Beijing New Concept Tourism Base of Survival Island [Beijing]

It is within the Hongluo Mount Tourism Development Zone in Huairou of Beijing, about 45 kilometers away from the downtown. Route: Go along the Jingmi Road to Huairou; turn left at the ring crossing; turn right at the first traffic light; drive to Fule Roundabout and turn northwards; turn left before arriving at the railway bridge. It is a large-scale base providing creating, exercising, aesthetic appreciation, vacation and training activities. It was open at the end of 1998.

The survival island has an area of 500,000 square meters, providing five categories of activities including survival and outward bound training, new concept travel, group recreation, self rescue training for students, and old cadres¡¯ recreation. Survival and outward bound training: It is a kind of education through experience, and a training of people‘s psychological quality. Different from traditional education form, it utilizes natural environment and carefully designed activities, so as to allow participants to understand the principles by themselves, so as to develop potentials, challenge limits, cultivate taste, anneal wills, perfect personality and build the team. The project has a unique creativity, integrating education, interaction, challenge and practicability, and covering the essences of management, psychology, dynamics, and organizational behavioral study. The teaching contents, aiming at different fields and meeting different requirements, include: A new start¨Ctraining for new employees, building a new team---training for team spirit, new concept of management---training for leadership, improving mindset---training for government employees. Based on the theory in the book of The Fifth Discipline, integrating the NLP at the frontier of psychological study, this project meets the requirements of the times, promotes a series of courses under the assistance of experts, and helps you surpass yourself, learn how to ¡°study in a group, improve your mode of thinking¡±, and establish initial study-type organization by using systematic thinking, so it is a brand new learning and training method for modern people and modern organizations.

New concept travel: It is different from traditional travel mode. One would feel the cultural and artistic taste, learn knowledge and cultivate interests. There are four districts here: Handicraft park: integrating pottery making, dyeing and knitting, carpentry, plaster molding, wax molding, etc. Agricultural district: culture without soil, model making, rope art, stone grinded bean curd, and making ice-cream and cakes, etc. They are perfect combination of traditional arts and modern high technology, as well as an exhibition of your skills. Military and sports district: rock climbing, prompt landing, driving of vehicles, flying axes, arrow shooting, etc. Mountainous area training camp: rolling bridge, foot log, crawling with arms, hidden channel, climbing iron ropes, climbing meshwork, rotating ladder, etc. These projects allow you to feel who the brave is, the strong is and the wise man is.

Group recreation: Participated by all, it is carefully designed, with great interests, requiring interaction and competition. It aims at relieving pressure and amusing all participants. It includes the activities of walking in space, hard steps, weight relay, moving the mount, dragon boat racing, leaping in a wise way, dynamic train, steeplechase, groping for loach, etc. One may choose what activity to take part in.

Students’self-rescue training: It is a series of activities designed to overcome the disadvantages of minors such as poor independence, unsociable and fragile characteristics. Through the simulation of natural disasters and emergencies, it helps youngsters to understand and grasp basic skills of survival and self-rescue, strengthen the students’ability to cope with dangerous and hard situations. There are activities of escape from chimney, escape by climbing walls, building bridges to cross river, fetching water among thorns, escape on cliffs, jumping over entrenchment, making rope ladders, fire extinguishing, etc.

Old carders‘ recreation: It is a series of activities specially designed for aged men in Beijing, including crickets, labyrinth, purography, bandhnu, pottery, miniascape, mountain climbing, etc. The senior citizens can display their artistic talents, do physical exercises, and recollect their early lives. It conforms to the requirements of a harmonious society.

The Survival Island is not only suitable for sightseeing, but also different from natural scenery and human scenery. Since 1999, activities including Survival extension training¡±, learning to survive, winter and summer camps, comprehensive quality training have attracted a great deal of governmental departments, enterprises, schools and professional training organizations, and are widely acknowledged by the society.