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Despite the efforts devoted to the promotion of Social Networking Service (SNS) use in e-government for the past few years, empirical studies regarding this ongoing trend are still insufficient. In the local administration of China, a special collaboration between local governments and private Internet enterprises is happening: government services are imported into commercial SNS platforms known as WeChat and Weibo. This research conducts a case study of a Chinese municipality premised upon survey data (N = 605) collected in Chongqing. It examines the determinants of e-services adoption in four major local applications: two traditional government-led services \u201cGovernment website portal\u201d and \u201cGovernment official app\u201d (traditional government-led services), and two built-in government services on social networking applications \u201cWeibo Government official account\u201d \u201cWeChat Public Services\u201d. 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