After the establishment and launch of the Party Building Education Point themed “This is How Steel is Tempered” at the 9.7-meter-high Platform of Shougang Park’s Blast Furnace No. 3, as well as the Shougang Cultural Tourism and Shougang Cultural Creativity Employees’ Innovation Studios, they have consistently provided high-quality operation services. Since their official start of operation in May of this year, they have attracted enterprises, public institutions, Party members, primary and secondary school students, and people from all walks of life to visit and exchange.

The thematic scenes of Party building teaching have become more distinctive. At Blast Furnace No. 3’s 9.7-meter-high platform, “This is How Steel is Tempered” comes into view and “Ten-Mile Steel City” stands on the sand table model. The newly-built steel whole-process sand table model themed “This is How Steel is Tempered”, which is 18 meters long and 2 meters wide, displays the process flows of mining, ironmaking, steelmaking, and finished products on the spot through a combination of sound, electricity, and light. It displays the whole process of steel production and steel products through the dynamic simulation and processing of four links, namely the coke pusher, hot metal ladle transportation, hot metal ladle craning, and simulated receiving and pouring of molten iron via the converter. The sand table of the steel production technology process and the ironmaking blast furnace are natural and complementary, with prominent themes and distinctive features. Since its trial operation and opening in May, it has received more than 3,000 tourists for more than 60 themed Party building activities.

Employees’ innovation exchanges have become more vivid. The Shougang Cultural Creativity and Shougang Cultural Tourism Employees’ Innovation Studios consist of four functional areas: the product display area, interactive experience area, topic discussion area, and cultural tourism publicity and promotion area. Among them, themed “The Source of Industry – The Beauty of Creative Art”, the Shougang Cultural Creativity Employees’ Innovation Studio displays cultural creativity products derived from steel materials such as “5G Steel”, “Silk Steel”, and electro-technical steel, reflecting the empowerment of steel materials by cultural creativity and the innovative ability of Shougang’s elements, in which AI face-swapping and on-site “silk steel” winding are very popular. Themed “Crossing from Mountain to Sea – Metamorphosis of Fire and Ice”, the Shougang Cultural Tourism Employees’ Innovation Studio takes “four lines” as its main contents, namely the industrial tourism line, education research line, Party building teaching line, and national defense education line, and shows the characteristics of Shougang’s cultural tourism through six chapters: Beauty of the Landscape, Power of Steel, Light of the Winter Olympic Games, Magic of Science and Technology, Soul of Culture, and Love of Food. The China Development Bank, Ansteel Group Corporation Limited, China Construction Second Engineering Bureau Co., Ltd., Haidian District Education Labor Union, and other units visited and exchanged views in the innovation studio one after another, and spoke highly of it.

The content of research activities has become richer. “This is How Steel is Tempered” is not only the teaching focus of Party building, but also the study route of primary and secondary school students. Shougang Park is a youth learning and working base in Beijing, a “social classroom resource unit for primary and secondary schools”, and a “practical teaching base for ideological and political courses” in Shijingshan District. The research product themed “This is How Steel is Tempered” is deeply loved by the majority of primary and secondary school students, allowing the “flowers of the motherland” to not only understand the whole process of steel production technology, but also gain a deeper understanding of Shougang’s history of serving the country with steel and building a new landmark in the revival of the capital in the new era. Since its operation, it has received more than 700 tourists in five batches from Beijing Wenhui Middle School, Beijing Vocational and Technical College, Changping Vocational School, and Shougang Technician College. The establishment of its research routes and the professionalism of its research teams have been recognized by everyone.

Party members, members of the public, and primary and secondary school students visiting and engaging in activities at the 9.7-meter-high Platform of Blast Furnace No. 3 said that the scenes here were stunning; the activity was a very vivid educational course; they gained a full experience of Shougang serving the country with steel and its leap-forward development as a century-old enterprise; they felt that the majority of Party members were amazed and enlightened by the course on the history of the revolution; and they believed that Shougang employees have the infinite vitality of innovation, and the vivid research course explains how steel makes our lives better.