Chapter 3474: Epoch-making

Time entered March, and the snow in Baozhou City began to melt. The entire Baozhou land regained its vitality; the willow trees by the river sprouted buds, the grass on the prairie turned green, and the flowers turned red.

Baozhou City's development momentum this year showed no signs of slowing down. The investment attraction situation for the four major industrial parks was quite good, with enterprises continuously arriving to invest and build factories. The territory of these four parks had also expanded significantly, which accelerated the urbanization process of Baozhou City.

This made Baozhou City's economy very vibrant and highly attractive to talent. Many university graduates from other provinces were willing to settle and work in Baozhou City because there were many large enterprises here, many of which were high-tech industries. These graduates could also find satisfying jobs here.

The wind power plant in Baozhou City had already entered the construction stage. On that sea of prairie flowers in the northern suburbs of Yinshan County, huge windmills were erected. The strong winds on the prairie blew the blades, making them whir, and this rotational energy was converted into electrical energy, entering the power grid and being transmitted to thousands of households.

The wind power plant was one of the key investments in Baozhou City this year. In fact, the investment was not huge, but its significance was profound. It marked the official entry of Baozhou City's electricity usage into the new energy era, and Baozhou City would continue to increase investment in new energy in the future.

Amidst such a flourishing momentum, Hanhai Technology held another press conference, stating that there was major news to announce. This press conference attracted many domestic and foreign media outlets, as Hanhai Technology had made frequent major moves in recent years, and every announcement was earth-shattering news.

Since Hanhai Technology was being so solemn about this press conference, it must be another explosive piece of news. No one wanted to miss such a moment; if any media outlet missed an explosive moment, wouldn't they regret it to death?

Thus, two days before the press conference, domestic and foreign media reporters gathered at the Hou Family Group's grand hotel in Baozhou. This was the venue for the Hanhai Technology press conference and also the most luxurious five-star hotel in Baozhou City. The era when the Baozhou Hotel was the most luxurious in Baozhou had already become history.

Since the Hanhai Technology press conference was being held here, these media outlets naturally had to spend a fortune to book rooms at this hotel. This could be considered "being close to the water to get the moonlight first," even if it didn't necessarily have any substantive effect.

Over these two days, these media outlets racked their brains, trying to find out what explosive news Hanhai Technology was going to announce. However, they couldn't find out anything. For Hanhai Technology, this news was the biggest secret; even very few people inside Hanhai Technology knew about it, and those who did were currently impossible to find.

Therefore, they couldn't find out what news Hanhai Technology was going to release at all. However, the more this was the case, the more they were convinced that the news Hanhai Technology was about to release must be very significant. They still racked their brains to inquire, which heated up the press conference before it even began.

Hanhai Technology also announced that this press conference would be broadcast live in its entirety by TV and the Hanhai Network. Since the press conference was scheduled for 9:00 AM on Sunday, March 6th, it was expected that a very large number of people would watch the live broadcast.

This was also an unprecedented feat. Previously, basically no enterprise had been able to have TV broadcast their press conference in its entirety, but Hanhai Technology had achieved this, which further whetted everyone's appetite to see what news they were going to release.

The surprises Hanhai Technology had brought everyone before were simply too many. Many of their internet products were epoch-making products, and now they were basically products used by internet users nationwide. Now, when they surfed the internet, socialized, worked, shopped online, used security antivirus software, or played games, they basically couldn't do without Hanhai Technology's products.

What kind of surprise would Hanhai Technology bring everyone this time? It must surely be a huge surprise; otherwise, they wouldn't be acting so mysterious. In the past, when they released new products, they hadn't been this mysterious.

March 6th arrived. On this day, the conference hall on the first floor of the Hou Family Grand Hotel, which could accommodate thousands of people, was packed. All kinds of cameras were aimed at the podium, and a huge banner hung above it—Hanhai Technology New Product Launch.

The words written on this banner were simple, without any fancy elements. Yet, these few words attracted so many media reporters here. This had to be called a miracle, and it was also Hanhai Technology's appeal, accumulated through the reputation Hanhai Technology had built over these years.

