E-commerce is a business activity based on network communication technology. Governments, scholars and business people in various countries have given many different definitions according to their respective positions and different angles and degrees of participation in e-commerce.
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Electronic commerce has become an important growth point of the national economy. In 20 14, the growth rate of total e-commerce transactions in China (28.64%) was 3.86 times that of GDP (7.4%); The average annual growth rate of online retail sales is 37.7 percentage points faster than the total retail sales of consumer goods. In 20 14, the income of internet industry closely related to e-commerce increased by 50%; The national information consumption scale reached 2.8 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of18%; Information consumption drives the development of related industries 1.2 trillion yuan, contributing about 0.8 percentage points to GDP.