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Unit 4 Cyberspace  Y Inc. Chief Executive Officer Victor Koo says hes tired of being asked whether his company, Chinas biggest online-video provider, is the nations version of YouTube or Hulu. Its both and better, he says. Koo is among dot-com executives gathering in Beijing today and tomorrow to sell the idea that Chinese online services from Youku to Tencent Holdingss QQ are catching up to the world and western companies will soon turn to China for innovation. Their edge in detecting trends: an Internet population of 420 million, more than the number of people in the US and Germany. The Internets center of gravity is shifting toward China, said Duncan Clark, chairman of BDA China in Beijing, a technology consultant. China has almost double the number of US Internet subscribers. That concentration matters. Some investors may already be ahead of the curve. Tencent and Baidu are larger than EBay Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. by market value. Alibaba Group Holdings A unit is also among the 10 biggest Internet companies globally by market capitalization. Tencent expanded its QQ online-chat software to offer additional features that appeal to youths, according to an Internet analyst. QQ controlled 77 percent of Chinas instant-messaging market as of December, compared with 4.2 percent for Microsofts MSN, according to researcher Analysis International. T, Chinas biggest online-shopping site, overtook San Jose, California-based EBay within three years of its founding in 2003 by waiving commissions from transactions between its users. The approach by Taobao appealed more to Chinas cost-conscious Internet users, according to James Hawkins, managing director at DGM Asia, which buys advertising from Internet companies in China. 中国最大的在线视频网站优酷网首席执行官古永锵表示，他对于经常被问及他的公司是否是中国版的YouTube或者Hulu感到十分厌烦。他说，优酷网是它们两者的结合，并且更优秀。 今明两天，古永锵将与众多互联网公司高管齐聚北京，推广这样一种理念，即像优酷和腾讯QQ这样的中国互联网服务正在逐渐赶上世界的步伐，西方企业很快将来到中国寻求技术创新。它们在发现流行趋势方面的优势是：中国拥有4.2亿网民，比美国和德国的人口总和都要多。 博达克咨询有限公司董事长邓肯·克拉克说：“互联网的中心正在逐渐向中国转移。中国的网民数量几乎是美