NEW DELHI / BANGALORE: Scores of Indian entrepreneurs are making a beeline to startup hubs in Shanghai Beijing and Guangzhou to pick up tips in the art of scalability from their peers in the world's largest e-commerce market.Egged by their investors who are making connections between the Tiger and the Dragon, a number of Indian entrepreneurs have been visiting their Chinese counterparts and coming back amazed with their scale of operations."The Chinese are solving the same problem(s) as we are," said Albinder Dhindsa, chief executive of Grofers , who is back in Gurgaon after a week-long trip to meet entrepreneurs in Shanghai and Beijing."But if an Indian grocery e-tailer is doing an average of 6,000 deliveries a day, these startups are doing about 80,000 a day." Grofers, an on-demand grocery delivery startup, handles about 5,000 orders daily.Several investors and entrepreneurs see striking similarities in the startup ecosystems of India and China. "The Indian startup ecosystem is like the China of 2006 when valuations there were reasonable," said angel investor Rajan Anandan , who led a delegation of about 20 investors and entrepreneurs from India to Chinese firms such as Alibaba and Ctrip last year.And a key lesson to learn from the Dragon is "achieving a path to profitability despite scaling up", said Anandan, also Google 's vice president and managing director of Southeast Asia. Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital , which took part in a $35 million ( Rs 224 crore) funding round in Grofers, is also being instrumental in connecting its portfolio startups such as Oyo Rooms and Grofers to Chinese entrepreneurs. Other startup founders such as Housing CEO Rahul Yadav , Greendust CEO Hitendra Chaturvedi and executives from Myntra-Flipkart and Snapdeal, too, have undertaken similar voyages to the Middle Kingdom.Housing's Yadav just returned from China after meeting a few Chinese real estate entrepreneurs and Shanghai-based investors interested in India. Housing team was in China to understand the market and learn from Internet leaders in the online real estate listings space, which have built billion-dollar businesses.The main advantage for startups in China is the enormous size of the market. The country has an estimated 690 million people hooked on to the Internet and 520 million using smartphones. In India, about 310 million people were online last year, including 140 million through smartphones. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba alone boasts 350 million users, including 289 million on mobile.Consequently, China's e-commerce market is estimated to touch $300 billion this year, whereas India's was valued at $10 billion in 2014. The fact that the Chinese venture capital market is the biggest outside of the US, with investments totalling $16.2 billion last year compared to $2.1 billion in India, also helps.For employees of online payments startup Paytm , a visit to China is like taking an executive MBA course, said senior vice-president Amit Lakhotia , who has been to Beijing and Guangzhou multiple times. "Paytm employees have learnt to manage offline payments, escrow accounts and fraud detection mechanisms for payments through their counterparts in (Alibaba's payment gateway) Alipay."Some experts say the Dragon, too, could learn from India. "Startups focused on digital consumers have a lot to learn from China," said Sharad Sharma , angel investor and founder of product think-tank iSpirt. "But Indian software platform companies such as FreshDesk, OrangeScape and IT infrastructure players such as Druva and InMobi have a lot to teach Chinese startups about how to be global winners, not just local."