Rebirth of the Wild Age

2003, New Year's Day.

The first trial operation of the maglev train was shown on the TV. The commander-in-chief of the project, Wu, said to the camera lens very excitedly: “If you haven’t been in a maglev vehicle, you can’t be counted as having been to Dashenghai...maglev. The maximum speed of the train can reach 450 kilometers per hour. As long as the track is laid, a business person will take a maglev vehicle from Shenghai in the morning and arrive in the capital in about three hours. After the business negotiation, he will return by car in the evening. You can eat and rest at Shenghai’s house, which saves you money on hotel expenses... If you use a maglev vehicle to connect the major cities in the Yangtze River Delta, the resources in this area can be shared, and Pudong Airport will become Linzhou’s Airport……"

"Oh!"

The camera cuts to the start of the maglev train, and on both sides of the maglev track was covered with onlookers, and there was a huge cheer.

"We arrived from Puxi early in the morning, just like seeing what a maglev car looks like!" said an elderly couple with gray hair to the camera.

Another middle-aged man in a suit said: "I came to Shanghai from Beijing for business trip. In order to take a maglev car, I deliberately delayed the return time by a few days. Unfortunately, I still couldn't buy a ticket..."

Lin Zhuoyun watched the TV and said to Song Weiyang, "Husband, let's try it someday, the maglev car looks so advanced."

"Okay, I'll let you book tickets." Song Weiyang patted Xiao Liuzi's vest. The hapless child was lying on his father's lap, his eyes seemed to be closed, his mouth sucking in the air and reminiscent of the milk.

Lin Zhuoyun said: "It doesn't seem to be easy to buy tickets."

"There are scalpers." Song Weiyang smiled.

The ordinary ticket of the maglev car is 150 yuan, and the VIP ticket is 300 yuan. This is the price of a round trip, and the one-way fare is halved. However, it is only January 1st. People who want to try their best have already booked all the tickets for January 5. The 150-yuan ticket has been fired up to thousands of yuan by the scalper party. Even so, the scalper tickets are in short supply.

The most nonsense is that the maglev route is only 33 kilometers (actually less than 30 kilometers), and the train speed is as high as 450 kilometers per hour.

In other words, some people spend thousands of yuan on a round-trip ticket, and aside from the time spent in the station, the round-trip journey is over in 15 minutes. This is thousands of dollars in 2003. It can be seen that those who can afford scalper tickets are local tyrants who don't use money as money. Some people even fly over from other places to buy scalper tickets to experience the maglev train. From the very beginning, this thing is sightseeing rather than a practical means of transportation.

This is the world's first maglev vehicle that is truly put into commercial use. Not to mention, just the words "No. 1 in the world" can make the whole country happy from top to bottom.

The "maglev car" itself, just listen to the name, it seems sci-fi.

Lin Zhuoyun archived the edited manuscript and sent it to her assistant tomorrow to use it, and then she wandered on the Internet by herself. She found that maglev vehicles were being discussed everywhere on the Internet, and she couldn't help joining the ranks, discussing when maglev vehicles could be promoted to the whole country.

Only Song Weiyang knows that in the next ten years, it will be the high-speed rail that can be extended to the whole country.

In 2003, which was plagued by disasters, it was the first day of beaming. Song Weiyang vaguely remembered that in a certain month in 2003, he was discussing business in Rongcheng, and suddenly the entire hotel was blocked because a suspected SARS patient appeared in the hotel.

Report to the government in advance now?

Song Weiyang only knew that the source of the infection seemed to be in Guangdong Province, but had no impression of other details. He didn't know where to start if he wanted to warn him. In fact, at this time, the epidemic has appeared for more than a month, but doctors treated it as ordinary pneumonia. Song Weiyang always thought that SARS occurred around the Spring Festival, but it actually broke out in the winter of the previous year.

If Song Weiyang is reborn now, he can stock up on mung beans, isatis root, and vinegar in advance, but he has nothing to do as the richest man.

The so-called difficult to rejuvenate a country, since the SARS outbreak, China has successively issued the "Regulations on Public Health Emergencies", "National Overall Emergency Plan for Public Emergencies", "National Emergency Plan for Public Health Emergencies," and "National Emergency Response Plan". Issue Public Emergency Medical and Health Rescue Emergency Plan”, “Guidelines for the Preparation of Emergency Plan for Public Health Emergencies in Communities (Townships)”... There are a lot of relevant regulations and regulations, but these are just a few of them, and China has established the world as a result The most comprehensive and efficient sanitation and epidemic prevention system.

There is no one, this is the only one in the world, and only China can achieve this level.

Moreover, when SARS severely affected the national economy, some industries have achieved unexpected development, such as e-commerce!

Take Dong Ge as an example. During the SARS period, there was no business and few customers were seen in a month. Dong Ge, who doesn't even bother to pull a broadband network cable, can only try to sell electronic products in major forums. The result surprised him. Many netizens remembered Dong Ge selling discs in Zhongguancun back then and took the initiative to help him post for promotion. The number of online orders that month quickly surpassed his monthly sales in physical stores before SARS. JD.com began to transform into e-commerce.

