In the past two years, the speed of rapid development of Electronic Commerce is beyond our imagination, and the speed of rapid popularization of it is more unbelievable. We absolutely have well-established grounds to believe that whether developed countries or developing countries, whether the education & scientific research departments or the media, will dive into the Electronic Commerce with unprecedented passion, and the global upsurge of the Electronic Commerce will surge forward wave upon wave.
    In the following years, the turnover of the Electronic Commerce will increase rapidly at a speed of several times or several ten times. In 1997, the global turnover of the Electronic Commerce was only 2.6 billion dollars, but to the year of 1998 reached 43 billion dollars, and to the year of 2000 will reach 300 billion dollars. Mr. Yu Youcheng, advanced vice-president of Intel Corporation, forecasts that to 2002 the turnover of the Electronic Commerce will reach 900 billion dollars. The World Currency Fund Organization forecast that the global turnover of the Electronic Commerce will reach 1500 billion dollars to 2003. This surprisingly rapidly developing speed and the interesting developing future, must conduce to the competitions from different country governments and the global business community to occupy the space of the market and to get the seat of the commercial activities without sparing any pains and efforts.
     The massive innovative movement will bring the huge transformation to the increasing mode of the economy. In the whole course of supplying & demanding chain and trading chain, the Electronic Commerce carries out the bi-directional information exchange, the transmission, the application and the integration from raw materials stocking and accommodation to the service of consumers, and it achieves the whole commercial activities by efficient rapid information communion and direct application. Therefore, it is an ultimate revolution in the field of the commerce, as well as a high-powered innovation movement in the world, and it also is the developing trend of future trade mode, is a brand-new commercial pattern, at the same time, it will be the main stream commerce and the trade form in the 21st century. The Electronic Commerce not only brings us the opportunity of the commerce, the commercial profit, but also more primarily brings the profoundly revolution on the commercial concept, the huge transform to the increasing mode of the economy, and the austere challenge to the future development of the economy. To that, we must have enough cognitions and profound comprehensions.
     The world will become a brand-new, digital, enormous and virtual market. If someone asks how large the Electronic Commerce market is or how long its boundary is, our answer is: the market could be as large as your wish; the boundary could be as long as your need. The Electronic Commerce is an enormous and virtual market with no boundary. It is forecasted that there will be hundreds billions even thousand billions dollars’ latent market there in the several years of the future. The huge investment of the basic construction of the Electronic Commerce provides vast commodity market for the development of electronic technology. This will not only attract the interest of information industry magnates, but also bring huge opportunities of the development. The massive market demand will create the large advance to social productivity inevitably, and at the same time, it will bring the development of culture, the abundance of life, the exertion of creativity, the pursuing to harmoniousness of human and nature, and so on.
    Our country’s Electronic Commerce started later but has a good development situation. If we can take good advantage of the stratagem of “tracking and catching up”, if we have a set of development policy which is both advanced and according with the basic situation of our country, if we could start up the corporations as the main forces of the Electronic Commerce rapidly, we could gradually reduce the distance with the advanced countries through increasing the propaganda strength that these corporations deal with on-line, and transforming the conventional commercial idea,.