Zhongan Bay Visitor Center Introduction
Located at kilometer 39 of Taiwan Route 2, Zhongjiao Bay features a concave sandy shoreline at the mouth of the bay, along with beautiful, towering waves stirred up by the seasonal northern winds, making it the most well-known surfing paradise on the northern coast. Every holiday, many surfers gather here 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 surfing being included as one of the five new events in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, on January 18, 2019, Premier Su Tseng-chang, along with related departments such as the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and the Ministry of Education, inspected Zhongjiao Bay in Jinshan with New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-ih, instructing that Zhongjiao Bay be established as an international surfing base for training and developing surfers. Subsequently, on January 25, 2019, Minister of Transportation and Communications Lin Chia-lung gathered relevant units including the Ministry of Education, Council of Agriculture (now the Ministry of Agriculture), National Development Council, the Directorate General of Highways (now the Highway Bureau), and the Tourism Bureau (now the Tourism Administration) to coordinate efforts with Zhongjiao Elementary School as the core to establish a surfing training base. Without damaging the natural landscape, plans were made to build the Zhongjiao Bay Visitor Center and Surfing Service Center next to the beach, positioning Zhongjiao Bay as an "international surfing base." On December 22, 2019, the international surfing base at Zhongjiao Bay was officially inaugurated, with Premier Su Tseng-chang attending the ceremony, expressing hopes for Zhongjiao Bay to become an international surfing holy land that attracts surfers from both domestic and abroad. There are also aspirations that through Zhongjiao Elementary School and Jinshan High School, it will serve as a talent cultivation base for professional surfers, nurturing more athletes to bring glory to the country in international competitions.
