organization, and empowering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can
create superimposition, aggregation, and multiplication effects. As levels of digitization, networking, and intelligence in manufacturing continue to increase, the role
of capacity sharing in stimulating “double innovation,” fostering new models, and
driving supply-side structural reforms will become more prominent.
The role of reservoirs and stabilizers in employment in the sharing economy
becomes more pronounced, with an increasing number of people participating as
flexible workers depending on interest, skills, time, and resources. Through the
sharing of various economic activities, the sharing economy has become an important source of growth in the employment sector and can promote consumption. It can
continue to stimulate novel consumer demand as well as meet the limited consumer
demand of traditional service models. With changes in attitudes and priorities for
personal fulfillment, shared services become an important force to accelerate penetration into key areas of life and promote consumption. The sharing economy is a
catalyst for innovation, including employment, working, and consumption.
The sharing economy will be an important scenario for technological innovation
in the field of AI. In travel, lodging, and healthcare, AI is used for identity verification, content governance, decision support, risk prevention and control, service
assessment, and network and information security auditing. It plays an important
role in other aspects and has great application potential. The pace of application of
blockchain technology will also be accelerated to provide technical support for the
establishment of social trust systems and credit guarantee systems in the sharing
economy.
Following various corrective and regulatory actions in 2018 and the formal
implementation of the Electronic Commerce Act, the sharing economy will continue
its strong regulatory developments. The development of standardization systems in
the sharing economy is accelerating, and industry-wide service standards and specifications are expected to be introduced in areas such as shared offices, cloud creation
platforms, shared medicine, and online takeout.
13.4.2 The Sharing Economy and the Internet: A Future
Economy
The Internet combined with various platforms based on time and space provide
technical support for accelerating the prosperity of the sharing model. Before the
advent of the Internet, human activities such as production and leisure were limited
by the physical world and geographically dispersed in urban and rural areas. The
arrival of the Internet has removed the limitations of time, space, and social class.
Consumers from different countries and regions can form different virtual communities online, initiating economic activities that are different from those in traditional
markets. The Internet is the technological foundation of the sharing economy Belk
(2014a, b) attributes the phenomenon of collaborative consumption and the sharing
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create superimposition, aggregation, and multiplication effects. As levels of digitization, networking, and intelligence in manufacturing continue to increase, the role
of capacity sharing in stimulating “double innovation,” fostering new models, and
driving supply-side structural reforms will become more prominent.
The role of reservoirs and stabilizers in employment in the sharing economy
becomes more pronounced, with an increasing number of people participating as
flexible workers depending on interest, skills, time, and resources. Through the
sharing of various economic activities, the sharing economy has become an important source of growth in the employment sector and can promote consumption. It can
continue to stimulate novel consumer demand as well as meet the limited consumer
demand of traditional service models. With changes in attitudes and priorities for
personal fulfillment, shared services become an important force to accelerate penetration into key areas of life and promote consumption. The sharing economy is a
catalyst for innovation, including employment, working, and consumption.
The sharing economy will be an important scenario for technological innovation
in the field of AI. In travel, lodging, and healthcare, AI is used for identity verification, content governance, decision support, risk prevention and control, service
assessment, and network and information security auditing. It plays an important
role in other aspects and has great application potential. The pace of application of
blockchain technology will also be accelerated to provide technical support for the
establishment of social trust systems and credit guarantee systems in the sharing
economy.
Following various corrective and regulatory actions in 2018 and the formal
implementation of the Electronic Commerce Act, the sharing economy will continue
its strong regulatory developments. The development of standardization systems in
the sharing economy is accelerating, and industry-wide service standards and specifications are expected to be introduced in areas such as shared offices, cloud creation
platforms, shared medicine, and online takeout.
13.4.2 The Sharing Economy and the Internet: A Future
Economy
The Internet combined with various platforms based on time and space provide
technical support for accelerating the prosperity of the sharing model. Before the
advent of the Internet, human activities such as production and leisure were limited
by the physical world and geographically dispersed in urban and rural areas. The
arrival of the Internet has removed the limitations of time, space, and social class.
Consumers from different countries and regions can form different virtual communities online, initiating economic activities that are different from those in traditional
markets. The Internet is the technological foundation of the sharing economy Belk
(2014a, b) attributes the phenomenon of collaborative consumption and the sharing
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