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With the web age approaching, the Internet is emerging as the “most exciting business arena” in history, information technology industry is becoming the world largest “industry,” and the mode of human existence is going through fundamental transformations. According to the report released by the e-commerce market research company, in 2012, the global e-commerce sales increased by 21.1 %, breaking the record of 1 trillion US$ for the first time. In 2013, it is estimated that the United States will still be the largest global e-commerce market and China will soon take the second place.
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Sun, W., Zhang, M. (2015). The Revolution of Knowledge Value: Ethical Considerations in the New Economic Age. In: The “New Culture”. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48011-3_2
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