Tianjin is a land and water terminal for grain transportation in the South and silk transportation in the north after the middle of Tang Dynasty. The Jin Dynasty set up "Zhigu village" in Zhigu inTianjin. The Yuan Dynasty set up "Haijin town" in Tianjin, which was a military important town and a grain transport center. Yongle in Ming Dynasty (1404), Tianjin was officially built, which was the only city in ancient China with a definite time record. After Tianjin was established as a trading port in 1860, Western powers set up concessions here. Tianjin became the frontier of opening up in northern China and the base of modern Chinese Westernization Movement. After more than 600 years, Tianjin has been created as a unique urban with the style of combining Chinese and western, ancient and modern.
Tianjin is a major node in the economic corridor between China, Mongolia and Russia, the strategic fulcrum of the Maritime Silk Road, "One Belt And One Road" intersection, and the nearest eastern starting point of the Eurasian Land Bridge. Tianjin is located at the confluences and estuary of the five tributaries of Haihe River, namely Nan Canal, Ziya River, Daqing River, Yongding River and Bei Canal. So Tianjin is also known as "nine rivers under the top" and "the key river and sea".
Air traffic
Tianjin Binhai International Airport is located in Dongli District of Tianjin city, 13 kilometers away from the center of Tianjin city, 30 kilometers away from Tianjin port, 134 kilometers away from Beijing. It south to Jinbei highway, west to East Outer Ring Road, east 500 meters, north to Jinhan highway and Beijing Tianjin Expressway, east to Jingjintang expressway. It is a domestic trunk airport, international scheduled flight airport and national first-class air port, which is one of the major air cargo centers in China.
Railway traffic
Tianjin is not only at the intersection of Beijing Shanghai railway and Jinshan railway, but also at the intersection of Beijing Shanghai high-speed railway, Beijing Tianjin Intercity Railway, Tianjin Qinhuangdao passenger dedicated line, Tianjin Baotou passenger dedicated line and other high-speed railways. It is an important railway hub from Beijing to northeast and Shanghai.
Highway traffic
Tianjin highway system is a system with national highways and some municipal trunk lines as the skeleton and radial highways as the main part. The outer ring lines connect the radial highways. There are four national trunk lines passing through Tianjin: Jingjintang expressway, Jingfu first class automobile special road, Ladan Expressway and Jintang Branch Line of Ladan expressway. There are 5 national highways: Jingha, Jingtang, Jintong, Jinyu and Shanguang. The municipal trunk lines are: Jinwei, Jinbei, Jinggu, Jinqi, Jinhan, Jinjing, Jinzhong, Jinba, Jinyong, Jinyang, Jinlai, Jingang, etc.
Port traffic
Tianjin port is the world's highest level port, China's largest artificial deep-water port, and the world's fourth largest comprehensive port throughput. It is located in Binhai New Area. It serves and radiates 14 provinces, cities and autonomous regions in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and the central and western regions, with a total area of nearly 5 million square kilometers, accounting for 52% of the national area. It is the main sea port of Mongolia and other inland countries, and its routes reach more than 500 ports in more than 180 countries and regions in the world. Tianjin Nangang, Tianjin's second port with a throughput of 200 million tons built on the saline alkali shoal on the west coast of Bohai Sea, opened for trial navigation on August 31, 2011, also known as the Nangang District of Tianjin port.
Rail traffic
Tianjin Rail Transit includes Tianjin metro system, light rail system, guideway tram, etc. Tianjin Rail Transit Line 1, was officially put into operation on December 28, 1984, making Tianjin the second rail transit city in mainland China.
By December 2019, Tianjin Rail Transit has opened 6 metro lines, covering 11 municipal districts, with a total operating mileage of 233 km and 143 stations.
In 2019, the annual passenger volume of Tianjin rail transit will be 5250.6 million person times, and the average daily passenger volume will be about 1.4385 million person times.
