1, Electronic contract is a action of civil legal.
Electronic Contract which is a civil legal action is two-sided or multiple the subject, by electronic means between the parties to establish, change, termination of property rights and obligations as the head of the civil
, And between the parties entered into a contract of this contract is electronic, a new form of contract. Under the "Model Law on Electronic Commerce," in the relevant provisions of the electronic contract based on the property for the purpose of the agreement,
The Model Law lists a large number of commercial relationships.

2, Electronic contract transaction subject of virtualization and generalization .
The entire process of electronic contract formation is used in electronic form, by e-mail, EDI, etc. for electronic contract negotiation, signing, and fulfillment. This contract means big savings transaction costs and improve economic efficiency. Electronic contract transactions of the main global village can be any natural and legal persons and their related organizations, such a transaction method, of course the need to provide a range of distribution sets of measures, such as to establish a credit system, so that the transaction before the transaction relative who know each other's credit conditions in the world economic globalization today, the credit interest will become an invisible property.

3, Electronic contracting has the technical,

standardization of the characteristics of
Electronic contracts are carried out through computer networks, he has another contract with the traditional method of electronic contracts throughout the transaction process requires a series of international and domestic technical standards to regulate them
, Such as: electronic signatures, electronic authentication and so on. These specific standards are the basis for the existence of electronic contracts, without the technical and standards related to electronic contract can not be achieved and there.

4, The electronic contract formulate
China's "Contract Law" provisions of the Contract requires offer and acceptance that the two processes, electronic contract also need to have these elements. The traditional contract offer and commitment to the approach
Unlike electronic contracts, electronic contracts are in the offer and acceptance in electronic form can be completed, enter the relevant information is mainly in line with pre-set programs, the computer can automatically make a similar
The meaning to be expressed.

5, Electronic contract means electronize

The electronize means that the process of conclusion of the contract through the relevant electronic means to express their will of an act, the performance of such acts is through electronic forms real.
There are now. "Model Law on Electronic Commerce," said Lieutenant-General electronic means referred to as "data message."