Taiwanese media look at the mainland: the first beach in the world

BEIJING, Beijing, February 19 (Xinhua) Recently, Taiwan Province’s United Daily News published a report about Beihai City in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, introducing the beautiful scenery of Yintan.
Guangxi Beihai Yintan. Image source: Taiwan Province United Daily News
The report pointed out that Beihai, a coastal city surrounded by the sea on three sides, is a famous historical and cultural city, and was selected as one of the top ten "Beautiful Cities" in China. Guangxi prides itself on "Guilin landscape in the north and Beihai Silver Beach in the south". The beach of Yintan is made of high-quality quartz sand. Under the sunshine, the white and delicate beach will glow with silver, so it is called Yintan, which enjoys the reputation of "the first beach in the world" and is one of the most ideal bathing beaches and sea sports venues in the south.
Silver beach beach. Image source: Taiwan Province United Daily News
Silver Beach is characterized by "long flat beach, fine white sand, clean water temperature, soft waves and no sharks", which experts call "a rare and excellent beach in the world". Yintan stretches 24 kilometers from east to west, with a total area of 38 square kilometers, exceeding the sum of beaches in Dalian, Yantai, Qingdao, Xiamen and Beidaihe. The land is rich in vegetation and the environment is elegant and quiet.
Yintan is rich in vegetation. Image source: Taiwan Province United Daily News
Beihai Yintan Resort consists of Yintan Park, Beach Park and Ocean Sports Holiday Entertainment Center. In addition to marine activities, tourists can also participate in beach sports such as golf, volleyball and football, and watch large-scale music fountain shows.
Beach Park is an important part of Yintan Resort, in which the bathing beach is 1,500 meters long and the lawn is 100,000 square meters, which is huge. In addition to the bathing beach, there is also the "tide" of steel and plastic in Asia. "Tide" sculpture combines lighting, fountains and music performances to form a multimedia outdoor show, which has become a highlight of Yintan at night.
Giant stainless steel sculpture "Chao". Image source: Taiwan Province United Daily News
The "Tide" sculpture is a hollow steel ball with a diameter of 20 meters, symbolizing the pearl. There are seven statues of beautiful girls on the sphere, which are like fairies descending to the world, with a musical fountain, showing the elegance of going to sea and the rhythm of the tide. In addition, there are 30 moon tide lights around the sculpture. The moon and the pearl are combined, and the stars shine. The whole square is like a jade plate full of pearls, which is spread out by the sea and beautiful. (End)
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