Since December 2017, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has released 197 industrial heritage lists, and only six units in Hunan won this title. The main items of 711 Merit Uranium Mine Site that won the industrial heritage is No.1 Main Shaft, Mine Warehouse of No.202 Special Railway Line, Office Buildings, No.1 and 2 Expert Buildings and so on. 

 

 

711 Merit Uranium Mine Site, located in Huaxiang Subdistrict, Xujiadong Town, Suxian District, is the earliest large uranium mine discovered and explored in China. It provided qualified raw materials for China’s first atomic bomb. It was praised as the first merit uranium mine in China’s nuclear industry. The mine was established in 1958 and closed in 2003. It was approved as a national key cultural relics protection unit in 2019 and a patriotism education base in Hunan province in 2021. 

 

 

Industrial heritage is an important carrier of industrial culture. It records important information of China’s industrial development at different stages, witnesses the historical process of national and industrial development. It has significant values in history, technology, social culture and art. It’s released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology after multiple processes like application, review and on-site verification.