Overall, there is no clear winner. Alibaba is a well-diversified e-commerce business with future growth opportunities in multiple industries in China and overseas. On the other hand, Baidu is primarily focused in China, but still has enormous potential if it can pull off its huge bets in AI Cloud and autonomous driving.

Alibaba Group (BABA) stock price has done well, helped by the recent easing of regulations and the recently announced stimulus package by the government and the central bank. It rose to a high of $117.

China's finance minister laid out a plan to boost the country's faltering economy, but stopped short of sharing a concrete spending target.

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