China's tech industry is like a whole other world compared the companies that dominate the States. Bobby Yip/Reuters The Great Firewall of China has blocked even the mightiest companies.

Go online in China and you’ll find an internet that looks very different than the one you’d see in most other countries. The mainstays of the Web — Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc. — are either unavailable or on the periphery, hindered in large part by a government that’s made censorship and surveillance the norm.

And the Western tech powers that aren’t internet-based have still struggled to grow in a country that tends to favor its own, and in a market where consumer habits often differ than those in the US.

Uber flamed out. Apple is sputtering. Netflix can't get started. Amazon is flailing. Google and YouTube aren't even there. The result: the rise of several tech companies that provide services similar to the biggest names elsewhere, but have leveraged China’s massive market to become giants on their own.

Despite their size, though, many of these titans aren’t well-known outside of their home country. So to help you get acquainted, here’s a few of China’s biggest tech powers, and their closest peers in the US.