Zhongjiao Bay Visitor Center Introduction
Located at kilometer 39 on Provincial Highway 2, Zhongjiao Bay features a bay with a concave sandy shoreline and is known for its beautiful, massive waves created by the seasonal north winds. It is one of the most famous surfing paradises on the North Coast, attracting many surfers on weekends who ride the waves, showcasing unique surfing scenery. In order to enhance the surfing environment at Zhongjiao Bay and promote tourism development on the North Coast, as well as to accommodate surfing as one of the five new events in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, on January 18, 2019, Premier Su Tseng-chang led a visit to Jinshan Zhongjiao Bay with relevant departments, including the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and the Ministry of Education, along with New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-ih. They designated Zhongjiao Bay as an international surfing base for training and developing surfers. Subsequently, on January 25, 2019, Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung convened the Ministry of Education, the Council of Agriculture (now the Ministry of Agriculture), the National Development Council, and other related units to coordinate efforts to establish a surfing training base centered around Zhongjiao Elementary School. Plans were also made to construct a visitor center and surfing service center alongside the sandy beach at Zhongjiao Bay without damaging the natural landscape, establishing Zhongjiao Bay as an "international surfing base." The official inauguration of the Zhongjiao Bay International Surfing Base took place on December 22, 2019, with Premier Su Tseng-chang attending the ceremony. It is hoped that Zhongjiao Bay will become an international surfing mecca, attracting surfing enthusiasts from both home and abroad, and further nurturing professional surfing talents through Zhongjiao Elementary School and Jinshan High School, cultivating more surfers to represent the country on the international stage.
