Kailuan National Mine Park

Kailuan, founded in 1878, was the most successful enterprise in the Westernization Movement. It is a milestone in the Centennial industrial chronicle of China and can be called the living fossil of modern Chinese industry. Three brilliant marks are engraved on the bronze corridor of the China Century Monument in Beijing: "Kaiping coal mine was built in 1881 to produce coal"; "tangxu railway was opened to traffic"; "made in China rocket steam locomotive".

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Self driving information: Beijing Shenyang Expressway, Tangshan Beixia expressway, Tangshan direction straight 25 km, Jianshe Road and Xinhua Road intersection left, Xinhua Road and Station Road intersection right 300 meters left turn, that is Kailuan National Mine Park Tangjin Expressway to Tangxi outer ring, nanhukou highway straight about 14 km, that is Kailuan National Mine Park Changsha Shenzhen Expressway (G25) is about 14km from nanhukou of Tangshan, which is Kailuan National Mine Park. Bus information: take bus No.46 at head office station, get off at Shizhong station of Kailuan, walk 160m eastward to Tangshan station of Kailuan National Mine Park, take bus No.118, get off at National Mine Park Station, walk 300m northward to Kailuan National Mine Park

Kailuan National Mine Park

The construction of Kailuan National Mine Park in Hebei Province started in August 2005, with a total planning area of nearly 700000 square meters. It is divided into two parks for construction. One is to build "Modern Industrial Expo Park in northern China" in area a of Tangshan coal mine, and the other is to build "old Tangshan style town" in the former site of Tangshan Coal Mine storage yard. The two scenic spots are connected by mine owned railway, forming a complete tourism park. There are museums and three sub pavilions (under construction) in the park, covering the generation and origin of coal, collection of ancient coal mining history, geological structure and occurrence of Kailuan coalfield, coal mining process and coal mining history, use of electricity, electrical knowledge and power development history, steam locomotive history and Chinese railway transportation history, underground exploration tour, coal mining collapse knowledge, etc.

Kailuan National Mine Park is one of the first batch of 28 national mine parks approved by the Ministry of land and resources in 2005. It is a new industrial tourism scenic spot led by the government and prepared by enterprises. Relying on the rich mining culture of Kailuan, it integrates tourism, leisure, historical culture and popular science exhibition, and tourism real estate development.

On December 12, 2016, Kailuan National Mine Park was awarded the honorary title of "national tourism system advanced collective" at the "national tourism system advanced collective, labor model and advanced workers commendation conference". This is another national honorary title of Kailuan National Mine Park in 2016.

On December 30, 2016, the national development and Reform Commission released the list of national Red Tourism classic scenic spots, and Kailuan National Mine Park was selected.

In February 2020, in order to pay homage to the majority of medical workers, Tangshan Municipal Bureau of culture, radio, television and tourism issued an initiative to the city's tourist attractions to implement a free visit policy for all medical workers nationwide.

geographical position

Kailuan National Mine Park is located in the central area of Tangshan City, Hebei Province. It is located in the Kailuan Tangshan mining company, which has 136 years of mining history and is known as "the best mine in China". It is a national mine park with modern industrial theme integrating industrial heritage protection, coal culture and modern industrial civilization.

Historical evolution

Kailuan has accumulated a profound cultural heritage for the construction and development of National Mining Park

Kailuan, founded in 1878, is the most successful enterprise in the Westernization Movement. It is a milestone in the Centennial industrial chronicle of China and can be called the living fossil of modern Chinese industry. In the three centuries of historical evolution, Kailuan has not only accumulated rich historical culture, but also left many typical and rare mining relics and historical relics. As the first national enterprise to open up the source of modern road mines in China, three brilliant marks were engraved on the bronze corridor of the China Century Monument in Beijing: "Kaiping coal mine was built in 1881 to produce coal"; "tangxu railway was opened to traffic"; "made in China rocket steam locomotive".

As a result of the development of Kailuan coal mine, Tangshan prospered because of coal and Qinhuangdao built port because of coal, one coal mine supported two cities. She pioneered China's earliest machine mining industry, railway transportation industry and electric power industry, introduced western advanced industrial civilization and production technology, and gave birth to the rise of northern industrial cities. In a sense, this is the starting point of China's early industrialization, the cradle of China's modern industrial civilization, and the first commendable place for the Chinese nation to move from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization Footprints. It can be said that there is no place to replace or compare the rich historical culture accumulated in Kailuan.

