The Winter Olympics awakened the new value of industrial culture in the capital. The old plant of Shougang was brought from industrial rust into a dynamic show

During the Beijing Winter Olympics, Shougang ski jump became the focus of the world. Chinese contestant Gu ailing soared here and won the gold medal. In recent years, Beijing Jingshan iron and Steel Co., Ltd. has taken the Winter Olympics as an opportunity to speed up the protection of Beijing’s remains. The protection projects of industrial relics such as Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, ski jumping platform and Shougang three high furnace have been completed, and the old plant area of Shougang has changed from an industrial rust belt to a dynamic show.

On February 13, a special press conference on the protection of Beijing’s history and culture was held at the 2022 Beijing News Center. Li Xianxia, deputy mayor of Shijingshan District of Beijing, made the above introduction.

Li Xianxia said that Shougang is the largest, most valuable and most important industrial cultural heritage in Beijing. It is also an important link in the construction of Shijingshan cultural belt. The preparation and holding of the Beijing Winter Olympics has led Shijingshan District to accelerate the protection of Shougang’s Industrial Relics, promote the construction of industrial site park, and build cultural landscape nodes such as may day theater and post industrial landscape leisure belt; The completion of industrial heritage protection projects such as Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, ski jumping platform and Shougang three high furnace has continued the context of old industrial culture and released the vitality of traditional industrial resources. The old plant of Shougang has changed from an industrial rust belt to a dynamic show.

In 2021 alone, many large-scale activities such as China International Trade Fair, China science fiction conference and the first Xishan Yongdinghe Culture Festival were held in Shougang. During the Beijing Winter Olympics, Shougang ski jump platform has become the focus of the world.

How will Shijingshan District inherit, protect and make good use of the Winter Olympic heritage after the Beijing Winter Olympic Games? Li Xianxia said that with Chinese contestant Gu ailing winning the championship on the ski platform of Shougang, Shougang park is now promoted to a world-class “net red land”. Shijingshan District is making a forward-looking plan for the post competition utilization of the three areas of the big diving platform, the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee and the “four pieces of ice”, giving it the functions of sports leisure block, veneer and air skills R & D center and winter sports display.

In the next step, Shijingshan District will also formulate the protection list of Shougang Industrial Relics of Beijing Winter Olympic Games, study the reuse mode and scheme of Industrial Relics, cultivate the “sports +” industrial ecology, and focus on the development of diversified business forms such as sports trade, sports exhibition and sports tourism; Continue to tap the industrial cultural connotation of Shougang, focus on the reconstruction of industrial relics such as blast furnace, coke oven and transfer station, build Shougang Industrial Heritage Park, build a historical memorial of the capital’s modern iron and steel industry and a place for experience of characteristic industrial relics, and build a large-scale, open and special public space; Special cultural and tourism routes such as science and Technology Tour Shougang, wanghong Shougang and night tour Shougang are planned.

In addition, Shijingshan District will also focus on the development of science fiction industry in Shougang Park and promote the construction of science fiction industry cluster. At present, the gathering area has attracted more than 10 science fiction enterprises such as China Science Fiction Research Center, Tencent and popular Qitian and related projects. Among them, the “Super Space” project built by Shougang No. 1 blast furnace is not only located in the largest virtual reality experience center in North China, but also the world’s first international culture and Technology Park combining VR / AR technology and Industrial Relics.

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