Pomegranate Cloud/Xinjiang Daily News (reporter Lu Storm reports) What can be done in the highway service area? Parking, eating, refueling, toileting, shopping... These have become standard in the service area. In the Fukang service area of the G7 line Beijing-Xin Expressway, you can see meteorites.
On the morning of January 16, the first cultural tourism demonstration service area of Xinjiang Expressway, the "Fukang Star" Aerospace Meteorite Science Popularization Museum in the Fukang Service Area, was officially opened.
Spacesuits on display in the Science Museum. Pomegranate Cloud/Xinjiang Daily reporter Lu Storm photographed
Walking into the service area, two "astronauts" wearing spacesuits stood in front of the Aerospace Meteorite Science Popularization Hall and guided everyone to visit inside.
Meteorites on display in the Science Museum. Pomegranate Cloud/Xinjiang Daily reporter Lu Storm photographed
The museum is rich in exhibits, including "the world's most beautiful meteorite" - Fukang meteorite, "Heavenly Eagle" meteorite, "Tianxin Star Olivine Iron Meteorite" and other extremely precious meteorites, these meteorites like "black holes" attract everyone's attention. Coming here is like being in a mysterious cosmic space, these "extraterrestrial visitors" make people have endless fantasies and fun about the exploration of the universe, and take everyone to open an immersive dialogue with the starry sky.
Li Qian, director of the Market Development Department of Xinjiang Jiaotong Investment Industrial Co., Ltd., said that the Aerospace Meteorite Science Popularization Museum in Fukang Service Area is a new development model that the company combines the highway service area with local tourism culture in accordance with the development requirements of "transportation + tourism" in the autonomous region, and creates a new scientific exploration experience comprehensive hall that integrates amusement, education, science popularization and experience. The science museum advocates the spirit of originality and exploration, and is more ingenious in the design of venues and facilities, with meteorite exploration journey as the main line, including a series of exhibitions and experience areas such as meteorite family, space meteorite base, cosmic energy health experience, meteorology hunting academy, etc., and makes full use of new technologies and interactive equipment such as sound and optoelectronics, VR, AR, etc. to enhance the visitors' sense of experience.
Li Qian said that Xinjiang Jiaotong Investment Industrial Company has established a service brand of "one district, one characteristic, one district and one culture", made full use of the unique advantages of the Fukang service area, expanded new channels for cultural tourism publicity and promotion, enriched the new formats and new contents of the high-speed service area, broke the public's cognition of the traditional service area, created a travel station with Xinjiang characteristics on the existing basis, and realized a new leap in the service area from parking to commercial area, from stopover points to tourist attractions, from gas stations to cultural stations, and become a new window of characteristic culture. A new corridor carrying the economic development of the expressway.
In the later stage, Xinjiang Jiaotong Investment Industrial Co., Ltd. is committed to building the "Fukang Star" Aerospace Meteorite Science Popularization Museum into a science popularization education base and patriotic education base in our region, enriching Xinjiang's tourism resources and attracting more people to start the journey of "science popularization exploration + entertainment experience".