In front of Zhaogezhuang Mine History Exhibition Hall in Kailuan, a huge statue stands in the middle of the courtyard. The statue is dressed in miners' clothes, holding the armband of the workers' picket, angular face and bright eyes. There are three Chinese characters engraved on the pedestal of the statue-Xie Zhenguo, which is the name of an anti-Japanese hero who is well-known in eastern Hebei. Xie Zhenguo, an anti-Japanese hero in Zhaogezhuang Coal Mine, Kailuan, Tangshan, is almost a household name.
Comrade Hou Zhanyou, a national model worker, is also a miner in Zhaogezhuang, Kailuan.
Haoran, a famous old writer, was also born in Zhaogezhuang. Zhaogezhuang is a typical mining town. The urban area was built on Zhaogezhuang Mine in Kailuan in history, and now it has large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises such as Zhaogezhuang Mining Company of Kailuan Group, Chemical Company of Kailuan Group, Sanyou Mining Company of Sanyou Group and Sanyou Cement Company of Jidong.