In China, e-payment dates back to 1998 when China Merchants Bank introduced online banking services. After that, banks started to offer online payment, mobile banking and online transaction services. Initially, banks totally dominated e-payment, and the premier payment model was the payment interface established by large enterprise users and banks. However, as small and medium-sized businesses' payment needs grew and diversified, third-party payment platforms came into the field of e-payment, serving as a bridge between businesses and banks. The boom of third-party payment platforms promoted the improvement of the e-payment industry.
　　In 2006, the e-payment industry maintained fast growth. The emergence of online payment, mobile payment, and telephone payment expedited the industry's development. Nonetheless, policy risks, security hazards, and credit deficiency still exist.
　　In the face of the macro environment being full of opportunities and challenges, Our releases the 2006-2007 Annual Report on the Development of China's E-Payment Industry, which helps vendors, investors, and industry chain grasp the pulse of China's e-payment industry in the following aspects, to identify the industry's lifecycle and opportunities more accurately.
　　In probing the present situation, the report depicts the industry's development and changes in 2006 from the angle of development environment, structure of industry chain, industry layout and competition in the industry chain, to discern the industry's development trend.
　　In briefly analyzing major brands' competition performance in 2006, it sums up enterprises' successes and failures in the dimension of shares of market segments, competition situation, and competition strategy, and reviews the makings of leading players.
　　After presenting in-depth quantitative forecast of the industry, it conducts modeling regression and expert verification of industry size, and obtains valuable trend analysis and quantitative results.
　　Moreover, it analyses the industry's growth potential, and studies the profit status of the links across the industry chain.
　　

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