(Original Title: Virtual Economy of Asia --Market That Has Not Born Yet.

Public date: January 16, 2008

Ecommerce Journal

Translated By: a_lan )

In contrast to Europe and the USA where onlinepayments and e-commerce became part of everyday life Asian countriesonly begin to develop the market of digital money. According to thesurvey of eMarketer in 2006 the total amount of e-commerce sales forfive major markets in Asia-Pacific region was only $59.1 billion and62.3% share of them belongs to Japan market.

欧洲和美国的在线支付和电子商务已经成为了日常生活的一部份了，相对而言，亚洲国家则刚刚开始开发数字货币市场。根据eMarkter的调查显示，2006年亚太地区五个主要市场的电子商务总销售额只有$591亿美元，其中日本占了62.3%。

But the financial analysts predict that by 2011 Japan and anothergiant of Asian e-market Korea will lose their positions to China andIndia which develop in galloping tempo. But it is not easy to develope-commerce industry there as these countries lack nationwide creditcard system or other networks and the whole economy and B2Ctransactions are built on cash-basis.

但是财经分析家们认为，到2011年，日本和现在亚洲的另外一个主要的电子市场韩国，将让位于目前正在正在飞速发展的中国和印度。但在那里要发展电子商务行业并不容易，因为这些国家要么缺乏全国性的信用卡系统或网络，要么整个经济体和B2C交易都是基于现金的。

The smaller countries in that region like Thailand, the Philippinesand Malaysia also tend to develop in this sphere and represent a tastymorsel for investors. The economy of this region is very weak andundeveloped but the markets are very promising and too big to be simplyignored.

此地区的其他一些小国家如泰国，菲律宾和马来西亚也在力图发展以求能分得一杯羹。这个地区的经济还显得很弱很落后，但市场却是非常看好，并且大得绝对不能忽视。