developed a chat client for the users and just recently the web-based chat was released, too.

hainei.com - founder of xiaonei just started this. it seemed to be a more open network to the general public where everyone and anyone get on it. the features avaiable is a lot like what facebook it is today rather than it was one year ago. the name is nicely selected. "hai nei cun zhi ji, tian ya ruo bi lin" Tianya has already become a very popular BBS/Forum online for many people. the corresponding hainei, a social network really give people some thoughts on what's the chinese way of social networking.

the Chinese twitter:
Jiwai.de - i blogged about this one on my personal blog on blogger.com before when i first found it. i was striken by the name... it is really funny and chinese. just like twitter... jiwai has both sound and actions suggested. Chinese people can really relate to.

fanfou.com - very chinese... when people meet one another, they greet by asking whether you have eaten. if you have such company name in the western culture, i guess the organization will have a huge bill on food. fanfou - eaten or not

zuosa.com - bascially asking you what you are doing. if you listen carefully on the MRT/subway, bus or any other form of public transportation. if you overhear some people talking on the phone, they would very often get "what are you doing/going to do?" - "zuo sa?"

another site i used almost EVERYDAY is www.iciba.com. it's under Kingsoft. Kingsoft not only develop anti-virus software, but also many other software and applications. the web-based dictinary has both E-C, C-E, E-E, examples and related stuff. It also provides some social networking features so that you can connect to the english learners with in the community.

there are also some digg-like websites, techcrunch-like websites. I myself have not personally invested much time on it and will definitely pay more attention to more cool stuff.

my friend is working on a social networking platform. The company is named very86. if you know very cola (fei chang ke le), very means Fei Chang. 86 is the country code of China. All the sites are currently created for different cities - Very[CityName], like verybeijing, verytianjin, veryshijiazhuang.

Oh yes!

Definitely not to forget the Chinese 'Google' - Baidu...