Research On The Impact Of E-commerce Development On The China’s International Trade

The advent and gaining popularity of internet technology has brought a new information age to human life which meanwhile provides the foundation for electronic commerce rapidly booming. With China continually promoting the information industry construction in these years, most enterprises and industries have formed a perfect hardware and software gradually.The broad application of electronic commerce has impacted enormously on enterprises growth, the country’s economic competitiveness and international economy extensive links. As electronic commerce application has openness, timeliness, across localization and etc characteristics, it speeds up the transformation of the traditional economy pattern and trade form, thus brought significant influence to China international trade. This paper makes a preliminary analysis on the effect of electronic commerce on Chinese economy.For above reasons, in the first part, this thesis starts with the conception and measure of electronic commerce development level. Then by a power of work at many research literatures by former scholars from both domestic and foreign, this paper summarizes main measure and evaluation of electronic commerce development level by the related fundamental facilities, human capital policy environments and etc. And this paper figures out the present situation and problems of the existing research about electronic commerce’s impact on trade. Secondly, the electronic commerce develops based upon the construction of information infrastructure. In other words, information level is one extremely important supporting system of electronic commerce. Thus this part analyzes status of Chinese electronic commerce and trade development from every aspect of infrastructure that affects electronic commerce. Thirdly, based on related economics, with perspectives of transaction costs, technology innovation and etc, this thesis analyzes the mechanisms behind that how the electronic commerce impact on Chinese trade. At last, index and data related with electronic commerce development level are selected as the measurement index to do quantitative analysis on influences of electronic commerce on trade. Then this paper does further analysis based on the compare quantitative analysis result with existing research.