Source: Qinhuangdao Daily
On December 21, the reporter learned from Hebei Port Group that Qinhuangdao West Port Industrial Heritage Project was successfully listed on the 2nd batch of National Industrial Heritages and became the first port across the country on the list, which means another “national level” was added to centennial port city.
Qinhuangdao Port of Hebei Port Group, which was opened in 1898, has a history of 120 years and preserves a large number of outstanding modern industrial heritage buildings. Qinhuangdao West Port, which was listed on the National Industrial Heritages, is the relic of Qinhuangdao Port. Its core items include 10 old buildings such as Grand Dock, Old Dockyard Area, No.1 Special Room of Nanshan Street, Senior Staff Club of Kailuan Mining Bureau, Nanshan Rooms for Senior pilots, South Stack House, Qinhuangdao Manager’s Office of Mitsubishi Songchang Company, Nanshan Hotel, Weighing House at Laogang(Old Port) Station and the Vehicle Management Office of Qinhuangdao Manager’s Office of Kailuan Mining Bureau, 5 of them are state-level cultural relics protection units and another 5 are Hebei Province cultural relics protection units. As an important carrier of industrial culture, these buildings have witnessed the historical process of modern industrial development in northern China, bearing the historical memory and cultural accumulation of Qinhuangdao Port and Qinhuangdao City, with important values of history, science and technology, social culture and art.
In recent years, in order to know the status of the port industrial heritage, Hebei Port Group attached great importance to the protection and development of industrial cultural heritage, and conducted systematic research on the old port area, old docks and its ancillary facilities, including Qinhuangdao West Port, and the associated port industrial culture. On this basis, adhering to the principle of “comprehensive planning, complete protection, and scientific utilization”, they will develop various types of cultural and tourism projects based on the port's industrial cultural theme and the port's historical remains, including: transforming Senior Staff Club of Kailuan Mining Bureau into a large-scale public welfare cultural project -- Qinhuangdao Port Museum, which has become a window for the public to understand the historical changes of the port, reconstructing the working boat dock into a sailing yacht club, renovating the old office building into the Angel Bay Book Bar and the Angel Bay Hotel, and converting the railway yard into a railway landscape of flowers sea.