The core data of this paper: a summary of the relevant policies of China's electronic signature industry, the reasons for the use of electronic signature users in China, the number and growth rate of electronic contracts signed in China, and the scale and growth rate of China's electronic signature market.
The industry has entered the deepening period of application.
Electronic signature refers to the data contained in the data message in electronic form and accompanied by data used to identify the identity of the signer and show that the signer approves its content. The development of electronic signature industry in China has gone through the embryonic stage, policy exploration stage, market start-up stage and high-speed development stage. With the development of digital economy, China's electronic signature industry has entered a deepening period of application, and the application of electronic signature has accelerated to penetrate into various industries.
This policy encourages the application of electronic signatures.
In recent years, China has successively issued policies to encourage the application of electronic signatures. In 2004, People's Republic of China (PRC) Electronic Signature Law was promulgated, which legalized electronic signature. In 20021year, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued the Guide to Concluding Electronic Labor Contracts, which intensified its publicity, guided willing employers and workers to conclude electronic labor contracts, and gradually promoted the comprehensive application of electronic labor contracts in human resources and social security government services.
Electronic signature effectively improves efficiency.
With the development of economy and society, electronic signature is widely used because of its convenience and quickness. According to the survey data, the main reasons why electronic signature users in China use electronic signatures are to improve efficiency, carry out in different places, save costs and facilitate evidence collection.
The scale of electronic signature market exceeds 10 billion.
With the popularity of electronic signature by users, the acceptance of electronic signature is constantly improving, and it has been applied in school education industry, financial industry, real estate industry, online office platform, human resources industry and so on. China electronic signature industry has also entered a period of rapid growth. The data shows that in 2020, the number of electronic contracts signed in China reached 55.70 billion, a year-on-year increase of 99.7%; The market scale of electronic signature reached 654.38+00.82 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 53.9%.