Employee benefit	12 Months Ended
Employee benefit	Dec. 31, 2014
Employee benefit
Employee benefit	26. Employee benefit Full time employees of the Group in the PRC participate in a government mandated defined contribution plan, pursuant to which certain pension benefits, medical care, employee housing fund and other welfare benefits are provided to the employees. Chinese labor regulations require that the PRC subsidiaries and VIEs and VIEs’ subsidiaries of the Group make contributions to the government for these benefits based on certain percentages of the employees’ salaries, up to a maximum amount specified by the local government. The Group has no legal obligation for the benefits beyond the contributions made. The total amounts for such employee benefit expenses, which were expensed as incurred, were approximately RMB528,524, RMB618,052 and RMB903,494 for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively.

The entire disclosure for pension and other postretirement benefits.