A few days ago, the brand "Show Shijingshan-Trendy Play in Shougang Park" was successfully selected as one of the "second batch of Beijing micro-vacation destination brands", adding a "gold" signboard for Shijingshan District to build an urban leisure tourism destination. Come to Shougang Park, an urban renewal space, to enjoy the new experience of playing and start an immersive journey of nature and humanity.

Recommended guide 01| Where to play

No.3 Blast Furnace and Xiuchi Area

The No. 3 blast furnace in Shougang Park, completed and put into operation in June 1993, is the first modern large-scale blast furnace of Shougang with a capacity of more than 2,500 cubic meters. The design adopts the method of "restoring the old as the old", and based on retaining the main blast furnace, hot blast furnace, gravity dust collector, and other core industrial structures, it is transformed into the Global Premiere Center, with a strong sense of industrial culture intertwined with a sense of the cyber future, which makes it one of the park's must-visit landmarks. Built in 1940 as a circulating pool for ironmaking, the ground part of the Xiuchi Area has been transformed into a landscaped pool, and the underground part into an underground garage with a capacity of 855 cars and a circular sunken exhibition hall.

Big Air Shougang

The same ski jumping platform that the Olympic champions have used is a must to visit, where Gu Ailing, Su Yiming, and other athletes in the Big Air Shougang created the miracle in the winter of 2022. After the Winter Olympics, this place will be the world's first permanently retained and used ski jumping venue, and a variety of events and activities are planned to be held there. The Big Air Shougang can be described as a "rebirth from fire to ice", and the design is inspired by the flying apsaras ribbons in Dunhuang Murals, hence getting the name "The flying apsaras in the snow". 

Kappa Shougang Infinite

Kappa Shougang Infinite, located in the northeastern part of Shougang Park North Area, is adjacent to the office area of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, and has the largest outdoor skateboarding and rock-climbing area in Beijing, with a total area of 17,900 square meters, of which the rock-climbing area covers 4,261 square meters, the skateboarding area covers 4,386 square meters, and the recreation area covers 9,266 square meters. It meets the needs of international-level professional competition programs, and is also open to skateboarding and rock-climbing enthusiasts and even non-professionals like children and parents, adding more accessibility for the public.

Qunming Lake

Qunming Lake, located in the center of the park, is adapted from the Shougang Blast Furnace Industrial Circulating Pool. In winter, Siberian mallard ducks, northern pintail ducks, and Chinese merganser ducks migrate to the lake, and flocks of ducks leisurely forage on the lake surface, which, together with the mountain ranges, blast furnace, pavilions, corridor bridges, form an absolutely beautiful "bird paradise picture".

Sky Trail

The Shougang Sky Trail is 2.6 kilometers long, connecting the Yongding River Riverside Leisure Park in the west, running through the Shougang Industrial Site Park and the north shore of Qunming Lake, and creating a green ecological health corridor in the west of Beijing as a whole. Take a pleasant stroll in the three-dimensional trial, and you can have a panoramic view of the park scenery.

RE International Center for Digital Creativity

Formerly known as the Shougang Ironworks Industrial Warehouse, the pavilion has a height of 28 meters and is divided into three floors, with a display area of more than 1,000 square meters. The pavilion has been renovated to retain the unique spatial layout of the industrial heritage, and at the same time, has a functional space for innovative displays. The exhibition hall successively launches China's heavyweight cultural heritage immersive exhibitions, through the combination of offline experience and online live broadcasting, gives the public all-round multi-angle emotional interaction, awakens cultural pride, and enhances cultural self-confidence.

Liaocang Clocks and Watches Museum

The museum exhibits more than 600 pieces of collections with a time span of nearly 200 years, displaying classic pocket watches, hand watches, and clocks produced by the world's top watchmakers and independent watchmakers from 1830 to the present. In addition, there are novelty foreign goods and antique collections to fill in the gaps about time outside of clocks and watches and to bring works of art to life.

Recommended guide 02| Where to eat

Shang Brew

As a new culinary landmark jointly created by Shougang Group and Shangri-La Group, Shang Brew is located in the heart of Shougang Park, with the iconic No. 3 blast furnace at its back, and facing Xiuchi Lake and Shijingshan Mountain, enjoying a unique view of the lake and the mountains. When you enter the restaurant, there is a huge art installation wall in front of you, with all kinds of steel industry parts attracting a lot of attention. Inside the restaurant, silver fermentation tanks occupy the center position, ensuring that every cup of craft beer you drink is freshly produced.

Su Xiaoya (Beijing Roast Duck)

Located in the southeast corner of Qunming Lake in Shougang Park, its original site is the Shougang Power Plant Five Pumping Station, which belongs to one of the ancient architectural groups of Qunming Lake. The third-floor terrace of the restaurant overlooks the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Ski Jumping Platform.

CHANG'AN MILLS

CHANG'AN MILLS is a commercial complex covering lifestyle, exhibition hall, catering, entertainment experience, parent-child activity, fitness, and other businesses. The overall design style is fashionable and youthful, in which the leisure ladder is a very artistic scene, and the wooden leisure ladder with a large ecological wall of green plants is also very suitable for friends to gather and rest. The fashionable games, handicrafts, food, performances, and camping are always enough to make you enjoy yourself.

Recommended guide 03| Where to stay

Shangri-La Shougang Park, Beijing

Shangri-La Shougang Park, Beijing officially opened on December 28,2021, and became one of the official hotels of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. The hotel was renovated on the basis of the former Shougang Power Plant, which not only shows the industrial and scale sense of the original base but also is a clever fusion of architectural aesthetics and modern industry. With 283 modern and stylish guest rooms and suites,3 distinctive restaurants and bars presenting world and local specialties, more than 1,400 square meters of meeting space, a recreation center, and a children's playground, the hotel is the preferred choice for business travelers, leisure vacations and conference events in Beijing.

Beijing Shougang Xiuchi Zhixuan Holiday Hotel

Managed by the internationally renowned InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) and adjacent to the Shougang Park Winter Sports Training Center and Shougang Ice Hockey Stadium, Beijing Shougang Xiuchi Zhixuan holiday hotel currently has 298 guest rooms with 4 meeting rooms ranging from 28-150 square meters, self-service laundry, parking lot and other facilities.

Beijing Shougang Gongshe Zhixuan Holiday Hotel

Adopting the design concept of "CangGe"("Cang" as a public activity space and "Ge" as the guest room space), the hotel utilizes the existing conditions of the building and puts in the functional forms of the new era to reflect the respect for the industrial site and the continuation of the historical memory of Shougang. It has 127 guest rooms and is equipped with a cafe, meeting rooms, and multi-function halls in the beautiful environment of the Smart Space.

Honglou Guest House, Beijing Located under Shijingshan Mountain with beautiful scenery and numerous monuments, adjacent to the National Winter Sports Training Center of Shougang Park, and only 400 meters away from the Big Air Shougang, the hotel is well-equipped with 42 guest rooms, a restaurant, meeting rooms, a coffee bar, a gym, a hairdressing room, a billiard hall, and other facilities.

Translator: ZHOU Huilin

Reviewer: LIU Jin