Source: Qinhuangdao Daily
Reporter: Shi Na
Ferrari, Aston Martin, Lamborghini... these world’s top super cars got together. Modification selection, drift confrontation, posture competition, track challenges, and music party challenge your ears. Supporting projects, such as sightseeing train, air trail, and karting track, integrate tourism, project experience, catering and entertainment. This is Qinhuangdao Shougang Racing Valley, a new steel industrial art work, located in the south of Mt. Yanshan and the coast of the Bohai Sea.
Shougang Racing Valley is built on the relics of Shouqin Company, which started construction in 2003 and was put into production on June 6, 2004. It is a steel joint enterprise integrating sintering, iron making, steel making and steel rolling, with an annual output of 2.6 million tons of steel and 1.8million tons of steel plate.
“With the adjustment of production capacity structure, the need for coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the demand for Qinhuangdao to build an international tourist city, and high-quality development, the municipal party committee and the municipal government held talks with our group and we decided to transit and suspend production.” said Shen Yiping, general manager of Shouqin Company, but the direction is not clear. “There are few successful transition cases of steel companies. Therefore, we have conducted extensive research with the municipal party committee and the municipal government before suspending production, to study how to make sustainable development after the transition and develop the sunrise industry, and finally we decided the direction of motor sports.” said Shen.
The motor sports gave Shouqin a new historical mission on this land of iron and fire. “We started planning in March last year, and was approved on February 27 this year by Qinhuangdao Planning Committee. This project, covering an area of 8.13 square kilometers and a core area of 2.4 square kilometers, was officially launched. The planning content covers automobile sports, industrial heritage park, post-market, teaching and research, culture, relics park, industrial and supporting industry, etc..” said Shen Yiping.
“It is very exciting, we came to Qinhuangdao with 6 friends, and heard of Qinhuangdao’s new racing valley, we want to have a look at it.” said Shao Zhuang, a post-90s girl from Jilin Province, who loved excitement and had just experienced the karting driving in Shougang Racing Valley on August 23.
“We started some projects around the core area this year. We have created an international second-class track in the sports sector. This is the first international second-class track built in the steel factory. The track is 3.8 kilometers in length with 17 corners and designated speed of 272.6 kilometers per hour. The second project is the Karting Word, which is divided into indoor and outdoor areas. The indoor is for entertainment, and the outdoor for competition. The outdoor track is 1.2 kilometers in length, designed according to the highest international track standard. It has been put into operation after construction. The third content is straight-line racing. The track is 1.4 kilometers long and the speed of racing cars can be accelerated from 0 to 400 m/h. In this way, the racing valley basically includes all the sports tracks except cross-country track.
Shen Yiping said that six events had been held in Shougang Racing Valley in the past August, including international and national truck open. Next, the Racing Valley will be dedicated to building the park’s supporting businesses, restaurants and hotels. “We transformed the physical and chemical testing center into a car-themed hotel with 130 rooms of 5 types. We also built eight giant mushrooms indoor as video game hall. Some formats have already taken shape.” said Shen Yiping, adding that the construction of the park is a continuous process. “We hope to build it together with all sides with open vision and open mind. The future of the racing valley is not only a place to play, but also the entire industrial chain of the car, from upstream research and development to the latter modification, electrification, intelligence, online, and sharing. We are committed to the high-quality development of Qinhuangdao, and we hope to contribute to the connection of tourism culture with the mountains and the sea.” said Shen.
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