The Ministry of Culture and Tourism recently released a list of 53 organizations and institutions designated as the national industrial tourism demonstration bases.

The CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotives Industrial Tourism Area and the Sany Intelligent Heavy-duty Truck Industrial Park, both in Hunan Province, made the list.

The CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotives Industrial Tourism Area is located inside the CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotives Co., Ltd. (CRRC ZELC) which is the world's largest electric locomotive R&D base, the birthplace of China's electric multiple unit (EMU) technologies and commercial maglev trains, and a world-class researcher, developer, and manufacturer of urban rail vehicles. It is reputed as China's "capital of electric locomotives". Its industrial tourism area focuses on industrial study tour, university-enterprise exchange, and business reception. It provides professional guide service, high-end audio and video equipment, and VR and MR interactive programs, to display the cutting-edge rail transit technologies and products and show visitors the charm of CRRC ZELC as an industrial powerhouse in China. The area was appraised as an "industrial cultural heritage of Chinese central state-owned enterprises", a "China railway scientific popularization educational base", and an industrial tourism demonstration spot of Hunan Province. 

The Sany Intelligent Heavy-duty Truck Industrial Park is located in the Changsha Economic and Technological Development Zone, composed of an exhibition area and a factory. In its 45-meter-long cultural corridor, heavy-duty trucks worth nearly 6 million CNY are on display. Visitors can learn about SANY's history, observe the pioneering vehicles and whole assembling process, and feel the charm of heavy-duty truck.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: Voice of Hunan