Don’t stay home in the crisp autumn weather. Come and learn about the industrial tourism at the doorstep of Hebei people!

On August 22, Hebei Province’s first industrial culture and industrial tourism seminar and training session opened in Qinhuangdao. This event focused on “excavating and promoting Hebei Province’s excellent industrial culture, strengthening industrial heritage protection, and how to develop industrial tourism. "Conduct academic seminars and training on the theme. So, what is industrial tourism? What are the national industrial tourism demonstration bases in Hebei? The industry in your hometown is transforming and tourism is upgrading. Do you know all these good industrial tourism destinations opening at your doorstep?

●What is industrial tourism?

In order to adapt to the needs of tourists for industrial tourism and strengthen guidance on industrial tourism, on December 1, 2017, the "National Industrial Tourism Demonstration Base Specification and Evaluation" was officially released, which included industrial tourism, etc. Clear definitions of terms are provided.

>>Industrial tourism

Tourism that uses operating factories, enterprises, projects, etc. as the main attractions to carry out visits, tours, experiences, shopping and other activities.

Enterprises or enterprise clusters that provide necessary tourism facilities and services, are suitable for organizing and carrying out industrial tourism activities, and have a certain demonstration and leading role in the development of industrial tourism.

It is an industrial tourism demonstration base that provides high-level tourism facilities and services, represents the highest level of domestic industrial tourism development, and has a strong demonstration and leadership role in the development of national industrial tourism.

>>Industrial Heritage

Buildings and structures built for industrial activity, the craftsmanship and tools incorporated in such buildings and structures, and the towns in which such buildings and structures are located and landscape, and the various material and non-material manifestations associated with it.

A tourist area that effectively protects, inherits and develops industrial heritage, provides higher-level tourism facilities and services, and plays a strong role in demonstrating and leading national industrial heritage tourism.

●These good places for industrial tourism are worth collecting!

Kailuan National Mine Park. (Information film) Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Shiyao

The national AAAA-level tourist attraction was prepared by the Kailuan Group, which has the reputation of "the living fossil of China's coal industry". It is a big classroom that tells the history of China's modern industrial development. .

The park is composed of three major sections: the Mining Culture Expo Area, the "National Security" Site Sightseeing Area, and the Fashion Culture and Leisure Area, including the Kailuan Museum Main Hall, Underground Exploration Tour, China's Best Mine 1878, and the Electricity Era. 1906, Steam Locomotive Sightseeing Park, China Railway Source Museum and a series of exhibition halls and scenic spots. The museum contains 48 pieces of national first-class cultural relics and tens of thousands of collection treasures. The famous collections include the earliest surviving old stock of Kaiping Mining Bureau in China, the breathtaking large sheepskin-covered account book of more than a thousand volumes, and China's first accurate article. Railroad rails and other precious cultural relics.

Visitors can take the elevator from the fourth floor of the museum directly to the ancient tunnel underground to experience a mysterious, exciting and fun "underground exploration tour". The newly completed "Kailuan Steam Locomotive Sightseeing Park" includes: the China Railway Origin Museum, which tells the story of steam locomotives and the past and present of China's railways; a steam locomotive exhibition hall displaying the "driveable simulation dragon locomotive" recently imitated by Kailuan workers; The ancient Tangshan Old Railway Station (reconstructed) with a Chinese and Western architectural style; the Tangshan-Xu Railway Landscape Overpass and other attractions and facilities.

It is a national AAAA tourist attraction. Currently, the scenic spot covers the country’s first yogurt culture center, ecological sightseeing ranch, national dairy research and development center, industrial sightseeing production line and tourist center and other special tourist projects, with a total investment of nearly 1.2 billion. Yuan, with an annual tourist reception of 520,000, it has become a well-known industrial tourism park in North China.

Through the interactive visiting experience, tourists can not only get close contact with modern breeding industry and food processing industry, and witness the production process of assured quality products with their own eyes, but also experience life through vivid and three-dimensional audio, light, electricity, etc. Experience the time-honored dairy culture with modern scientific and technological means.

Parents take their children to admire palace lanterns at the Gaocheng Palace Lantern Museum in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province. (Information film) Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Zhan Xincheng)

A museum with the theme of palace lantern culture covers an area of ??more than 6,000 square meters.

