Date:02/05/2009

The Internet service provider Tencent organized about 2,000 of its users in 16 Chinese cities to promote good manners and good habits to mark the one-year countdown to the opening of World Expo 2010 Shanghai.

In Shanghai, where the event will be between May 1, 2010 and October 31, 2010, Tencent users organized name-signing activities and promoted good manners for riding escalators and buses.

In Beijing's China Millennium Monument, Tencent users promoted the Expo's environment protection philosophy to tourists and passers-by.

In Nanjing's Purple Mountain, the Jiangsu provincial capital city's famous scenic spot, Tencent users formed small teams to pick up litter along the ways up and down the mountain. They also called on tourists to keep the place clean at a name-signing ceremony.

Tencent Inc (www.qq.com) is the only Internet service senior sponsor of World Expo 2010 and it operates and maintains the Expo Official Website. Tencent is China's largest Internet service provider and the Internet firm with the largest number of users in China. The company was founded in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, in 1998. It launched its instant messaging service platform in 1999, generally known as "QQ," which attracted most of its users. It went public as Tencent Holdings Limited (SEHK 700) in 2004.