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Hunan Baoshan National Mining Park

2018-02-25

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Hunan Baoshan National Mining Park (Industry and Mining Tourist Attraction) enjoys a planning area of 7.8k㎡ and a floor area of its core tourist attraction of 1.48k㎡, taking ancient mining site and modern mining site as its main landscape and taking historic culture of mining and metallurgy as its subject. It is a fashionable and special tourism business at present fully showing ancient and modern mining process as its main content offering guests greater thrills, therefore, it was awarded as a new business card of Hunan cultural tourism!

 

Baoshan, commonly known as Baoling, was known as "Dachoushan" and was called as Zilong originally, the place for Zhao Yun stationing his troops after conquered Chenzhou in the three kingdoms period. Baoshan is rich in mineral deposits including lead, zinc, silver, gold, molybdenum, rhenium, bismuth, copper, sulphur, iron and other nonferrous metals, used to be the place of all previous dynasties government refining silver and smelting and casting since Han Dynasty, providing the raw material of the first farm tool (Shen Nong Zuo Lei) and the fastest sword (sword of state) in the world.

 

The Park (Tourist Attraction) is divided into "one center and seven districts", that is, Tourist Service Center, Underground Exploration District, Open-pit Scene District, Mining and Metallurgy Expo Park District, Zilong Training Camp District, Gujun Viewing Deck (Pengcai Park District), Mining Custom Park District, and Dressing and Smelting Process Visit District. Here is a history of mining for thousands of years including outdoor monomer mining district rare in the mainland, quite modern central-south nonferrous mines shaft, world's largest ancient copper coins theme sculpture and wealth avenue; under the shaft, there are colorful malachite, translucent ice crystals needle, irritative mining exploration and 3D film, and so many old arcades holes inherited from the Manchurian days.

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