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Tianjin Brief Introduction

Geographic Location

Tianjin is located in the lower reaches of the Haihe River, spanning both sides of the Haihe River, with the Haihe River, Ziya Xinhe, Duliuzhong River, Yongding Xinhe, Chaobai Xinhe and Jijie Canal flowing into the sea through the territory. The city center is 50 kilometers away from the coast and 120 kilometers away from the capital city of Beijing, which is the main gateway to Beijing from the sea, and has been the gateway to Beijing since ancient times. Tianjin is also a transportation hub connecting the three northern regions - North China, Northeast China and Northwest China. From Tianjin to Shenyang in Northeast China, Baotou in Northwest China, and to Xuzhou and Zhengzhou in South China, the straight-line distance is less than 600 kilometers. Tianjin is also a dozen provinces and cities in the north to the sea of the main transportation channel, with the largest artificial port in the north - Tianjin Port, there are more than 30 sea routes to more than 300 international ports, from the other side of the Pacific Ocean to the Eurasian inland the main channel and the Eurasian Continental Bridge, the main sea port. Its geographic location has a significant advantage, and its strategic position is very important.

Climate

Tianjin is located in the mid-latitude on the east coast of the Eurasian continent, facing the Pacific Ocean, the monsoon circulation has a significant impact on the winter by the Mongolian cold high pressure control, the prevalence of northerly winds; summer by the subtropical high pressure in the western Pacific Ocean, more southerly winds. Tianjin's climate is a warm temperate semi-humid continental monsoon type climate, there is a clear transition from land to sea features: four seasons are obvious, the length of time; precipitation is not much, the distribution is not uniform; monsoon is significant, the sunshine is more adequate; located in the coastal area, the continental nature of the strong. The average annual temperature is 12.3 ℃. July is the hottest month, the average monthly temperature can reach 26 ℃; January is the coldest month, the average monthly temperature is -4 ℃. The average annual precipitation is 550-680 millimeters, and the summer precipitation accounts for about 80% of the annual precipitation.

Land

The soil in the mountains of Jixian County in the north of Tianjin is a thin layer of residual soil formed by the weathering of rocks, while the rest of the area is soil developed from Quaternary sediments, which is highly fertile in agricultural production. The city has 671,700 hectares of agricultural land and 459,000 hectares of non-agricultural land. There are still more than 120 square kilometers of wasteland mudflats to be developed in the coastal area downstream of the Haihe River.

Mineral Resources

More than 20 kinds of mineral resources with mining value have been discovered. There are mainly manganese, manganese boronite, gold, tungsten, molybdenum, copper, aluminum, zinc, limestone, marble, mafic stone, barite, natural oil and stone and other metals and non-metals, fuel mines are mainly oil and natural gas, buried in the plains underground and the Bohai Sea continental shelf and so on.

Water resources

Tianjin spans both sides of the Haihe River, which is the largest river in North China, with more than 300 tributaries over 10 kilometers long upstream, joining the North Canal, Yongding River, Daqing River, Ziya River and South Canal near the middle reaches of the river, and the five rivers merge into the main stream of the Haihe River at the Three Forks of the Haihe River near the Tianjin Jingang Bridge, which enters the sea at the mouth of the Dagu River. The total length of the main stream of 72 kilometers, the average river width of 100 meters, the depth of 3-5 meters, the history of the river navigation 3,000 tons of sea vessels.

The Luan Luan into Tianjin water transfer project is a large-scale water conservancy project built in Tianjin in the 80's, to bring water to Tianjin, and every year to Tianjin, 1 billion cubic meters of water per year to Tianjin. Tianjin groundwater reserves are rich, mountainous areas of karst fissure water, water quality is the best, low mineralization, spring flow is generally 7.2-14.6 tons / hour, the rainy season up to 720-800 tons / hour. The city has a library of large reservoirs 3, with a total capacity of 340 million.

Biological resources

The coastal zone more saline-tolerant plants. Trees have ash, acacia, tsubaki, willow, poplar, paulownia, etc.; in recent years, the development of pears, jujube, apricot, peach, grapes, apples and other fruits. There are reeds, calamus and artificially cultivated diamonds and lotus roots growing in the waterlogged depressions. The northern mountains are rich in oil pine, cypress walnut, chestnut, red fruit, persimmon. There are a certain number of, wild animals mostly of the plains grassland type, such as wild goats, roe deer, hedgehogs, squirrels and birds. Land-based pits, ponds and reservoirs have freshwater fish counting about 30 species or so, with more production of carp, green, grass, chub, pike and other fish species.

