The development of distance education in China experienced three stages: the initial correspondence education, the radio and television education in the 1980s and modern distance education based on information and network technology. 　　 At present, the market volume of the global distance education has increased to 60 billion USD in 2007 form 23 billion USD in 2004. China's online education industry comprehensive report issued by Distance Education in China pointed out that the total market scale of distance education in China has reached 12.5 billion CNY. At the end of November, 2005, Analysys International published China's Distance Education Market Monitoring in the Third Quarter of 2005 showing that the distance education market scale in 2005 would reach 11.61 billion CNY, the online basic education market is 1.58 billion CNY, the online degree education market is 8.5 billion CNY, the online profession attestation and training market is 1.4 billion CNY and the Enterprise E-learning market volume is 130 million CNY. 　 　The statistics data of “2007-2008 China Distance Education Development Report" issued by iResearch showed that the distance education in China in 2007 reached 17.5 billion CNY with an increase of 20.7%; distance education users was up to 12.2 million with an increase of 25.1%. iResearch thought the continuous increase of market scale would lay a solid foundation for China’s distance education market entering into a service age. 　　As the multi-development of domestic distance education suppliers and the fierce competition, especially under the background of the globalization of economy and education and China’s entry into WTO, more and more foreign colleges and enterprises enter into the China’s distance education market. At present, the distance education in China is in a transitional phase from seller’s market to buyer’s market. As the acceleration of knowledge updating, the further expansion of social non-degree education demands and the perfection of internet application environment, the distance education and training market will become more prosperous.