Also encountering a similar situation is Ma Xiaoyun, Alibaba's B2B business, which exploded during the SARS period. Before SARS was over, Ma Xiaoyun launched Taobao along the way. Since then, he has set foot in the B2C model, and the website has made a good start as soon as it opened.

There is also a short message service. During SARS, you can’t go out at will, surfing the Internet and making phone calls are expensive, and most people don’t have a computer. Then just send text messages. The SMS business volume of several major operators has soared, and text messages have become a fashionable way of communication, and even the okay forwarding mode has become popular. At that time, the most popular forwarding text message content was: "If you Now at work, you are a warrior. If you are shopping now, you are a warrior. If you are now quarantined, you have become a hermit. If you read this text message and do not reply, then you must be a martyr."

Even the fierce general Dianwei became popular. Someone made up a piece of "Three Kingdoms: Wei Shu": "Taizu (Cao Cao) conquered Jingzhou, Zhiwan, Zhang Xiuying surrendered... Embroidered against, attacked Taizu camp. Taizu's battle was unfavorable. , Qingqi led away. (Dian) Wei fights at the door, no thieves can enter... Taizu retreated to Wuyin, and heard that Dianwei died, because of runny nose. Taking the funeral during the recruitment, he cried personally, saying:'SARS Also, my life is over!"

This is probably the earliest high-end joke player.

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New Year's Day.

Shenzhou MP3 came out quietly, supporting both MP3 and WMA formats. It is the third portable player in the world that supports WMA format. Unfortunately, there are very few buyers, first because the price is very expensive, and second because they don't know where to download the songs.

What makes Song Weiyang and Shen Fuxing very speechless is that the sales of Shenzhou MP3s did not start to soar until the SARS period.

Many young people who are inconvenient to go out flipped through computer magazines and saw the China MP3 advertisement, so they called or sent an e-mail to place an order-first remit the money and then ship the goods, and pay for the postage.

At the same time, two other domestic brands of MP3 have also come out, but the sales still cannot keep up with the Shenzhou MP3. Because only China's gadgets support WMA format, let alone MP3 format has more vitality, people are optimistic about WMA at this time for a reason: under the same sound quality, the space occupied by WMA files is only half of the MP3 files, while the gadgets at this time The storage space is very small, which equals to double the number of songs that can be stored. And the sound quality of WMA is closer to that of CD, and it sounds more pleasing (this does not matter, only professionals can hear it).

Of course, regardless of the brand, MP3 sales are temporarily low, because the market is still in the development period.

However, the sales volume of China Computers is gratifying. From New Year's Day to the Spring Festival, China's new computer ownership, if only looking at domestic brands, Lenovo's share has fallen to 55.8%, and China's share has risen to 26.1%. And if foreign brands are also included, no matter if it is Lenovo, China, or TCL, Great Wall, everyone's market share is soaring, and foreign brands are being wildly seized by domestic products.

The same situation appears in the mobile phone market. Domestic mobile phones have stunned foreign brands!

In the first quarter of 2003, Motorola's market share was still growing, but Nokia's market share was beaten to less than 20%, Siemens' market share plummeted by half, and Sony Ericsson was gone forever on the road of "other brands"~www. readwn.com~ The market share of China Mobile increased to 15.3%, and the market share of Bird Mobile increased to 9.6%.

The total market share of all brands of domestic mobile phones exceeded 50% for the first time, and the media hailed that "the year of domestic mobile phones is here."

Some experts even speculate that Nokia will follow in the footsteps of Sony Ericsson based on the data of the past two years and will eventually be abandoned by Chinese consumers. No one can predict that Nokia will make a comeback in a year, making the Chinese mobile phone market gloomy. The domestic mobile phones that rose in full in 2003 suddenly languished in 2004, and a large number of domestic mobile phone brands died.

The reason is that domestic brands do not have independent research and development capabilities, or do not care about independent research and development at all. Many domestic mobile phone manufacturers even only purchase modules, outsourcing mobile phone solutions, outsourcing appearance design, and hiring OEMs for production, all they need to do is to sell.

Domestic mobile phones were able to advance by leaps and bounds in 2002 and 2003, relying on low-price strategies and the advantages of local channels. When foreign brands, led by Nokia and Motorola, continue to introduce higher-performance mobile phones, continuously reduce the prices of older models, and gradually improve channels, what are the competitiveness of domestic mobile phones?

But no matter what happens next year, in the first quarter of this year, China's mobile phone market share was only 4% short of catching up with Nokia, and China's profits soared!

China Technology’s Chairman Song Weiyang and President and CEO Shen Fuxing have become well-deserved pioneers of Chinese technology. The media always compare Song Weiyang with Lenovo Liu, and Shen Fuxing with Lenovo Yang. There are even sayings of "Southern Song Beiliu" and "Southern Shenbei Yang".

Shen Fuxing once lost his temper directly to reporters: "Don't compare China to the'Lenovo of the mobile phone industry.' China is China, and China not only sells mobile phones, we also sell computers!"