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Income Before Income Taxes (Detail) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2014 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2014 CNY	Dec. 31, 2013 CNY	Dec. 31, 2012 CNY
Income Loss From Continuing Operations Before Income Taxes Minority Interest By Jurisdiction [Abstract]
PRC	$ 2,866,128us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesDomestic	17,783,174us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesDomestic	13,815,469us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesDomestic	12,537,331us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesDomestic
Non-PRC	(533,254)us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesForeign	(3,308,631)us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesForeign	(1,630,453)us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesForeign	(571,894)us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesForeign
Income before income taxes	$ 2,332,874us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesExtraordinaryItemsNoncontrollingInterest	14,474,543us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesExtraordinaryItemsNoncontrollingInterest	12,185,016us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesExtraordinaryItemsNoncontrollingInterest	11,965,437us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesExtraordinaryItemsNoncontrollingInterest

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The portion of earnings or loss from continuing operations before income taxes that is attributable to domestic operations.

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This element represents the income or loss from continuing operations attributable to the economic entity which may also be defined as revenue less expenses from ongoing operations, after income or loss from equity method investments, but before income taxes, extraordinary items, and noncontrolling interest.

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