The bus traffic
In 2018, Tianjin opened 95 optimized bus lines, becoming one of the first batch of national transit city demonstration cities. The annual passenger volume of public transport was 1.505 billion.
Tianjin has abundant higher education resources. There are two 985 Engineering Universities: Nankai University and Tianjin University. In addition, there are two 211 Project Universities: Tianjin Medical University and Hebei University of technology.
Tianjin has a profound historical and cultural heritage, unique natural features, and has many precious cultural relics, historical buildings and well preserved and unique historical and cultural blocks. Before opening the port, Tianjin's urban construction was concentrated in the old city area; After opening the port, the concession of each country was built independently along the sea. During the period of the Beiyang government, Hebei new area was built in the north of Haihe River. Different areas of the same city coastal river are constructed in their own styles, which constitute a unique pattern of coexistence of multi-element districts in Tianjin today. Tianjin was approved by the State Council as the second batch of national historical and cultural cities in 1986, and Yangliuqing town in Xiqing District was approved by the State Council as the fourth batch of famous historical and cultural towns in China in 2008. In 2010, xijingyu village of Jixian County was approved by the State Council as the fifth batch of famous Chinese historical and cultural villages, and the systematic terrain became the protection pattern of "one city, one town and one village". Tianjin has two world cultural heritages, namely, Tianjin section of Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal and Huangyaguan Great Wall in Jixian, 1 national scenic spot in Panshan, 14 historical and cultural blocks, One famous town of national history and culture and one famous village of national history and culture. Tianjing has 395 cultural relics protection units at or above the district level, including 28 national key cultural relics protection units, 212 cultural relics protection units in Tianjin, 155 district and county level cultural relics protection units; 258 historical buildings (including historical buildings); 37 key industrial heritage sites. There are 33 national intangible cultural heritage, 124 municipal level and more than 600 items at the district and county level, including folk literature, traditional music, traditional dance, traditional drama, quyi and traditional art in Tianjin.
Eye of Tianjin
Eye of Tianjin is the ferris wheel of Yongle bridge in Tianjin. It connects Hebei District and Hongqiao District across the Haihe River. It is a Ferris wheel of river crossing construction and integration of bridge wheel. It has the functions of sightseeing and transportation.
It is a great breakthrough in the world Ferris wheel architecture with its ingenious design. The ferris wheel has a diameter of 110 meters. It is equipped with 48 transparent cars. Each cabin can hold 8 people. The cabin is comfortable and spacious. It has air conditioning to adjust the temperature. It can provide sightseeing for 384 people at the same time. The operation time is arranged according to different seasons. The ferris wheel is driven by electricity and rotates at a constant speed, about 28 minutes for every wheel. When the cockpit reaches the highest point, passengers can see the scenery of Tianjin, and have a panoramic view of the Haihe River. Eye of Tianjin is located in the core of the golden section of the three forks of Haihe River. It is the most concentrated area of traditional culture and folk culture in Tianjin. The eye of Tianjin Ferris wheel is an outstanding masterpiece of Haihe River development with one bridge and one scene, and a bright pearl embedded in Haihe River.
Scenic line of Haihe River
Scenic line of Haihe River starts at Sanchakou, ends at Daguangming bridge, and crosses the bustling urban area of Tianjin. It is like a long landscape painting, which makes Tianjin more charming. Its beauty lies in Haihe Park, wanghailou church and Tianjin railway station. But the most nostalgic of it is that after the night falls, the sea river water flashing waves with lights on it . The bright and dim lights on both sides of the river are reflected in the river, floating like gorgeous rosy clouds. The slow flowing water sends the rosy clouds to the distant place, making people have infinite reverie. In Tianjin, it is known as "72 Gu", and Haihe River is also known as "Gushui" by some people. As a result, "Gu shuixia" spread like this.