Environmental conditions

At present, the city has 20 environmental monitoring stations, the creation of national environmental protection model city six projects are progressing well. The quality of the atmospheric environment continues to improve, the average value of respirable particulate matter decreased by 3.6% compared with the previous year. The number of days with air quality above the second-grade good level for the year was 264, accounting for 72.3% of the total number of days in the year. There are 60 smog control zones and 557.3 square kilometers of smog control area.

The city has 6 ecological demonstration zones, 8 nature reserves and 153,300 hectares of nature reserves. The Jixian National Geopark was built with the Jixian Middle and Upper Yuangujian Geological Nature Reserve as the core.

Tourism resources Tianjin has many historical sites and rich excavated relics, with 40 national and municipal key cultural relics protection units. Among them is the Dule Temple, a large wooden structure temple built in the Sui Dynasty, which has a history of more than 1,000 years. There is the Huangyaguan Great Wall in Jixian County, which is 41 kilometers long and has more than 1,000 ancient platforms of different shapes, which is steep and majestic, and is known as the "Lock and Key of Jibei". Jixian Panshan, known as "the first mountain in the east of Beijing", has a majestic mountainous terrain, with layers and layers of beautiful mountains, where the architecture and the natural landscape blend into one. In addition, there are the Tianhou Palace, the Temple of Literature, the Da Bei Yuan, the Great Mosque, the Tianzun Pavilion, the Tiancheng Temple, the Dagu Kou Fortress, the Wang Hailou Church, the Guangdong Guild Hall, and the Memorial Hall for the Revolutionary Activities of Zhou Enlai's Youth in Tianjin, and so on.

Tianjin's architecture is characterized by the coexistence of ancient and modern buildings, and is known as the "Museum of Universal Architecture". Due to the early opening of the port, and there are nine countries in the concession, characterized by different styles of small buildings, retained the late nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century of the East and West countries of all kinds of buildings more than a thousand.

Tianjin has four major folk arts that are famous all over the world. The "Mud Man Zhang" colorful sculpture art is famous throughout the country and the world." Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings" has a long history and is favored by international friends." Wei Ji Kites" won the gold medal at the Panama International Exposition in 1914. The architectural brick carvings represented by "Carved Brick Liu" have made brick carving in Tianjin a unique folk architectural craft in China.

Population and Administrative Regions

Demographics At the end of 2005, the city's resident population was 10.2 million, with a household population of 9.5 million, of which 3.85 million were agricultural and 5.65 million were non-agricultural. Ethnicity and ethnic distribution in Tianjin*** There are 41 ethnic minorities in Tianjin, with a total population of 220,000 ethnic minorities.

Administrative divisions: Tianjin now has 15 districts: Heping, Hedong, Nankai, Hesi, Heibei, Hongqiao, Tanggu, Hangu, Dagang, Dongli, Xiqing, Jinnan, Beichen, Wuqing District (Yangcun Township), Baodi District (Chengguan Township); and 3 counties: Jinghai County (Jinghai Township), Ninghe County (Lutai Township), and Ji County (Chengguan Township).

Economy

The city's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the whole year of 2005 amounted to RMB 366.386 billion, an increase of 14.5% over the previous year at comparable prices. The city's per capita GDP reached 35,457 yuan, or about 4,328 U.S. dollars, an increase of 12.8 percent. The city's annual revenue exceeded 70 billion yuan, reaching 72.552 billion yuan.

Transportation Railway

The first phase of the 150,000-ton waterway of Tianjin Port and the Beida Breakwater Project were completed. Tianjin Port has established business connections with more than 300 ports in more than 160 countries and regions in the world. Railroad Tianjin Railway Hub is the intersection of the two major railroad lines of Beijing-Shanghai and Beijing-Shanghai, and the hub of railroad transportation in northern China. Tianjin highway network density of the country's first, there are currently Jin Ji, Jin Shen, Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan, Jin Bin, Jin Hu, Jin Jin, Jin Bao, Jin Tang 8 highway. Tianjin highway is well-connected, Jingtang, Beijing-Harbin, Tianjin-Yuyuan, Beijing-Fuzhou, Beijing-Zi, Beijing-Tongzhou 6 national highways through Tianjin, Tianjin and the three northeastern provinces, North China, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Guangdong and Fujian provinces and regions of the highway traffic exchanges, the city has built a 3 ring road, expressway, 14 radial lines as the skeleton of the city's road network.

