New Year's Day, 2003.

The TV was playing the picture of the first trial operation of the maglev train, and the commander-in-chief of the project, Wu, looked at the camera lens and said very excitedly: "If you haven't taken a maglev car, you won't have been to Dashenghai...... The maximum speed of the maglev train can reach 450 kilometers per hour, as long as the track is paved, a businessman can take the maglev car from Shenghai in the morning, and it only takes about three hours to arrive in the capital. After the business negotiations, you can take the car back and eat and rest at Shenghai's home in the evening, which can also save a lot of hotel expenses...... If the major cities in the Yangtze River Delta are connected by maglev vehicles, then the resources of this region can be shared, and Pudong Airport will become the airport of Linzhou......"

"Oh!"

The camera cuts to the start of the maglev train, and the onlookers on both sides of the maglev track suddenly erupt into huge cheers.

"We came from Puxi early in the morning to see what a maglev 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 on a business trip, and I deliberately postponed my return trip for a few days in order to take a maglev car. It's a pity that I still can't buy tickets......"

Lin Zhuoyun looked at the TV and was quite moved, and said to Song Weiyang: "Husband, let's try it one day, the maglev looks so advanced." ”

"Okay, I'll get people to book tickets. Song Weiyang patted Xiao Liuzi's vest, the unlucky child was lying on his father's legs, his eyes seemed to be closed, and he kept pursing his mouth to suck the air and taste the milk.

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

"There are scalpers. Song Weiyang said with a smile.

The ordinary ticket for the maglev car is 150 yuan, and the VIP ticket is 300 yuan, which is the price of a round trip, and the one-way ticket price is halved. However, it is only January 1 now, and the people who want to try it have already booked all the tickets for January 5, and the tickets with a face value of 150 yuan have been fried to thousands of yuan by scalpers, and even so scalpers are in short supply.

The most nonsense is that the maglev route is only 33 kilometers (in fact, less than 30 kilometers), and the train can travel at a speed of up to 450 kilometers per hour.

That is to say, some people spend thousands of yuan to buy a round-trip ticket, and aside from the time spent at the stop, the round-trip journey will end in 15 minutes. This is thousands of yuan in 2003, and it can be seen that those who can afford scalper tickets are local tyrants who don't use money as money. There are even people who come by plane from other places to buy scalper tickets to experience the maglev train, which is a sightseeing nature from the beginning, rather than a practical means of transportation.

This is the world's first truly commercial maglev car, not to mention anything else, only the words "world's first" can make the whole country jubilant from top to bottom.

And the "maglev car" itself, just listening to the name, looks sci-fi.

Lin Zhuoyun archived the edited manuscript and sent it to the assistant to 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 but join the ranks, discussing when maglev vehicles would be promoted to the whole country.

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

The year 2003, which was full of disasters and difficulties, was the first day of joy. Song Weiyang vaguely remembers that in his previous life, in 2003, he was talking about business in Rongcheng, and suddenly the entire hotel was locked down because there was a suspected SARS patient in the hotel.

Do you 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 memory of other details, and he didn't know where to start if he wanted to give an early warning. In fact, at this time, the epidemic has been appearing for more than a month, but doctors still treat it as ordinary pneumonia - Song Weiyang always thought that SARS appeared around the Spring Festival, but in fact, the outbreak occurred in the winter of the previous year.

If Song Weiyang had only been reborn now, he would have been able to stock up on mung beans, banlan roots, dried vinegar and the like in advance, but he had nothing to do as the richest man at all.

Since the outbreak of SARS, China has successively promulgated the Regulations on Emergency Response to Public Health Emergencies, the National Overall Emergency Plan for Public Emergencies, the National Emergency Plan for Public Health Emergencies, the National Emergency Plan for Medical and Health Rescue for Public Emergencies, and the Guidelines for the Preparation of Community (Township) Emergency Plans for Public Health Emergencies...... These are just a few of the many regulations that have led to China's establishment of the world's most comprehensive and efficient health and epidemic prevention system.

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

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

Take Dongge as an example, during the SARS period, there was no business at all, and I couldn't see a few customers a month. Dongge, who is not even too lazy to pull broadband network cables, can only hold the mentality of giving it a try and promote electronic products in major forums. The result surprised him very much, and there were still many netizens who remembered that Dong Ge was selling discs in Zhongguancun back then, and took the initiative to help him post for promotion, and the number of online orders that month soon exceeded the monthly sales of his physical store before SARS. JD.com began to transform into e-commerce.

