Mr. Donald Yu (CEO) and co-founder Mr. Alex Yan (COO) founded Tuniu.com in October 2006. Prior to this, Mr. Yu worked as the CTO for a well-known childcare website and grew the business as the industry leader. Mr. Yu also worked as the Director of Technology of Blog China, taking charge of product and technology development. Due to the rise of Web 2.0 and under the leadership of Mr. Yu, Blog China's global ranking grew to about top 100 from 2,000, raising a total of over 10 million US dollars from venture capital.