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The Age of Sharing Economy Arrives

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The world is changing rapidly. What are the younger talking about? What is the media reporting? What are policymakers concerned about? What is changing our lives? The answer is the sharing economy. In the past years, the world economy has reached a critical point, and there has been a split between the old and the new economic forms. As a representative of the new economic form, the sharing economy, driven by Internet technology, moves forward with an irresistible trend and pushes the global sharing era. The sharing model has a long history. From animals to humans and from primitive civilization to the information society, sharing has always existed. Today, the development of the sharing economy is gaining momentum. It has penetrated into various fields such as service, manufacturing, innovation, medical care, logistics, finance, and government management. With reuse arrival, the sharing economy is already an arrow detached from the string. It is irresistibly going forward, leading to a new era.

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    Airbnb, the abbreviation of Air Bed and Breakfast, is called Airborne Accommodation. Airbnb is a travel house rental community where users publish, search for vacation rental rentals and complete online bookings via the web or mobile application.

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    Marriott International Group (NYSE:MAR) is the world's leading international hotel management company.

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    Mobike, the English name mobike, is an Internet short-distance travel solution developed by Beijing Mobai Technology Co., Ltd., founded by Hu Weiwei, and is a smart hardware that has no pile to return the car mode. People can quickly rent and return a Mobike through a smart phone, and can finish a few kilometers of city riding at an affordable price.

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    Jiwa (GW), physical terms, power units.

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Zhang, Y. (2021). The Age of Sharing Economy Arrives. In: Sharing Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3649-3_1

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