Writes of Passage

At the Qixin Museum in Tangshan.

A neat bookstore in silos, within the Qixin Museum compound in Tangshan.

Lubei District
Tangshan, China

Huaxin Park was the next stop after lunch. It’s the namesake textile factory Zhou Xuexi founded in 1918, on the eastern side of the Tanghe River. We crossed the Steel Bridge (Beixin E Road) to there and left on the Huaxin Bridge to the train station.

The ‘park’ isn’t much of a park but a tiny crescent land on Huaxin E Road on the southern side. Perhaps, it’s spared by the developer. The main compound (Tanghe River across), Steel Town’s Spring City 钢城春邑 is encircled by high fence, which forbid visitors. The tall buildings can be seen easily. The Sales Center is prominent displayed.

Google Huaxin Park, two areas show up: on the north and south. To the SE corner, is Jinjiang Inn 锦江之星唐山新华道酒店 on 1 Xinhua E Road 新华东道1号.

• Huaxin Street in Tianjin
• 2017.7.07, Huaxin Park Begins to Build 唐山环城水系华新公园正式开工建设
• 2011.4.07, demolition is completed 唐山华新公园建筑拆除完毕

The Huaxin Bridge (Qixin Motorway Interchange): the left is taken on Oct 10, 2019 and right on Jan 18, 2020. The change is due to shabby workmanship.

Lubei District 路北区, 启新1889工业园区内
Tangshan, China

This themed restaurant is inside the compound of Qixin Cement Museum 中国水泥工业博物馆北. The organizer was very thoughtful and treated me to a lunch at Zhou’s Room 周公馆, which is in honor of my great granduncle Zhou Xuexi. Looking out the window I saw a train passing by. The foods are delicious and nicely presented. The photos of Thunderstorm (雷雨 Leiyu) is also a very nice touch because it’s claimed the play by Cao Yu (曹禺) was based on the Zhou.

Of the Qixin Museum in Tangshan

15 Xinhua E Rd, Lubei,
Tangshan, Hebei, China

The official name is Tangshan Qixin Cement Industrial Museum (唐山启新水泥工业博物馆) but people call it the old fashion way: Qixin museum. The old Qixin cement ceased fire in 2008 and the museum  was opened in 2012 after Jidong Cement Co ^{冀东水泥股份有限公司 1000123}  bought it 2011. When the former competitors, Jidong and Beijing Jinyu Cement Co ^{北京金隅水泥公司} underwent reorganization, Jinyu became the owner in 2019. The current name is China Cement Industry Museum ^{中国水泥工业博物馆} as seen here.  

Their tiles took home the top honor from 1915 Panama

Tangshan

It’s my second time visiting Tangshan.

Last year I went on a Monday which is the Museum’s off day. Oh well, it says a lot about my ability. But thanks lord one of museum staff was very helpful and the rest was a story. This time, it was planned so I went on Wednesday -:).

100 Xinhua E Rd, Lunan
Tangshan

Wanda (万达集团) is everywhere in China, usually in the most prime location of that city. It was founded in Dalian by Wang Jianlin 王健林 who famous said, to reach a tiny target, lets start with a billion (一个亿小目标) in 2016.

In Tangshan, it’s next to Dazhao Park and directly cross the street from my so so Xinhua – and the hotel there cost much more than Xinhua. And people can more a lot things there: eat, shop (Sephora), take photography (for wedding? birthday? or just for fun …) and sell your real estate.

83 Xinhua E Road ^{新华东道83号}
Tangshan, China

After gifting ceremony and seminar, they treated me at their hotel/conference hall for lunch. It’s two blocks away from Xinhua Hotel. Sunshine made the small guest house more desirable than the hotel. The lunch is a quick event and no alcohol was served.