GOVERNMENTAL PURCHASE -- BREAKTHROUGH OF ELECTRIONIC BUSINESS

AsiaInfo Services
11-19-2001
Governmental Purchase -- Breakthrough of Electrionic Business

CHINA, Nov 19, 2001 (AsiaPort via COMTEX) -- The progress of information technologies and the advantages of electronic business has turned the rapid development of global electronic business into reality. Utilizing Internet has been an effective manner to promote the development of governmental purchase. At present the development of China electronic business starts just now. The number of the civil electronic business websites has increased from 100 in 1999 to 300 in 2001. However the trade sum of China eletronic business has been only USD 0.2 billion in 1999. Most of the exchanges are between enterprises and consumers. The government has been the largest purchaser in this market. But the governmental purchase grows up just now. The governmental purchase should gain great achievements in electronic business.

The potential huge space of governmental purchase needs to be finished by electronic business. Guandong province has been the largest province of China in financial outgo. So its governmental purchase outgo should be the largest in China. As the large information province, the annual product value of Guangdong electronic information products has been nearly 300 billion Yuan. It has been the largest one in China in the past 10 years.

The governmental purchase must connect with the world after China enters WTO. Now utilizing modern electronic business technologies to construct network governmental purchase platform will be more favorable to realize the industrialization of the governmental purchase of China. And it humors the international tideway of electronic governmental purchase.

From China Computer World , Page 13, Thursday, November 15, 2001
info@AsiaPort.Com

KEYWORD: CHINA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: Marketing
Investment SUBJECT CODE: General News and News in Other Industries

Copyright 2001 AsiaInfo Services (via Comtex). All rights reserved