1997165438+1On 6 and 7 October in Paris, the French capital, the International Chamber of Commerce held the World Business Agenda for e-commerce. Experts in business, information technology, law and other fields around the world and representatives of government departments have jointly discussed the concept of e-commerce. This is by far the most authoritative e-commerce concept:

E-commerce refers to the realization of the electronization of the whole trade activities. In the scope of coverage, it can be defined as: any form of commercial transactions conducted by both parties through electronic transactions rather than face-to-face communication or direct interviews; Technically, it can be defined as: E-commerce is a multi-technology aggregation, including data exchange (such as electronic data exchange, e-mail), data collection (shared database, bulletin board system) and automatic data capture (bar code).

The businesses covered by e-commerce include: information exchange, pre-sale and after-sale services (providing detailed information of products and services, technical guidelines for product use, and answering customers' opinions), sales, electronic payment (using electronic fund transfer, credit cards, electronic checks and electronic cash), transportation (including delivery management and transportation tracking of commodities, and actual delivery of products that can be transmitted electronically), and establishment of virtual enterprises (establishing a non-existent enterprise, Concentrate the authority of a group of independent small and medium-sized companies to provide much more products and services than any single company), companies and trading partners can jointly own and operate shared business methods.

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