Rebirth of the Wild Age

In 2003, New Year's Day.

The first trial operation of the maglev train was being played on the TV. Director Wu of the project said to the camera very excitedly: If you haven't taken a maglev train, you haven't been to Dashenghai...Maglev The maximum speed of the train can reach 450 kilometers per hour. As long as the track is paved, a businessman will take the maglev train from Shenghai in the morning and arrive at the capital in about three hours. You can eat and rest at Shenghai's home, which can also save you a lot of hotel expenses... If the main cities in the Yangtze River Delta are connected by maglev vehicles, then the resources in this area can be shared, and Pudong Airport will become Linzhou's airport. Airport……

oh!

The camera cut to the start of the maglev train, and the maglev track was covered with crowds of onlookers, who burst into loud cheers.

We came from Puxi early in the morning, just to see what the maglev vehicle looks like! An elderly couple with gray hair said to the camera.

Another middle-aged man in a suit said: I came to Shanghai from Beijing on business. In order to take the maglev train, I deliberately postponed the return time for a few days. It's a pity that I still can't buy a ticket...

Lin Zhuoyun was quite moved while watching the TV, and said to Song Weiyang: Husband, let's try it someday, the maglev looks so advanced.

Okay, I'll let someone book a ticket. Song Weiyang patted the little six's vest. The unlucky kid was lying on his father's lap, his eyes seemed to be closed, and he kept sucking in the air with his mouth to relish the smell of milk.

Lin Zhuoyun said: It seems that it is not easy to buy tickets.

There are scalpers. Song Weiyang laughed.

The ordinary ticket for the maglev vehicle 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 now, and the people who want to try it out have already booked all the tickets for January 5th. Tickets with a face value of 150 yuan have been sold to thousands of yuan by scalpers. Even so, scalper tickets are in short supply.

The most ridiculous thing 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.

That is to say, some people spend thousands of yuan to buy a round-trip ticket, and the round-trip journey is over in 15 minutes, regardless of the time of stopping at the station halfway. This was thousands of yuan in 2003. It can be seen that those who can afford scalpers are local tyrants who don't treat money as money. Some people even fly from other places to buy a scalper ticket to experience the maglev train. From the beginning, this thing is for sightseeing, not a practical means of transportation.

This is the world's first maglev vehicle that is actually put into commercial use. Not to mention anything else, just the word world's first can make the whole country jubilant from top to bottom.

As for the maglev vehicle itself, just hearing the name sounds like science fiction.

Lin Zhuoyun archived the edited manuscript and sent it to the assistant for use tomorrow, and wandered around the Internet by herself. She found that maglev vehicles were being discussed everywhere on the Internet, and she couldn't help joining the ranks, talking about when maglev vehicles would be rolled out to the whole country.

Only Song Weiyang knows that in the next ten years or so, the high-speed rail will be promoted to the whole country.

In 2003, which was full of disasters and disasters, the first day was filled with happiness. Song Weiyang still vaguely remembers that in his previous life in 2003, he was discussing business in Chengdu, 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 he had no impression of other details, and he didn't know where to start if he wanted to warn. In fact, the epidemic had already occurred for more than a month at this time, but doctors treated it as ordinary pneumonia. Song Weiyang always thought that SARS appeared around the Spring Festival, but it actually broke out in the winter of the previous year.

If Song Weiyang had just been reborn now, he could stock up on things like mung beans, isatid roots, and sun-dried vinegar in advance, but he has nothing to do as the richest man.

The so-called prosperity of the country due to many difficulties, since the outbreak of SARS, China has successively issued the Regulations on Public Health Emergencies, National General Emergency Plan for Public Emergencies, National Emergency Plan for Public Health Emergencies, National Emergencies Emergency Plan for Medical and Health Rescue for Public Events, Guidelines for Compiling Community (Township) Emergency Plans for Public Health Emergencies... There are a lot of relevant regulations and regulations, these are just a few of them, and China has established a world-wide The most comprehensive and efficient health and epidemic prevention system.

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

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

Take Dong Ge as an example. During the SARS period, there was no business, and he didn't see a few customers for a month. Brother Dong, who doesn't even bother to pull broadband network cables, can only try to sell electronic products on various forums. The result surprised him. There were still many netizens who remembered Dongge selling discs in Zhongguancun, and offered to help him post promotions. The number of online orders that month soon exceeded the monthly sales of his brick-and-mortar stores before SARS. JD.com began its transition to e-commerce.

