How did e-commerce come into being and develop?

1, the emergence of e-commerce is the inevitable result of the following conditions * * *

① The wide application of computers

The computer's operation speed is getting faster and faster, the processing capacity is getting stronger and stronger, the price is getting lower and lower, and the application is getting wider and wider, which provides the foundation for the application of e-commerce.

② The popularity and maturity of the network.

Internet has gradually become the medium of global communication and transaction, and the number of Internet users in the world has increased exponentially.

③ Popularization and application of credit cards.

Credit card has become an important means of people's consumption and payment because of its convenience, quickness and safety, and thus a perfect global credit card computer network payment and settlement system has been formed, which makes it possible to travel around the world with one card, and also provides an important means for online payment in e-commerce.

(4) Establish a secure transaction agreement.

1997 On May 3 1, the secure electronic transaction protocol jointly designated by VISA of the United States and mastercard international was released, which was recognized and supported by most manufacturers.

⑤ Government support and promotion.

Since 1997, the European Union issued the European Electronic Commerce Agreement, and the United States subsequently issued the Global Electronic Commerce Outline, electronic commerce has attracted the attention of governments all over the world, and many governments have begun to try "online procurement".

2, the development of electronic commerce

① Initial stage

1990- 1993, the era of electronic data exchange, has become the initial stage of e-commerce in China.

② Embryonic stage

1993- 1997, the government took the lead in organizing the "three gold projects" stage, which laid a solid foundation for the development of e-commerce. 1996 jinqiao network and internet officially opened. During the period of 1997, the Information Office organized relevant departments to draft the China Informatization Plan, and advertisers began to use online advertisements. China Commodity Ordering System (CGOS) has also been put into operation.

③ development period

1March 1998, the first online transaction in China was successful. On June 5438+ 10 of that year, the State Economic and Trade Commission and the Ministry of Information Industry jointly announced the launch of the "Golden Trade Project" with e-commerce as the main content, which was a large-scale pilot project to promote network application and develop e-commerce in the field of economic and trade circulation.

1999, generalized e-commerce such as government online, enterprise online, e-government (government online project), online tax payment, online education (online university of Hunan University and Zhejiang University), and remote diagnosis (Beijing and Shanghai hospitals) started, and have been piloted and entered the actual trial stage.

④ stable period

From 2000 to 2009, e-commerce gradually took traditional industry B2B as the main body, which indicated that e-commerce entered a stable period of sustainable development.

⑤ maturity

The vigorous development of 3G has promoted the formation of the whole network e-commerce V5 era, and e-commerce has been highly valued by the national high-level and promoted to the national strategic level.

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Employment prospect of e-commerce major

As the direction of industry transformation and development, e-commerce takes the cultural communication industry as an example. After the regulatory authorities cleaned up and rectified the trading places in the industry, many trading platforms began to build their own e-commerce platforms to promote cultural and artistic transactions through innovative projects. While improving the market and its own platform, we should comply with national supervision and serve the development of the real economy.

Through e-commerce mode, we can reduce transaction costs, increase the transparency of market information, and broaden and open up trading channels.

In the current favorable situation of e-commerce and the sharp shortage of talents, students majoring in e-commerce should make a good connection with society, find out the future employment direction and make clear their learning goals. From now on, through their own efforts to learn and practice knowledge and skills in the workplace, greatly improve their employability and competitiveness, and achieve better and faster employment.

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