China's first professional yearbook for E-commerce was published on January 29, 2002.

The 2002 Yearbook of Electronic-Commerce in China is 1.27 million words long and provides an wide-ranging overview of Chinese E-commerce activities. Forty-two chapters are divided into seven parts: survey; development; standards; applications; trends; enterprises and appendices.

Informations and documents in the yearbook were provided by 14 ministries and a total of 181 enterprise covering 12 industries including banking, insurance, telecommunications and transportation. A galaxy of 179 experts, some from China's top universities as Beking University and Tsinghua University, were involved in the compiling.

This yearbook is the first to be published this year in China. Among the recent documents included in the book is an article entitled Review and Prospects of the Chinese Financial Industry, released by China's top banker Dai Xianglong on January 16, 2002. Also included is the Statistics on Development of China's Internet, provided by the Information Center of Chinese Internet on January 15, 2002.

(02/06/2002, chinadaily.com.cn)