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E-government as a new form of government management is a special public goods with nonexclusive, noncompetitive and public characteristics in consumption. The current research on E-government focuses mostly on the technical problems, and some public economics characteristics of E-Government are ignored. In this paper the public goods characteristics of E-government is identified. Then the comprehensive quantitative relationship analysis of the construction scale of E-government and the demand influenced by the scale of the tax revenue and people's incomes is researched with the analytical tools of public economics. And the method of defining the E-government equilibrium quantity is provided.