The Heralds of a New Era

Did anyone still not know that you could even buy rockets in the Douyin Livestream?

After all five rockets were successfully sold, Douyin E-commerce became increasingly famous. Douyin also received a wave of traffic from it, and its user base skyrocketed.

The media paid considerable attention to this as well, reporting several related stories in succession.

Whether it was hype or a gimmick, Douyin had achieved its goal, and Douyin E-commerce's sales index continued to rise.

Someone had once asked how long it would take for Pintuang to threaten Taobao if it entered the e-commerce industry.

Some said one year.

Honestly, if it had been anyone else, saying that they could threaten Taobao within ten years would have been bragging. So one year was actually praise.

But the real result was that after Pintuang entered e-commerce, it took less than half a year to threaten Taobao.

And judging from the sales figures circulating internally, Douyin E-commerce's sales index in December—the month when the rockets were sold—had increased by 583 percent year-on-year compared with the beta-testing period.

Some said that this growth rate was even faster than the rockets Douyin had sold.

As 2016 drew to a close, another piece of news arrived and was given a major traffic push by Douyin.

The Kuaizhou-1A that had originally been purchased online was successfully launched, carrying a Jilin-1 03 Star into space and placing it in its predetermined orbit.

The image of the rocket igniting and launching toward the heavens was crystal clear, and the humming sound in the video was equally awe-inspiring.

This was because in recent years, film and television works about "The Rise of Great Nations" had all enjoyed using rocket launches as their opening shots. So the moment the image appeared, many netizens could not help but have their