Capital Steel Factory 首钢主厂区

This is the former location of Shougang Company Ltd, a pig-iron plant originally founded in 1919. It became the largest steel mill in the country, sprawling from the suburbs over 8.56sqm, the size of 2.7 Summer Palaces. At its peak in the 1990s, it had an annual output of 10 million tons and offered “iron rice bowls” to more than 200,000 workers. Nowadays it attracts tourists and photographers for its magnificent displays of urban decay.