New Year's Day 2003.

The first trial operation of the maglev train is playing on the TV. Commander Wu of the project said excitedly to the camera lens: "If you haven't taken a maglev car, you won't be able to reach Dashenghai... The maximum speed of the maglev train can reach 450 kilometers per hour. As long as the track is laid, a businessman takes a maglev car from Shenghai in the morning and arrives at the capital in about three hours. After the business negotiations, he will take a car back and eat and rest at Shenghai's home in the evening, which can save a lot of hotel expenses... If you use a maglev car to connect the major cities in the Yangtze River Delta, then the resources in this area can be shared, and Pudong Airport becomes the airport of Linzhou..."

"oh!"

The camera cuts to the screen of the maglev train starting. The maglev tracks are covered with onlookers, and huge cheers burst out.

"We arrived from Puxi early in the morning, just like seeing what a maglev 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 a business trip. In order to take a maglev car, I deliberately delayed the return time for a few days. Unfortunately, I still couldn't buy a ticket..."

Lin Zhuoyun was quite moved when she watched the TV and said to Song Weiyang: "Honey, let's try it one day, the maglev looks so advanced."

"Okay, I'll ask someone to book a ticket." 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 sucking his mouth and sucking the air to smell the milk.

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

"There are scalpers." Song Weiyang smiled.

The ordinary ticket for 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 ticket price is halved. However, it is only January 1, and people who want to try it out have already booked all the tickets for January 5. The 150 yuan denomination tickets were speculated to thousands of yuan by scalpers. Even so, scalpers are in short supply.

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

In other words, some people spend thousands of yuan to buy round-trip tickets. Putting aside the time when they stayed in the middle of the station, the round-trip journey was already over 15 minutes. This was the thousands of yuan in 2003. It can be seen that those who can afford scalpers are all local tycoons who don’t use money as money. Some people even come here specifically from other places to buy scalpers tickets to experience the magnetic levitation train. This thing has been a tourist-oriented nature from the beginning, rather than a practical means of transportation.

This is the world's first maglev car that is truly commercially available. Not to mention anything else, just the word "world's number one" can make the whole country jubilant from top to bottom.

The "magnetic levitation vehicle" itself seems sci-fi just by listening to the name.

Lin Zhuoyun archived the manuscripts and sent them to her assistant for use tomorrow, and went online to wander around. She found that there were discussions on the Internet everywhere, and she couldn't help but join the ranks, discussing when the maglev car could be promoted nationwide.

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

In 2003, the first day of joy was spent like this. Song Weiyang still vaguely remembered that in a certain year and month of his previous life, he was in Chengdu in 2003, and suddenly the entire hotel was blocked because a suspected SARS patient appeared in the hotel.

Will you report to the government in advance now?

Song Weiyang only knew that the source of the infection seemed to be in Guangdong Province, and he had no impression of other details. He didn't know where to start if he wanted to warn him. In fact, the epidemic had been around for more than a month, but doctors still treated it as ordinary pneumonia to treat 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 had just been reborn now, he could have stockpiled mung beans, isatis roots, vinegar and other things in advance, but he has become the richest man and has nothing to do.

The so-called hardships have made the country prosperous. Since the outbreak of SARS, China has successively issued the "Regulations on the Provision of Emergency in Public Health Emergency", "National General Emergency Plan for Public Health Emergency", "National Emergency Plan for Public Health Emergency", "National Emergency Plan for Public Health Emergency", "Guidelines for the Preparation of Emergency Plans for Community (Towntown) in Public Health Emergency Plans"... There are a lot of relevant regulations and regulations, which are just a few of them. China has thus established the most comprehensive and efficient health and epidemic prevention system in the world.

None of them is the only one in the world, and only China can do this.

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

Take Dong Ge for example. During the SARS period, there was no business and no few customers were seen in a month. Dong Ge, who was too lazy to even pull broadband network cables, could only sell electronic products on major forums with a try-out mentality. The result surprised him very much. Many netizens even remembered Dong Ge's sales in Zhongguancun and took the initiative to help him post and promote it. The number of online orders that month quickly exceeded the monthly sales of physical stores before SARS. JD.com began to transform into e-commerce.

