The definition of electronic commerce

People no longer face to face, look at the real thing and trade by paper documents (including cash). But through the network, through the online dazzling commodity information, perfect logistics distribution system and convenient and safe fund settlement system for trading (buying and selling). E-commerce, English is e-commerce, abbreviated as EC. E-commerce usually refers to a new business operation mode in which buyers and sellers conduct various business activities without meeting each other in a wide range of business and trade activities around the world under the open network environment of the Internet, and realize online shopping for consumers, online trading for merchants and online electronic payment, as well as various business activities, trading activities, financial activities and related comprehensive service activities. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer Protocol) SET (Secure Electronic Transaction Protocol): First of all, e-commerce is divided into broad sense and narrow sense. E-commerce in a broad sense is defined as the use of various electronic tools to engage in business or activities. These tools range from basic telegrams, telephones, broadcasts, televisions and faxes to computers and computer networks to modern systems such as NII (National Information Infrastructure-Information Superhighway), GII (Global Information Infrastructure) and the Internet. Commercial activities are all activities based on the demand activities of pan-commodities (physical and non-physical, commodity and non-commodity production factors, etc.). ) to the reasonable and legal consumption of pan-commodities except the typical production process. In a narrow sense, e-commerce is defined as mainly using the Internet to engage in business or activities. E-commerce is the general name of people who master information technology and business rules, systematically use electronic tools and engage in various activities centered on commodity exchange with high efficiency and low cost in modern society with highly developed technology and economy. This analysis highlights the premise, center, focus, purpose and standard of e-commerce, and points out the level and effect it should achieve. It is a stricter definition of e-commerce and reflects the requirements of the times. It emphasizes the central position of people in the system from the perspective of system, organically links environment with people, people with tools, and people with labor objects, and defines e-commerce with system objectives and system components, thus making e-commerce productive.