In 2000, on-line and off-line B2B transactions were 305 million RMB (US$36.7 million) and 76 billion RMB (US$9.1 billion), respectively, as shown in Table 27. This is an estimate by the respected domestic IT information consultant firm, CCID, which is closely tied to China’s Ministry of Information Industry. Because of the variance of B2B definition and data collection methods, the size of China’s B2B transactions has a wide range by different sources.