看本溪湖遗产群 体验工业文化

◎文/本刊记者 刘石国

本溪，一座用钢铁撑起共和国脊梁的城市。中国现代冶铁工业在这里开端，这里拥有亚洲最大的竖井煤矿和露天铁矿，拥有亚洲最早和最大的炼铁高炉，不仅为新中国建设提供了坚强的钢铁支撑，也为我们留下了珍贵的国宝级文物——本溪湖工业遗产群。

本溪湖工业遗产群，被国务院公布为第七批全国重点文物保护单位，并入选第二批中国 20世纪建筑遗产名单。走进本溪湖工业遗产群，你可以看到本钢一铁厂旧址（1911 年）、本溪湖煤铁公司事务所旧址 ( 大白楼 )、本溪煤矿中央大斜井（日伪时期）、东山张作霖别墅（1927 年）、本溪湖火车站（1904 年）和彩屯煤矿竖井（1938 年）等建筑。它们当中最年老的如今已115 岁了，最年轻的也年愈八旬，可谓历经世事，沧桑百年。

来本溪还可以参观曾经是亚洲最大露天铁矿——南芬露天矿，去位于桓仁的米兰酒业看冰酒加工过程。这一趟工业之旅，一定能让你感受本溪这座煤铁之城的独特魅力。

Benxi is the cradle of modern Chinese iron industry. Its iron and steel have contributed to the Republic’s prosperity. Its reclined shaft coal mine and openpit iron mine were the largest in Asia. Its iron smelting furnaces were the first and biggest in Asia. These facilities not only provided iron and steel for the new China, but have bestowed us an invaluable heritage: Benxihu Heritage Group.

The Benxihu Heritage Group has been designated a National Culture Relic Protection Site by the State Council in its seventh pronouncement. It has been chosen in the second selection as one of the China 20th Century Architectural Heritages. When you come to the site you will be impressed by Benxi Iron Plant No. 1 (built in 1911), Office of Benxihu Coal & Iron Company (the Grand White Building), the Central Inclined Shaft of Benxi Coal Mine (built in the Japanese occupation period), Zhang Zuolin’s villa (1927) , Benxihu Railway Station (1904), and Caitun Relined Shaft(1938). Among these mines and buildings the oldest is 115 years of age. Even the youngest is over eighty. In the previous century they were the witnesses of the changes in China.

Come to Benxi to take a look at the Nanfen Open-pit Iron Mine, once largest in Asia, and the ice wine winery of Milan Wine Industry in Huanren. Your tour of the old and new industries will give you a unique experience from the charming City of Iron and Coal.