The Palace Lantern Museum integrates Gaocheng palace lanterns as a cultural industry and tourism, forming a palace lantern industry production group integrating scientific research, production, sales, foreign trade and exhibitions. At the same time, relying on the "Gaocheng palace lanterns" The "City Palace Lantern Museum" has formed the "Palace Lantern Cultural Tour" and has become an industrial tourism project promoted by the Hebei Province and Shijiazhuang Municipal Tourism Bureau. Tourists can visit the palace lantern production workshop, make palace lanterns with their own hands, and experience the palace lantern culture.

In 2005, it was approved by the National Tourism Administration as one of the first industrial tourism demonstration sites in the country. "Old" refers to its long production history; "white" refers to the clear and transparent body of the wine; "dry" refers to the fact that no moisture is left after burning with fire, that is, pure. These three words accurately summarize the characteristics of Hengshui Laobaigan Wine.

In the brewing workshop, visitors can watch how workers cool down, ferment, and distill the steamed northeastern high-quality red sorghum into gurgling old white dry puree. Tens of thousands of 1,000-liter pottery jars The earth jars are arranged in order, which is spectacular.

The 22 assembly lines in the packaging workshop use the most advanced inkjet printers in the world and the most advanced canning machines in China. More than a dozen processes are completed in one go. Amidst the aroma of wine, the strong contrast between the inheritance of ancient skills and modern advanced technology gives people a sense of Enjoy the beauty of labor.

A national AAA-level tourist attraction, Delong Steel Cultural Park relies on the production base of Delong Steel Co., Ltd. The park is equipped with real-life tours of modern steel production processes, a steel culture and leisure experience area (Delong Steel Museum), a deformation King Kong Park, etc., and are currently building steelmaking production themed experience, youth outdoor activity camps, real-life safety education and other tourist projects. It is a classic industrial theme scenic spot that integrates clean production, popular science education, cultural experience, and fun tours.

Among them, the Delong Steel Museum covers an area of ??1,720 square meters. The exhibition hall is divided into 10 exhibition areas such as the preface hall, the history of steel smelting, steel and people, and also has coffee shops, book bars and other leisure areas. The museum comprehensively displays the development history of world steel, Chinese steel and Xingtai steel through physical objects, models, pictures and audio-visual equipment such as sound, light and electricity, and vividly displays the steel production process.

The Qinhuangdao "Qinlu Shanhai" tourist train has completed its operation test on the Shanhai Tourism Railway. Photo by reporter Zhao Yonghui

The Shanhai Tourism Railway was formerly the Qinhuangdao Local Railway built in 1915. It starts from the century-old wharf of Hebei Port Group and ends at Banchangyu Scenic Area. The total length of the line is 41.2 kilometers. Its "opening station" is 150 meters long and 55 meters away from the sea. It was originally the railway dispatching room of Qinhuangdao Port. The large wharf where it is located was originally a coal wharf and was closed in 2013. It is the birthplace of Qinhuangdao Port for a century. , undertook the main task of "transporting coal from the north to the south" in the last century and made outstanding contributions to the development of the national economy.

Along the Shanhai Tourist Train, there are four museums including Electricity, Port, Glass, and Liujiang Geosciences, as well as cultural relics and historic sites such as the Banchangyu Great Wall brick kiln group ruins and the spotted hyena fossils in Lingxian Cave. Through this railway, tourists can appreciate the century-old history of the city of Qinhuangdao, feel the city's changes over the past century, and recall the city's century-old memories.

A national AAA-level tourist attraction, Congtai Wine Garden Scenic Area covers an area of ??500 acres. It fully taps the resources of ancient Zhao culture and Congtai Wine Culture, and conducts scientific planning and design based on the viewing, participation, and experience needs of modern tourists.

The scenic area has simple and harmonious architecture and a beautiful and pleasant environment. It integrates solid-state brewing, wine culture tourism, popular science education, wine tasting and shopping. It has developed a brewing workshop, a pottery cave wine cellar, a wine culture museum, The sightseeing line focusing on the Xianghe Landscape Avenue Sculpture Group and the Wine Culture Corridor will create a wine culture leisure tourism destination in northern China.