Living Fossil of China's Coal Industry Spanning the Third Century

On the bronze road of the China Century Temple in Beijing, which records the 5000-year history of Chinese civilization, three permanent marks were engraved for an enterprise: the construction of the coal-carrying railway from Kaiping to Xugezhuang in 1881; the first operation of the Chinese rocket headstock; and the completion and commissioning of the Kaiping Coal Mine. This enterprise is Kailuan Tangshan Mine. Tangshan Mine was built in 1878 and is still in operation. China's first mechanized coal mine, China's first quasi-rail railway, the first steam locomotive, the first steam winch, the earliest railway and highway overpass and many other "first" in modern industrial history of China were born here, which is the starting place of modern China's machinery mining and railway transportation industry, and the early industrialization of China. Important coordinates. The excavation of Tangshan Mine opened the prelude of China's coal industry. Today, the Kailuan people solidify it into a typical and precious Kailuan National Mine Park on its original site, through the storms of the century, and reproduce the centuries-old classics.

Kailuan National Mine Park is composed of three major sections, namely, mining culture exposition area, "Guobao" site sightseeing area and fashion culture leisure area, including the main hall of Kailuan Museum, underground secret tour, China's first best mine 1878, electric power era 1906, steam locomotive sightseeing park, China Railway Source Museum and a series of exhibitions and scenery. District. Three national key cultural relics protection units, two provincial protection units and many national industrial relics are completely preserved. Collection of 48 first-class cultural relics, 72 second-class cultural relics, 326 third-class cultural relics, known as the living fossil of China's coal industry.

Walking into old factories full of historical vicissitudes, stroking a dust-laden industrial utensils for a hundred years, listening to a few little-known anecdotes of celebrities, is like being in the long river of historical memory. In the environment of industrial sense, in the collision of history and reality, we appreciate the heavy industrial culture and appreciate the strong urban flavor. It is worth mentioning that Kailuan National Mine Park is an underground exploration area with the functions of collective experience, exhibition and leisure. It is transformed from the old underground roadway of coal mine located tens of meters underground of the museum. It is winding and fascinating. The design of its connection with the museum is natural. Visitors can take the elevator from the fourth floor of the museum to the old underground lane and experience a mysterious, exciting and fun "underground secret tour". Passing through the dreamlike 100-meter "space-time gallery" and entering the crisscrossing ancient roadway ruins is like entering an underground labyrinth. Here, nine real working faces from original coal mining to modern coal mining are reappeared, walking through them as if wandering in coal mining textbooks. Traveling in search of seclusion, old stables, mule and horse transportation, civil air defense projects in special times and colorful geological world bring tourists unlimited curiosity and reverie. Suddenly, in the quiet underground leisure bar, or in the current largest underground 4D Film Hall in China, into the dangerous "Carboniferous Permian", feel the magic of nature. It can also travel by car to explore the secrets, traverse the deep and dark underground space, and appreciate the unique charm of mining culture.

Kailuan National Mine Park, with its typical and rare Industrial Relics of modern China, rich and rare collection and the spirit of "exceptionally capable of fighting" of Kailuan working class, has become a city business card with unique cultural charm and a spiritual home for searching for memory, and has been praised by many experts and scholars as a "nowhere to be compared and no place to be replaced". ” The sacred hall of Chinese mining culture.