Zhongan Bay Visitor Center Introduction
Located at kilometer 39 of Taiwan's Provincial Highway 2, Zhongjiao Bay features a concave sandy shoreline and is known for its beautiful high waves created by the seasonal northern winds, making it a famous surfing paradise on the northern coast. Many surfers gather here during holidays to ride the waves, creating a unique surfing spectacle. To enhance the surfing environment of Zhongjiao Bay and promote tourism development in the northern coast, and in response to the inclusion of surfing as one of the five new events in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Premier Su Tseng-chang visited Zhongjiao Bay in Jinshan on January 18, 2019, along with relevant departments such as the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and the Ministry of Education, and the Mayor of New Taipei City, Hou You-ih. He 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 a coordinating meeting with the Ministry of Education, the Council of Agriculture (now the Ministry of Agriculture), the National Development Council, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, the Highway Administration (now the Directorate General of Highways), and the Tourism Bureau (now the Tourism Administration), forming a collaborative approach to establish a surfing training base centered around Zhongjiao Elementary School. Plans were made to build a visitor center and surfing service center next to the Zhongjiao Bay beach without harming the natural topography, positioning Zhongjiao Bay as an "international-class surfing base." The Zhongjiao Bay international surfing base was officially inaugurated on December 22, 2019, with Premier Su Tseng-chang attending the ceremony, expressing hope that Zhongjiao Bay would become an international surfing mecca, attracting surfing enthusiasts from both domestic and international locales to engage in surfing activities. It is also anticipated that Zhongjiao Elementary School and Jinshan Senior High School will serve as training grounds for professional surfing talent, nurturing more surfers to represent the country on the international stage.
