Source: Qinhuangdao Tourism Culture Release
The port is built by the sea, and the city is born with the port. The development of Qinhuangdao is inseparable from the growing Qinhuangdao Port. The port throughput has increased from 230,000 tons in the early days of the founding of New China to 200 million tons today, which has become a veritable “barometer of the national economy”.
Photo by Li Yuxiang
Qinhuangdao Port has a history of 123 years since its opening in modern times. On March 26, 1898, the Qing government opened the Qinhuangdao Trade Port to “revitalize commerce” and “expand profit sources”. On April 3, it was officially announced that Qinhuangdao would open its own port. On June 10, the Qinhuangdao Agent Office of the Kaiping Mining Bureau was established in Dongyanwu Village, marking the birth of Qinhuangdao Port. It has gone through ups and downs with slow development during 50 years since its opening to the founding of the People’s Republic of China. As of the year of liberation, there were only two wharves with a throughput of only about 800,000 tons.
From 1949 to 1978, the port has developed into a comprehensive terminal with a complete range of coal, oil, and general cargo instead of a single coal terminal. From 1979 to 1988, the production and construction of Qinhuangdao Port experienced rapid development. Since 1985, it has become China’s second largest port, and has been rated as a unit with significant economic benefits by the Ministry of Communications for three consecutive years. From 1996 to 2005, the port implemented structural adjustments, modern technology began to enter people’s vision, and various infrastructures in the port were also gradually constructed.
Workers of Qinhuangdao Port are operating coal inspection devices with modern technology in the 1990s.
Nowadays, Qinhuangdao Port has entered a new stage of transformation and upgrading, and the original port has become Qinhuangdao International Tourist Port (Xigang Garden), which is romantic and beautiful with green grass, flower seas, and weather-beaten buildings, telling a story of the history.
The main landscapes of the international tourist port are all redesigned and transformed from the abandoned equipment and facilities of the port. There are unique industrial atmosphere and profound heritage, as well as flavor of harbor and modern times.
The sailing yacht pier transformed from the original work ship pier of Qinhuangdao Port / Photo by Li Yuxiang
Photo by Li Yuxiang
They are the windows to the outside world, carrying the history of the port, telling the story of a century-old port, and showing the vast space for the future development of Qinhuangdao International Tourist Port.
Photo by Li Yuxiang
Today, Qinhuangdao Port has turned into the Qinhuangdao International Tourist Port. It is not an industrial port any more, but a tourist attraction with its new mission. The grand century-old port is witnessing the changing world and the progressive era.
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