NEW DELHI: About two dozen Chinese employees of Alibaba are currently camping at Paytm’s office in Noida , working closely with some senior local executives to convert the Indian company’s marketplace into Alibaba’s ecommerce portal, two people familiar with the matter said.The Chinese executives are overseeing the integration of Alibaba-owned digital payment platform Alipay with Paytm’s ecommerce site, one of the people said.Alibaba, along with its affiliate Ant Financial, is the single largest shareholder of One97 Communications, the parent of Paytm, with a 40% stake in the company.Paytm denied any such move, saying that its working relationship with the Alibaba group sees teams from both sides visiting each other's offices regularly.“This allows for healthy discussions on ways to enhance our products and services,” a spokesperson said in an emailed response to ET’s queries.Alibaba said it was natural for the company to work closely with partner Paytm, even as its spokesperson dismissed the integration news as “market rumours”. ET reported in August that Alibaba had plans to debut its business-to-consumer site Tmall in India in six months and that it was considering options to morph the Paytm marketplace into Tmall.Late last month, the Alibaba Group's global managing director, K Guru Gowrappan, joined Paytm’s board.His inclusion on the board, which already had three nominees from the Chinese company, was seen by many as a precursor to migrate the Paytm marketplace into Alibaba own portal.At the time, Paytm cofounder Vijay Shekhar Sharma said Gowrappan would “guide” the Noida-based digital-wallet-to ecommerce company through “executing key strategic initiatives.”