Zhongjiao Bay Visitor Center Introduction
Located at kilometer 39 on Taiwan Route 2, Zhongjiao Bay features a concave sandy shoreline at its entrance, along with powerful waves stirred up by the northeast winds throughout the year, making it the most famous surfing paradise on the northern coast. On weekends, many surfers gather to ride the waves, creating a unique surfing spectacle. To enhance the surfing environment at Zhongjiao Bay and promote tourism development in the northern coast, as well as to respond to the inclusion of surfing as one of the five new events in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Premier Su Tseng-chang inspected Zhongjiao Bay in Jinshan on January 18, 2019, with the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Education, and other related departments along with New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-ih, and designated Zhongjiao Bay as an international surfing center for the cultivation and training of surfing athletes. Subsequently, on January 25, 2019, Minister of Transport Lin Chia-lung convened various relevant units, including the Ministry of Education, the Council of Agriculture (now the Ministry of Agriculture), the National Development Council, the Ministry of Transport, the Highway Administration (now the Directorate General of Highways), and the Tourism Bureau (now the Tourism Development Division) to coordinate and establish a surfing training base centered around Zhongjiao Elementary School. Without damaging the local topography, plans were made to construct a visitor center and a surfing service center next to Zhongjiao Bay beach, positioning Zhongjiao Bay as an “international surfing base.” On December 22, 2019, the international surfing base at Zhongjiao Bay was officially launched, with Premier Su Tseng-chang attending the inauguration ceremony, and the expectation that Zhongjiao Bay will become a holy site for international surfing, attracting surfing enthusiasts from both domestic and abroad. It is also hoped that through Zhongjiao Elementary School and Jinshan Senior High School, it will serve as a talent cultivation base for professional surfers, training more surfing athletes to bring glory to the country on the international stage.
