Tianjin is part of China’s Bohai Bay area. Earmarked as a strategic component of the 11th Five-Year Plan, Bohai Bay is now a rising northern economic powerhouse that rivals both the Pearl and Yangtze River deltas.
Tianjin has a population of 14.7m people,
and is the third-largest urban area in China after Beijing and
Shanghai. It has traditionally acted as a port for Beijing, 120 km to
the north-west. A popular saying encompasses the relation between history and urban transformation:
If you want to understand 5,000 years of Chinese civilisation look
at Xi’an, 1,000 years look at Beijing, modern China look at Tianjin.
The city of Tianjin occupies a unique position in Chinese history: it at Xi’an, 1,000 years look at Beijing, modern China look at Tianjin.
represents an unparalleled microcosm of the world in the late-imperial
and republican eras, encompassing both the height and the decline of the
age of imperialism (1860–1945). In the second half of the 19th century,
it became the most important commercial city in northern China, having
been opened as a treaty port in 1860. This was a consequence of the Treaty of Beijing that the defeated Qing Government was forced to sign at the end of the Second Opium War (1856-60).
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