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As information technology booms, investment into e-commerce will be key to businesses’ growth, held experts.

Potential benefits and challenges for the digital economy and new-age regulations for new-age businesses were discussed at a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on August 30.

The Government has approved an e-commerce development plan for 2016-20 that targets 50 percent of consumers switching from cash to other forms of payment.

After five years of implementation of the General Plan to Develop Electronic Commerce 2011-15, e-commerce has contributed greatly to the country's socio-economic growth.