Ma Xiaoyun also encountered similar situations. Alibaba's b2b business developed explosively during the SARS period. Before SARS had passed, Ma Xiaoyun took advantage of the situation to launch Taobao and began to get involved in the b2c model since then. The website opened with a good start.

There is also a text message business. During SARS, you can't go out at will. It's expensive to surf the Internet and make phone calls, and most people don't have computers. Then just send text messages. The text message business volume of several major operators has increased sharply. SMS has become a fashionable way of communication, and even the trend of forwarding mode is popular. The most popular forwarding text message content at that time was: "If you are at work now, 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, you must be a martyr."

Even the powerful general Dian Wei became popular, and someone made up a random passage of "The Book of Wei in the Three Kingdoms": "Taizu (Cao Cao) conquered Jingzhou, and arrived in Wan, Zhang Xiu embarked on surrender... Xiu rebelled and attacked Taizu's camp. Taizu went out to fight unfavorably, and the light cavalry was taken away. (Dian) Wei fought in the gate, and the thief could not enter... Taizu retreated to Wuyin, and heard that Dian Wei died, so she burst into tears. During the recruitment, he took the funeral and cried to him, saying, "It's SARS, my life is over."

This is probably the earliest high-end joker.

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New Year's Day.

Shenzhou mp3 is quietly released and supports both mp3 and WMA formats. It is the third portable player in the world that supports WMA format. Unfortunately, there are very few buyers, one is because the price is very expensive, and the other is because I don’t know where to download the songs after I bought them.

What made Song Weiyang and Shen Fuxing speechless was that the sales of Shenzhou mp3 did not start to rise sharply until the SARS period.

Many young people who are inconvenient to go out look through computer magazines and see advertisements for Shenzhou mp3, so they call or send an email to order and then send the goods, and pay the postage for their own payment.

At the same time, two other domestic brands of MP3 have also been released, but their sales still cannot keep up with the Shenzhou MP3. Because only the Shenzhou machine supports the WMA format, let alone the MP3 format is more vital. There is a reason why people are optimistic about WMA at this time: under the same sound quality, the WMA file occupies only half of the MP3 file, and the storage space of the machine at this time is very small, which is equivalent to twice the number of songs you can store. Moreover, 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 of mp3 are temporarily low because the market is still in the pioneering stage.

However, the sales of China's computers are gratifying. From New Year's Day to Spring Festival, China's new computer ownership has fallen to 55.8% if we only look at domestic brands, and China's share has risen to 26.1%. If foreign brands are included, no matter Lenovo, Shenzhou, TCL, and Great Wall, everyone's market share is soaring, and foreign brands are being frantically seized by domestic products.

The same situation occurs in the mobile phone market, and domestic mobile phones are confused by 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 Sony's road to "other brands". The market share of Shenzhou mobile phones increased to 15.3%, and the market share of Bodai mobile phones increased to 9.6%.

The 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 is Coming".

Some experts even speculate based on the data from the past two years that Nokia will follow in the footsteps of Esco Escort and will eventually be abandoned by Chinese consumers. No one could have expected that Nokia will make a comeback in another year, making the Chinese mobile phone market dim. And domestic mobile phones, which rose in 2003, suddenly became sluggish in 2004, with domestic mobile phone brands dying and blocking the Chinese mobile phone market.

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 purchase modules, outsourcing mobile phone solutions, outsourcing the appearance design, and ask someone to produce OEM, and only need to do sales.

Domestic mobile phones can make rapid progress in 2002 and 2003 because of their low-price strategies and local channel advantages. When foreign brands led by Nokia and Motorola continue to launch higher-performance mobile phones, continuously reduce the price of old models, and gradually improve channels, what competitiveness does domestic mobile phones have?

But no matter what next year, in the first quarter of this year, the market share of Shenzhou Mobile Phones was only 4 percentage points away from catching up with Nokia, and Shenzhou Technology's profits soared!

Song Weiyang, chairman of Shenzhou Technology, president and CEO Shen Fuxing, has become a well-deserved pioneer of Chinese technology. The media always compares Song Weiyang with Lenovo Liu, and compares Shen Fuxing with Lenovo Yang, and even has the saying "Northern Song Beiliu" and "Northern Shen Beiyang".
Chapter completed!