Copy to China (C2C or C to C) refers to when a company in China copies the business model of a successful foreign company, especially web and other IT companies.
The degree of copying varies, from simply offering a directly competing service to closely mimicking the look and feel and name as pronounced in Chinese.
It is a common topic of discussion how the Chinese IT industry can move beyond simple copying and localization into more innovation.
[1][2][3][4] These companies are famous examples of the Copy to China model.
Many of them have evolved to more than a simple clone.