Fifteen minutes before nine o'clock, the leaders of Baozhou City, led by Baozhou Municipal Party Committee Secretary Zhao Yichen, walked into the venue, beaming with joy, accompanied by several senior executives of Hanhai Technology. They sat down in the first row, which was reserved specifically for them. Everyone began to stir; they knew that today's main event was about to begin.

Reporters throughout the venue were whispering to each other. A special atmosphere permeated the venue, an atmosphere composed of excitement, anticipation, and tension. With Hanhai Technology putting on such a big show today, they should be releasing news that would shock the whole world.

Time passed second by second. Finally, it reached nine o'clock. Hanhai Technology Chairman Hou Wenchang walked onto the podium. He was wearing a simple T-shirt and a pair of jeans, looking very young and sunny. At a glance, he didn't look like the head of a company that led China's IT industry at all.

However, no one dared to underestimate him. It was precisely this young man who had profoundly changed China's internet world over these years. The products he launched and the creative ideas he had were still things countless companies wanted to learn from and hoped to surpass even now.

However, there is a saying: "Always being imitated, never being surpassed." In terms of internet creativity and products, even the most powerful IT companies in the world couldn't compare to Hanhai Technology and could only eat their dust. Those companies came up with ideas after much painstaking effort, only to find that Hanhai Technology had already launched such products long ago, and they were very mature.

The mood of those companies at that time was hard to imagine. It could be said that Hanhai Technology was a great company, but it was also a cruel company. They walked almost all the paths, leaving many IT companies that should have been brilliant with nowhere to go, never to have their past glory again.

Seeing Hou Wenchang walk onto the stage, everyone held their breath for that moment. They couldn't help but feel nervous; they didn't know what surprises Hou Wenchang would bring them today, and they all had huge expectations.

Hou Wenchang scanned everyone off the stage and smiled, "Welcome to all the guests today. Thank you for coming to attend Hanhai Technology's new product launch. However, you will definitely not regret coming to this new product launch, because the product Hanhai Technology is releasing today is an epoch-making product!"

With a "Boom," the audience stirred. Everyone was whispering to each other with excitement on their faces. What kind of stunning product could be called epoch-making by Hou Wenchang?

Hou Wenchang didn't say anything more. He smiled and took something out of the back pocket of his jeans. Only those sitting in the front row and those with good eyesight could see that this seemed to be a phone. But this was a strange phone. When Hou Wenchang faced them with the front, they saw that this phone seemed to have no buttons?

How should a phone without buttons be used? How do you dial a phone? Or is this not a phone? Then what on earth is it? Except for Su Xinghui, everyone at the scene had a big question in their hearts.

At the same time Hou Wenchang took out the phone, the big screen on the podium also lit up. Hou Wenchang's appearance holding the phone appeared on the big screen, allowing even those sitting in the last row to clearly see what the phone in Hou Wenchang's hand looked like.

Hou Wenchang's words were transmitted to the entire hall through the microphone, and also to the whole country and even the whole world through the live broadcast of TV and the Hanhai Network: "Everyone must be very curious about what I am holding in my hand, right? Now I will reveal the answer: this is a phone, a smartphone."

The entire hall exclaimed. This was indeed a phone, but why didn't it have buttons? Everyone vaguely felt that this might really be an epoch-making product, because it was completely different from almost all phones today. Since it was a product from Hanhai Technology, it must be a good product.

Hanhai Technology's major moves one after another over these years had filled everyone with confidence, feeling that anything produced by Hanhai must be a fine product.

Hou Wenchang began to operate the phone. He pressed the power button on the side, and the phone screen lit up instantly. The phone's screensaver was a blue ocean, looking very realistic and very comfortable, especially this 4.5-inch screen, which was something everyone had never seen before.

Just this screensaver alone made everyone gasp. Can a phone be made like this? This is too beautiful!

Hou Wenchang's right index finger swiped gently across the screen, and the phone was unlocked. The applications on the phone were revealed to the world for the first time.

This swipe by Hou Wenchang left almost everyone in the world dumbfounded. This swipe of his was also used by many media outlets as the headline photo for today, and they unanimously gave this photo a name—Epoch-making!