That year in 1999, Wang Jianlin, Li Yanhong, Jack Ma... and their stories

　　16 years ago, the smog in Beijing was not that arrogant. On that New Year's Eve, all the details were as clear as knife marks.

　　The old bus was breathing heavily, and took my brothers and I to Tiananmen Square for the New Year, bid farewell to 1999, and welcomed the first dawn of the new century.

　　The sky in Beijing has been gloomy for several months, so before the National Day military parade, shells need to be fired to disperse the rain clouds.

　　This ancient city is just showing its face and bid farewell to its past.

　　People were surrounded by heads in Tiananmen Square, and the girl passing by was holding a Sony Walkman. Zhang Xinzhe's "Love is One Word" leaked from his headphones, which was the most popular melody that year.

　　In the distant Hong Kong, Faye Wong, wearing a black leather jacket, was singing "Postman" and "The World".

　　Anita Mui smiled like a flower on the sidelines, and was surrounded by Leslie Cheung with gentle eyes.

　　Under the wall of the Beijing Film Studio, 9.9 kilometers away from Tiananmen Square, Wang Baoqiang, who had just entered Beijing, was upset that he could not get the extra lunch box. In the bar not far away, Huang Bo was singing with laughter and singing, with the sound of Jiaodong sea breeze.

　　Guo Degang has not yet begun his legend in Dashilan on the south side of the square.

　　On the Mid-Autumn Festival a few months ago, he took mooncakes and fruits to meet his future father-in-law and mother-in-law, but the gift was thrown out of the door and warned him not to visit again. He gritted his silver teeth and took a car into Beijing, swearing to make a name for himself.

　　The frustrated person is more than just him.

　　In Yunnan, 73-year-old Chu Shijian spent the last day of 1999 in prison. This year, he was sentenced to life.

　　The old man fell asleep in the night, wondering if there were any golden oranges in his dream.

　　In Dalian, a few days before New Year's Day, Wang Jianlin had just resold the Dalian Wanda team and base, and the businessman he took over was Xu Ming. On the day when the name was changed, Wang Jianlin said to the people around him, "I'm really unwilling to accept it."

　　The team's number one striker Hao Haidong was banned by the Football Association for spitting for one year that year, and his shoehorn's face was full of ridiculous sneer.

　　In 1999, many stories began this year.

　　In Hangzhou, Room 202, Unit 1, Building 16, Fengheyuan, Lakeside Garden, Jack Ma told his 18 Luohan that we want to build a world-renowned e-commerce company, and then said, "Now each of you leaves some money for meals and take out all the remaining money."

　　In Shanghai, Chen Tianqiao borrowed 500,000 yuan from others and started Shanda Company. The company rented three bedrooms and one living room, with only six employees, including his newlywed wife and brother-in-law.

　　In Beijing, on the eve of New Year's Day, Liu Qiangdong held an annual meeting at the Jiutoubi Hotel in Beijing, with only more than ten employees off the stage. Liu Qiangdong imagined his new year's goal in Mandarin in his unique dialect: Let's hire a custodian next year, of course, this will only be achieved by moving to a capital room.

　　That year, he had a counter less than 4 square meters in the newly opened Hailong Building. His main business was to engrave CDs and a fool-style multimedia system.

　　There were crowds of people in Tiananmen Square and all traffic around was interrupted.

　　The same scene also happened in Shenzhen, where employees of a small company named Tencent went out for dinner together, but were blocked by the crowd of people who were welcoming the millennium and could not move.

　　Ma Huateng was not listed. That night, due to the "thousand-year insect", there was a small problem with OICQ. The company was the only customer service and he successfully comforted all users.

　　He is actually very experienced. At the beginning, no one chatted with OICQ, so Ma Huateng wanted to change the girl's avatar and go to chat with him.

　　The good man Zhang Chaoyang was the protagonist of that era. In July 1999, he was selected as the cover character of "Asia Weekly". On the New Year's Day of the Millennium, he delivered a speech at Yuelu Academy and was broadcast live on Hunan Satellite TV.

　　On the day Zhang Chaoyang's speech, a young man named Robin Li rented two rooms at the Peking University Resources Hotel, one as a bedroom and the other as an office. Everyone sat cross-legged on the bed to discuss the prototype of Baidu.

　　Some foreshadowings have been buried for many years. On the New Year's Eve of the Millennium, Liu Zhenyun came to Feng Xiaogang's house and the two drank all the beer in the refrigerator.

　　Liu Zhenyun said, "I handed over "Review 1942" to my brother. In this matter, I am willing to advance and retreat with you."

　　The national basketball team recruited a tall man named Yao Ming, the national track and field team recruited a sparring coach named Liu Xiang, and the Italian Modena Club recruited a head coach named Lang Ping. The iron hammer face was as deep as water, and a year later, he led the team to the top of Europe.

　　In Taiwan, in the cabin of Alpha Records, a newcomer with a baseball cap covering his face wrote 50 songs behind closed doors and ate two boxes of instant noodles.

　　In November 2000, he released his first record. His name is Jay Chou, and that record is called "JAY".

　　In Chengdu the same year, high school student Li Yuchun wrote an essay, which said, "When I really grow up, I will find my own way of expression."

　　That night in Tiananmen Square, a crowd of carnival flocked from the square to Dongdan Xidan and Wangfujing, and finally rushed back to the square to wait for the flag to be raised.

　　Between the trouble and fatigue, the sky finally broke through dawn, the loud national anthem sounded, the crowd was solemn, and some people were crying.

　　The millennium finally came in panic and messy.

　　That year, mobile phones were not popular, and everyone’s watch proofreading was not unified. As the New Year’s Eve approached, there were multiple versions of the countdown in the square. Finally, cheers conceal the embarrassment, and the new century arrives in chaos.

　　No one can predict what will happen in the next sixteen years. Whether it is the Shenzhou or the Olympics, whether it is the SARS or the earthquake, we are all punctuation points in the face of the great era.

　　Many things that have been experienced in this half century are unexpected. Some things open grandly, but end up being a farce; some things open in comedy, but end up becoming tragedy. In the experience of sadness and joy, I reached the end of the 20th century. The opening scenes of gongs and drums, the ending songs have now gone with the wind, only that gentle sigh lives in my heart.

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