What is e-commerce? Briefly describe the characteristics of e-commerce? What's the difference between traditional commerce and e-commerce?

Electronic Commerce, English is electronic 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 commercial and trade activities around the world under the open network environment of the Internet, and realize online shopping of consumers, online trading between merchants and online electronic payment, as well as various business activities, trading activities, financial activities and related comprehensive service activities.