Jinzhong, April 16 (CNN) -- How did this 70-year-old textile machinery factory "transform" into a trendy Internet celebrity check-in place?
Author: Yang Jieying, Liang Shuning
How can a "70-year-old" warp and weft textile machinery factory become a trendy Internet celebrity check-in place?
In Yuci District, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, there is a "70-year-old" warp and weft textile machinery factory. As a witness to the development of China's industrial history, Jingwei Textile Machinery Factory carries heavy cultural value and historical significance. Today, the Go Home Art Center, located on the factory grounds, has injected new vitality into this old factory area through clever techniques.
Go Home Art Center, Yuci District. Photo by Chu Liyun
Old Car Culture Museum, Sewing Machine Museum, Police Culture Museum, Audio-Visual Film Museum, Motorcycle and Bicycle Museum, Warp and Weft Textile Machinery Factory Museum...... Walking into the Go Home Art Center in Yuci District, looking at the old collection of old objects, and experiencing the new gameplay of the old era "immersively", it is very novel.
Go Home Art Center has breathed new life into this old factory area through clever techniques. Photo by Chu Liyun
In the Automobile and Locomotive Museum, automobiles, tractors, and large trucks gather together; in the Film Museum, the old movie machine of Bayi Film Studio is still playing the film of the "Seventeen Years" movie, and the 35mm film records the time, retains the light and shadow, and writes the splendor of the times and art in the old movie machine; Weighing stones, sewing machines of various brands fill the entire wall, recording the history of the evolution of traditional tools, and allowing visitors to feel the progress of society and technology.
Go Home Art Center in Yuci District is home to the largest number of museums in Shanxi. Photo by Chu Liyun
Adhering to the concept of "renewal and conservatism", Go Home Art Center retains the historical appearance of the Jingwei Textile Machinery Factory, and at the same time develops cultural and creative industries and cultural facilities on this basis. They skillfully transformed the old factory into a cultural, tourism and commercial integration industry, which not only continued the cultural context of the city, but also expanded the cultural space of the city.
On April 3, Liu Xing, mayor of Jinzhong City, emphasized the need to develop and make good use of Jinzhong's unique cultural history and industrial tourism resources, organically combine the excavation of industrial heritage culture with modern urban life, give it a new connotation and the atmosphere of the times, build the museum into a vivid window to understand local culture, and promote the construction of a museum town.
When Zhang Hairong, the mayor of Yuci District, worked at the Go Home Art Center, he put forward the requirements of strengthening service awareness, strengthening communication and coordination, and establishing an office mechanism for the development of good service projects, and arranged and deployed the implementation of various preferential support policies and increased project construction and operation, and strived to build the first choice and new highland for people in the central Shanxi urban agglomeration to travel.
Yuci Cultural Tourism is sprouting green, and it is the right time for Jin Chinese Tourism to improve quality and efficiency. The person in charge of Go Home Art Center said that the "immersive" experience of the content of the old era is only the foundation, and the in-depth integration and development of all elements will be strengthened, and the "cultural tourism +" industry articles will be written to rejuvenate the vitality of the integrated development of culture and tourism. (ENDS)