Electronic transaction is the electronization and networking of all links in traditional business activities. E-commerce includes electronic currency exchange, supply chain management, electronic trading market, online marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), 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.

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1. E-commerce redefines the traditional circulation mode, reduces intermediate links, and makes direct transactions between producers and consumers possible, thus changing the whole social and economic operation mode to some extent.

2. On the one hand, e-commerce breaks down the barriers of time and space, on the other hand, it provides abundant information resources, which provides more possibilities for the reorganization of various socio-economic factors, thus affecting the economic layout and structure of society.

3.= Through the Internet, businesses can directly communicate, negotiate and sign contracts, and consumers can also reflect their feedback suggestions on the websites of enterprises or businesses, and enterprises or businesses should timely investigate product types and service quality according to consumers' feedback to achieve benign interaction.