What industry type does e-commerce belong to?

E-commerce belongs to service industry.

E-commerce, referred to as e-commerce, refers to trading activities and related service activities in the form of electronic transactions on the Internet, intranet and value-added network, which makes all aspects of traditional business activities electronic and networked.

E-commerce includes electronic currency exchange, supply chain management, electronic trading market, online marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data exchange, inventory management and automatic data collection system. In this process, the information technologies used include: Internet, extranet, e-mail, database, electronic directory and mobile phone.

Standardization trend:

The e-commerce market will be further improved and standardized. With the improvement of the market and the introduction of relevant laws, suppliers of goods and services will be more standardized and self-disciplined in the aspects of pre-sale quality assurance, promotion during sale and after-sales service delivery. Not only fake and shoddy goods, such as Taobao and Paipai, which are ubiquitous at present, the living space in the future is getting smaller and smaller.

Moreover, with the deterioration of the global environment and the gradual change of social values, consumers' awareness of environmental protection and low carbon will gradually emerge, which will further affect the field of e-commerce and integrate environmental protection and other concepts into the industry.

Refer to the above? Baidu encyclopedia-e-commerce