Ma Xiaoyun also encountered a similar situation. Alibaba's b2b business exploded during the SARS period. Before SARS was over, Ma Xiaoyun took advantage of the trend and launched Taobao. Since then, he has been involved in the b2c model, and the website has made a good start as soon as it opened.

In addition, there is also SMS service. During the SARS period, you can’t go out at will. Internet access and phone calls are very expensive, and most people don’t have computers. Then just send text messages. The SMS business volume of several major operators has soared. SMS has thus become a fashionable communication method, and even the forwarding mode of nothing has become popular. The content of the most popular forwarded text message at that time was: If you Now at work, you are a warrior. If you are shopping now, you are a warrior. If you are quarantined now, you have become a hermit. If you read this text message and don’t reply, then you must be a martyr.”

Even the fierce general Dian Wei became popular, and someone made up a piece of Three Kingdoms·Wei Shu: Taizu (Cao Cao) conquered Jingzhou, went to Wan, and Zhang Xiu surrendered...Xiu rebelled and attacked Taizu's camp. Taizu was not good in battle. , Qingqi led away. (Dian) Wei fought in the gate, and thieves were not allowed to enter... Taizu retreated to Wuyin. Hearing that Dian Wei died, he had a runny nose. During the fundraising, he took his funeral and cried in person, saying: SARS Yes, my life is over'!

This is probably the earliest high-end joker.

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New Year's Day.

Shenzhou mp3 came out quietly, supporting both mp3 and wma formats, and is the third portable player in the world that supports wma formats. Unfortunately, there are very few buyers, firstly because the price is very expensive, and secondly because they do not know where to download songs after buying them.

What left Song Weiyang and Shen Fuxing speechless was that the sales of MP3s in Shenzhou did not start to soar until the SARS period.

Many young people who are inconvenient to go out read computer magazines and see the advertisement of China MP3, so they call or send emails to place an order, remit money first, and then deliver the goods, and pay for the postage.

At the same time, the other two domestic brands of mp3 have also come out, but the sales volume is still not as good as that of Shenzhou mp3. Because only China's machines support the wma format, let alone the mp3 format, there is a reason why people are optimistic about wma at this time: under the same sound quality, the space occupied by wma files is only half of that of mp3 files. The storage space is very small, which is equal to the number of songs that can be stored twice. And the sound quality of wma is closer to CD and sounds more pleasant (it doesn't matter, only professionals can hear it).

Of course, no matter which brand it is, the sales volume of mp3 is very low for the time being, because the market is still in the development period.

However, the sales volume of PCs in China is gratifying. From New Year’s Day to the Spring Festival, the number of new PCs in China, if you only look at domestic brands, Lenovo’s share has dropped to 55.8%, and China’s share has risen to 26.1%. And if foreign brands are also counted, whether it is Lenovo, China, tcl, or Great Wall, everyone's market share is soaring, and foreign brands are being crazily seized by domestic products.

The same situation occurs in the mobile phone market, where domestic mobile phones completely overwhelm foreign brands!

In the first quarter of 2003, Motorola's market share was still growing, but Nokia's market share was reduced to less than 20%, Siemens' market share plummeted by half, and Sony Ericsson never returned on the road of other brands. The market share of Shenzhou mobile phones increased to 15.3%, and that of Bird mobile phones increased to 9.6%.

The combined market share of all brands of domestic mobile phones exceeded 50% for the first time, and the media cheered the year of domestic mobile phones has arrived.

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 another year, making the Chinese mobile phone market dark and dark. However, domestic mobile phones, which rose in an all-round way 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 simply do not care about independent research and development. Many domestic mobile phone manufacturers even only purchase modules, outsource mobile phone solutions, outsource appearance design, and hire OEMs for production, all they need to do is sell.

Domestic mobile phones were able to advance by leaps and bounds in 2002 and 2003, relying on the low-price strategy and local channel advantages. When foreign brands led by Nokia and Motorola continue to launch higher-performance mobile phones, keep reducing the price of old models, and gradually improve channels, how competitive are domestic mobile phones?

But no matter what happens next year, in the first quarter of this year, China Mobile's market share is only 4 percentage points away from catching up with Nokia, and China Technology's profits have skyrocketed as a result!

Song Weiyang, chairman of Sinotech, and Shen Fuxing, president and CEO, have become well-deserved Chinese technology pioneers. The media always compare Song Weiyang with Mr. Liu of Lenovo, Shen Fuxing and Mr. Yang of Lenovo, and even have the sayings of Southern Song and Northern Willow and Southern Shen and Northern Yang.

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