Administrative overview

Heping District: Tianjin's commercial center, the district includes the "Eastern Wall Street" known as Jiefang Beilu Financial Street, Gold Street Heping Road, Silver Street Riverside Road, Xiaobailou Foreign Commercial District, Nanjing Road Business Center District, Anshan Road, a street of telecommunication equipment, as well as the Department Store Building, Persuasion Field, Zhongyuan Commercial Mansion, Isetan, International Sete, Binjiang Commercial Mansion and other high-grade shopping centers and the new Binjiang Jinyao Plaza, Wanda Commercial Plaza and other commercial outlets. Tourist attractions in the district include: the Five Avenues, Garden Road style architectural area, the Center Culture Square, Food Street and so on.

Hexi District: the center of foreign business tours and accommodation in Tianjin. Including: Tianjin CBD, Youyi Road foreign-related hotel service area, Tianjin National Exhibition Center, and the Golden Emperor Building, Asia-Pacific Building, Bohai Center Plaza, Tianjin Hotel, Crystal Palace Hotel and other high-grade office buildings and foreign-related star hotels. Commercial outlets in the area include: Youyi Commercial Building, Hualu Department Store, Hong Kong Style Street on Dagu Road, Youyi Road Style Street, Bar Street, and Jiale Supermarket, Lianhua Supermarket, Dazhong Electric Appliances and other Lianxiao business models. The district's tourist attractions are: Tianta Lake style area, Nature Museum, Science and Technology Museum, Tianjin Museum and so on.

Nankai District: the cultural center of Tianjin, the district has a nationally renowned Tianjin University, Nankai University, Normal University, Polytechnic Institute and other institutions of higher learning, as well as the Ancient Culture Street, Gulou Commercial Street, and other cultural and tourist attractions, but also has a water park, Changhong Park, Zhou Deng Memorial Museum, the Guangdong Association Hall. The commercial centers of the district are: Dongma Road Commercial Street, Haiguang Temple Commercial Area, Nanma Road Hardware City, Clothing Street and so on. Meanwhile, the Olympic Sports Center, the venue for the 2008 Olympic Games in Tianjin, is also in the district.

Hedong District: the district for the city center and the Binhai New Area, the liaison zone of the internal and external transportation developed. There are a number of high-speed expressway and light rail lines to Tanggu District, Free Trade Zone, Development Zone. Eleven by the road for the district's busy commercial center, which has: People's Insurance Building, Wanlong Building, Tianxing Riverside Plaza, Drugs Mansion and other commercial grade office buildings, shopping centers.

Hebei District: Zhongshan Road in the district is a century-old cultural and commercial district. Meanwhile, the district also has sightseeing and tourism attractions such as Wanghai Tower, Da Bei Yuan and Beining Park. Tianjin Station in the district is the largest transportation hub to all parts of the country.

Hongqiao District: The district has a nearly 100 years of commercial history of the Estimated Clothing Street, Dahutong, Hebei Street and other commercial streets, as well as the newly built Kellett Sai Mall, Dahutong Trade Center, Tianyi Commercial Building, Metro supermarkets, Carrefour Xiquandao supermarkets and other commercial outlets. Tourist attractions in the district include Xigu Park and Lv Zu Tang.

Tanggu District, Hangu District, Dagang District: Tianjin's emerging coastal city, but also Tianjin's largest economic growth point. Among them, the comprehensive ranking of the country's first Tianjin Development Area, Free Trade Zone, China's largest artificial port --- Tianjin Port, Dagang Oilfield, Bohai Petrochemical Group is located in the new area. Commercial outlets in the new area include: Tanggu Foreign Goods Market, Jiefang Road Commercial Pedestrian Street, Hangu Jinxiang Shopping Center and so on. Tourist attractions include: Beitang Fishing Village, Bohai Children's World, Dagu Kou Fortress and Century Avenue.

Jinnan, Dongli, Xiqing, Beichen, Wuqing, Baodi: for the ring of satellite urban areas, which tourist attractions are Dongli Lake Resort, Yangliuqing Shijia compound, Forest Park, Yangcun small world, small swan resort, etc.. There are also Xiqing Development Zone, Wuqing Yixian Park, Dasi Industrial Zone, etc. for the emerging economic growth point.