Zhongjiao Bay Visitor Center Introduction
Located at kilometer 39 of Taiwan Highway 2, Zhongjiao Bay features a concave shoreline at the bay mouth, along with beautiful towering waves stirred by the seasonal northern winds, making it the most renowned surfing paradise on the northern coast. Every holiday, many surfers gather here to ride the waves, presenting a unique surfing spectacle. To enhance the surfing environment at Zhongjiao Bay and promote tourism development on the northern coast, and in light of surfing being included as one of the five additional events in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Premier Su Tseng-chang of the Executive Yuan inspected Zhongjiao Bay in Jinshan on January 18, 2019, accompanied by various relevant ministries, including the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and the Ministry of Education, instructing that Zhongjiao Bay be developed as an international surfing base for the training of surfing athletes. Subsequently, on January 25, 2019, Minister Lin Chia-lung of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications convened relevant agencies, including the Ministry of Education, the Agricultural Committee (now the Ministry of Agriculture), the National Development Council, and the Tourism Bureau (now the Tourism Administration) to coordinate and establish a surfing training base centered around Zhongjiao Elementary School. Without altering the terrain and landscape, plans were proposed to build a visitor center and surfing service center next to the beach at Zhongjiao Bay, with the aim of designating it 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 opening ceremony. It is hoped that Zhongjiao Bay will become a sacred place for international surfing, attracting surfing enthusiasts from both domestic and abroad to engage in surfing activities. Furthermore, through Zhongjiao Elementary School and Jinshan High School, it aims to serve as a nurturing ground for professional surfing talents, cultivating more surfers to bring glory to the nation on the international stage.
