A museum featuring China’s reform and opening up at Sea World in Shekou will open to the public Tuesday.
As China’s first museum on the theme of reform and opening up, the museum will exhibit many historical documents and use audiovisual and interactive technologies to represent historical moments, and lead visitors through the memorable years in Shekou during the early stage of China’s reform and opening up.
The museum restores the original scenes of Deng Xiaoping’s first inspection tour in the south in 1984 and historic moments of State leaders hearing reports from Yuan Geng, the founder of the Shekou Industrial Zone and a reform trailblazer, about the development of the Shekou Industrial Zone.
The ground-breaking blast in Shekou in July 1979, which heralded China’s reform and opening up and marked the start of the construction of the Shekou Industrial Zone, was known to the public as a photo and a several-second-long video clip. But inside the museum, a vivid scene incorporating a dimensional design environment and supported by high technology enables visitors to feel the shock of the historic moment. The museum also created a life-sized model of the command office that was set up inside a container.
The museum reflects on the actual situation in Shekou during the 1980s and 1990s, the fast development of Shekou, as the cradle of the country’s industrial boom and the test tube for changes, through the exhibition of photos, objects, documents and letters. The items of ordinary workers that are on display, including their working cards, certificates, products and trophies, represent this pioneering period.