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外文翻译 原文 Frontier of the Electronic Commerce MaterialSource: New York: ddison-Wesley, 2004 Author: R. Kalatota and A. B. Whinston 1.E-commerce: decisive factor for china’s future Economic Heft Development of internet and E-commerce is not only an advanced technology that Chinese enterprises can use in internal reform; it also can promote the nation’s economic restructuring, becoming a decisive factor behind China’s economic competitiveness in the 21st century. The remark was made by famous Chinese economist Pan Yunhe at the “The International Symposium on Government and E-commerce Development” held recently in Ningbo, this port city of the east China’s Zhejiang Province. Chinese and overseas experts and entrepreneurs attending this symposium agreed that as a developing country, China is experiencing economic restructuring. It can make full use of E-commerce to improve people’s living standard and promote efficiency of information technology and resources arrangement. Since China introduced E-commerce in 1993, the sector has witnessed remarkable development. In 1996, China had 100,000 Internet users; the figure skyrocketed to 20 million in 2000, ranking third-highest in the world. Pan , also an academician of the China Academy of Engineering and president of the prestigious Zhejiang University, said that the increasing population of internet users and China’s improved economic environment will create a large potential market and bright future for China’s E-commerce development. According to Pan, the majority of the Internet users in China are young, and the next generation will be more familiar with Internet and computer use. They are going to play a pillar role in developing E-commerce. By the end of last year, the country had over 100,000 Chinese domain names and 30,000 websites, including 1,200 websites for consumption. Statistics show that the Commodity Fair at China International E-commerce Network, which opened in 1998, received nearly