When John answered the doorbell recently, he was rather astonished to see what he had purchased on the Internet only two days before sitting on his doorstep. "I never expected to get (1) my books so quickly, " he told Business Weekly. Tommy shared John’s experience. He said online shopping was very good and always offered comparatively lower prices than ordinary retailer stores. Along with the rapidly developing (2) IT industry, online shopping is attracting the interest of more and more people. The general manager of the Electronic Business Department of Federal Software Co. Ltd., said online shopping had tremendous market potential giving the large population. The company established (3) an online shopping center for Internet surfers. More than 14,000 kinds of goods are available, including computers, software, books and daily necessity. Daily visitors to the site surged froml0,000 in March (4) to 30,000 in June, and that figure is likely to multiple. (5) Industry experts say that because of the lack of appropriate payment tools, online shopping is still at a primitive stage. The application of online payment marks up a milestone for the development of the online (6) industry. However, problems such as a limited pot of Internet users, (7) comparatively high charges on Internet surfing and traditional views (8) on shopping have hindered the development of online shopping. Federal Software Co. Ltd. plans to invest U.S. $24 million on its (9) shopping website. They are going to seek cooperation with domestic and oversea companies to extend the variety of online products. (10)