Also in a similar situation is Ma Xiaoyun, Alibaba's B2B business, which exploded during the SARS epidemic. Before SARS passed, Ma Xiaoyun took advantage of the trend to launch Taobao, and since then he has begun to get involved in the B2C model, and the website has made a good start as soon as it opened.

In addition, there is the SMS service, you can't go out at will during the SARS period, Internet access and phone calls are expensive, and most people don't have computers. Then send text messages, the volume of SMS business of several major operators has soared, and SMS has become a fashionable way of communication, and even began to become popular in the case of nothing to forward mode, and the most popular forward SMS content at that time was: "If you are at work now, you are a soldier." If you're shopping right now, you're 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 blindly made up a paragraph of "Three Kingdoms: Book of Wei": "Taizu (Cao Cao) conquered Jingzhou, Zhiwan, and Zhang Xiu surrendered...... Embroidered against the Taizu camp. Taizu was unfavorable in battle, and the light cavalry led him away. Wei fights in the door, and thieves are not allowed to enter...... Taizu retreated to Wuyin, and Wen Dian Wei died, for runny nose. Raise money to take his funeral, personally cry, said: 'SARS also, my life is over'!"

This is probably the earliest high-end joker.

……

New Year's Day.

Shenzhou MP3 has quietly come out, supporting both MP3 and WMA formats, which is the third portable player in the world to support WMA format. Unfortunately, there are very few buyers, one is because the price is very expensive, and the other is because they don't know where to download the song after buying it.

What made Song Weiyang and Shen Fuxing speechless was that the sales of Shenzhou MP3 did not begin to soar until the SARS period.

Many young people who are inconvenient to go out, flipping through computer magazines, see the advertisement of Shenzhou MP3, so they call or send an email to order-first remittance before delivery, and pay for the postage.

At the same time, two other domestic brands of MP3 also came out, but the sales still can't catch up with the Shenzhou MP3. Because only Shenzhou's machine supports WMA format, not to mention that MP3 format is more vigorous, there is a reason why people are optimistic about WMA at this time: under the same sound quality, WMA files occupy only half of the space of MP3 files, and the storage space of the machine at this time is very small, which is equivalent to the number of songs that can be stored twice. And the sound quality of the WMA is closer to that of a CD, and it sounds more pleasant to the ear (this doesn't matter, only professionals can hear it).

Of course, regardless of the brand, the sales of MP3 are very low for the time being, because the market is still in the development period.

From New Year's Day to the Spring Festival, China's new computer ownership, only looking at domestic brands, Lenovo's share has fallen to 55.8%, and Shenzhou's share has risen to 26.1%. If foreign brands are also counted, whether it is Lenovo, Shenzhou, TCL, or Great Wall, everyone's market share is soaring, and foreign brands are being frantically seized by domestic products.

The same situation appears in the mobile phone market, and domestic mobile phones have forced foreign brands to be confused!

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 never returned on the road of "other brands". The market share of Shenzhou mobile phone increased to 15.3%, and the market share of Bird mobile phone 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 that "the year of domestic mobile phones has arrived".

Some experts even speculate that Nokia will follow in the footsteps of love and will eventually be abandoned by Chinese consumers based on the data of the past two years. No one could have predicted that Nokia would make a comeback in another year, making the Chinese mobile phone market dark. In 2003, the domestic mobile phone that rose in an all-round way suddenly languished in 2004, and the domestic mobile phone brand died a large piece.

The reason is that domestic brands do not have independent research and development capabilities, or they do not care about independent research and development at all. Many domestic mobile phone manufacturers even only buy modules, mobile phone scheme outsourcing, appearance design outsourcing, and production OEM, and they only need to do sales.

Domestic mobile phones were able to grow 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, continue to reduce the price of old models, and gradually improve the channel, what is the competitiveness of domestic mobile phones?

But no matter what happens next year, in the first quarter of this year, the market share of Shenzhou mobile phones is only 4 percentage points away from catching up with Nokia, and the profits of Shenzhou Technology have skyrocketed!

Song Weiyang, Chairman of China Technology, and Shen Fuxing, President and CEO of Shenzhou Technology, have become well-deserved pioneers of Chinese science and technology. The media always compares Song Weiyang with Lenovo Liu, Shen Fuxing and Lenovo Yang, and even has the sayings of "Southern Song Beiliu" and "Southern Shen Beiyang".

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