21世纪是一个电子商务的时代。据瑞士信贷银行日前发表的一份研究报告显示，全球的电子商务金额正在以每年翻一番的速度增长，预计到2003年，将达到1.24万亿美元。报告指出，去年这一数字为980亿美元，比1998年的380亿美元增长160%。据预测，亚太地区（除日本外）2003年的电子 The 21st century is an era of e-commerce. According to a research report published by Credit Suisse recently, the amount of e-commerce in the world is doubling every year and it is estimated that by 2003 it will reach 1.24 trillion U.S. dollars. The report pointed out that last year this figure was 98 billion U.S. dollars, up 160% over 38 billion U.S. dollars in 1998. It is predicted that in 2003 Asia Pacific (except Japan) Electronics