Kailuan, after the vicissitudes of the century, has witnessed and covered almost all the contents of the history of China's early industrial development, the history of national humiliation and resistance, the history of labor movement and Party building, the history of new China's construction and development, the history of the working class's hard work and entrepreneurship, and the history of reform and transformation. It can be called a hall of memory for concentrating industrial civilization and a great lesson about the history of China's modern industrial development Tang, a comprehensive textbook of patriotism education, has accumulated profound cultural heritage for the construction and development of Kailuan National Mine Park.

Structure of scenic spots

Kailuan National Mine Park will be built at the end of 2007, completed in October 2008 and opened to the public in September 2009. The whole scenic area is divided into "China Modern Industry Expo Park", "old Tangshan style town" and "Kailuan modern mining industry demonstration park", which is composed of "dragon locomotive tour line".

（1） The main scenic area of Kailuan National Mine Park -- "China Modern Industry Expo Park"

It mainly includes: Kailuan Museum, "China's best mine" sub exhibition hall, "electric power era" sub exhibition hall, underground exploration tour, China Music City, three major industrial relics and other theme scenic spots.

The core attraction of the scenic spot is Kailuan Museum, whose interior exhibition design is led by the famous exhibition expert and Professor Hong Mai en of Tsinghua University. The exhibition theme of Kailuan museum is "black river". The exhibition area is more than 3000 square meters, and the exhibition line is more than 600 meters long. With full and accurate historical materials, rich exhibits, and novel exhibition forms, this paper expounds the generation and origin of coal, as well as the long history of ancient coal mining, records the historical traces of the source of Zhongguo road mine in Kailuan, and reproduces the indelible urban cultural memory of Tangshan, which is thriving because of coal . On display in the museum are the earliest stocks in China - "old stocks of Kaiping Mining Bureau"; the dusty century old "sheep skin masked account book"; the railway track on China's first standard track railway; the record of cross-border litigation of "Kaiping mining right fraud case", as well as 47 pieces of first-class cultural relics, 72 pieces of second-class cultural relics, 326 pieces of third-class cultural relics, and tens of thousands of treasures A close reading of the unique charm of Kailuan's long and rich mining culture.

Around the Kailuan Museum, the "early industrial remains of the Kailuan Tangshan mine", which is composed of "the best mine in China" -- No.1 well of Tangshan mine ", the first standard gauge railway in China -- the origin of tangxu railway, and the earliest railway highway overpass and culvert in China -- Dadao, is listed in the seventh batch of" national key cultural relics protection units ". Next to the Industrial Relics, there are "China's best mine 1878" and "electric power era 1906", two "sub Pavilions", which are independent and echo the main Museum of Kailuan Museum.

"Underground exploration Tour" is an underground landscape tourist area with three functions of experience, exhibition and leisure. From the fourth floor of the main museum, you can take a simulation cage directly to the underground. From the 100 meter "space-time Gallery", you can enter the crisscross ancient roadway ruins with an area of 5000 square meters, experience the evolution process from primitive coal mining to modern coal mining, take a rest in the "underground leisure bar", or take a rest in the "underground leisure bar" China's largest "underground 4D cinema" to watch science fiction films, personally accept mine safety education. You can also take a bus to explore and appreciate the unique charm of mining culture in the unique underground space.

"China Music City" is a unique music art palace with the theme of music training, appreciation and leisure. It is transformed from the old industrial plant community built in the early 20th century. With a total investment of 120 million yuan, it is a highlight of the "top ten cultural industry cluster areas in Hebei Province". It will become a city of charm and fashion leading Tangshan's cultural consumption.

（2） The second phase project is "old Tangshan style town". It is located in the central ecological park of Nanhu city in Tangshan. Adhering to the development concept of "ecological dream, cultural city", the city memory fragments of old Tangshan are integrated and refined to form a characteristic town with three theme areas of "western style", "Southern soil fumigation" and "folk customs", and ingenious integration of cultural landscape and commercial elements, so as to make a lively dialogue in the docking of history and reality, tradition and fashion.

（3） "Kailuan modern mining industry demonstration park". Tangshan Coal Mine B Industrial Park will be built into a large-scale industrial park integrating modern coal mine industrial production and industrial tourism, which will embody the ecological, environmental protection and energy-saving concepts of modern mining industry, and become a modern mining industrial park and a demonstration park of circular economy in China.

Honor of scenic spot

Since its opening, Kailuan National Mine Park has become an exquisite cultural card of Kailuan and Tangshan with its unique cultural charm and brand value, and an important carrier of patriotism and enterprise spirit

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