Tianjin is located at the bottom of the nine rivers and crisscross rivers, that's why Tainjin is known as the "northern water capital". The 72 km long Haihe River, winding through the city and flowing into the Bohai Sea, has formed a unique waterway scenery tour line. After comprehensive development and transformation, Haihe River has increasingly shown its powerful service function as an economic belt, cultural belt and landscape belt. Boating on the blue waves, you can enjoy the modern urban scenery on both sides of the Haihe River. The tourism elements of food, housing, transportation, tourism, shopping and entertainment on both sides of the Strait highlight the charm of Tianjin. The Italian style scenic area, ancient culture street and other characteristic cultural tourism scenic areas along the river show the charming charm of Haihe River.
Tianjin Ancient Culture Street
Tianjin Ancient Culture Street is a national 5A scenic spot and a commercial street with Chinese characteristics which is located in the northeast and central area of Nankai District, Tianjin. It is a comprehensive cultural tourism area with integrating tourism and commerce, folk culture, shopping and leisure, fitness and entertainment, catering and accommodation. It was first formed in December 1404, relying on the Tianhou palace, which is called "gongnan" and "Gongbei" streets. In 2003, taking the comprehensive development of Haihe River in Tianjin as an opportunity, the original ancient culture street was restored according to the principle of "repairing the old as the old, improving the function", and expanded and constructed on its basis.
The ancient culture street tourist area starts from Tongbei road in the north, ends at Shuige street in the south, connects dongma road in the West and Zhangzizhong road by the sea in the East, with a total construction area of 220000 square meters. The main street of ancient culture street is 680 meters long, known as "the hometown of Jinmen". Its architectural style imitates the small buildings of Ming and Qing Dynasties. The storey height is one or two. The block is natural and straight, scattered and rhymed; The size of the eaves is moderate, and the length of shops is in order, showing the effect of ancient streets. At the north entrance of the main street stands the ancient fossils collected from Jixian County, Tianjin, which are more than 1 billion years ago and engraved with the name of "Tianjin Ancient Culture Street", and they complement each other with the street scenery of culture street. There are more than 800 pieces of antique colored paintings in the street with distinctive features, which have clear context, rich themes and colorful colors. On the west side, there are four famous Chinese works as the theme. And on the east side, there are Chinese historical stories, ancient legends and drama masterpieces as the theme. The painting of the square in front of the palace is based on Chinese ancient auspicious paintings, Tianjin Folk Customs and Chinese Peking Opera facial makeup, showing the folk customs of Tianjin Wei in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China and the quintessence of Chinese art.
Fifth Avenue tourist area
The Five Avenues in Tianjin refers to a rectangular area located south of Chengdu Road, Heping District, Tianjin, north of Machang Road, east of Xikang Road, and west of the intersection of Machang Road and Nanjing Road. There are 22 roads with a total length of 17 kilometers and a total area of 1.28 square kilometers. Historically, it was the “extra-wall promotion area” in the British concession. The terrain was low-lying and was later filled up. Architects from all over the world built houses here. Since the 1960s, the Tianjin Urban Construction Department has managed to unify the management from south to north. In the order of the east-west direction of this area, Machang Road, Munan Road, Dali Road, Changde Road, Chongqing Road, Chengdu Road, etc. are collectively referred to as the "Five Avenues" area. Today, "Five Avenues" has become synonymous with Tianjin Xiaoyang Tower.
The Five Avenues area have three characteristics. First, there are many independent residences and a small number of inner lanes. The famous buildings of celebrities are generally identified by the house number, and there is no other name and no plaque. Second, the common names of streets and lanes are mainly "li", and the name of "hutong" has disappeared here. The third is the emergence of "building", "villa", "village", "fang" and other common names for apartment estates, such as: Hong Kong Building, Race Course Villa, Cambridge Building, Anle Village, Yuwenfang, etc.
National Oceanographic Museum
The National Oceanographic Museum is located in Haibo Road, a Sino-Singapore Eco-city in Binhai New District, Tianjin. It is the first museum which is comparable to the the Palace Museum in China's history. It can be called the "Ocean Palace". It ended the history that China did not have a comprehensive National Oceanographic Museum that matches the status of a maritime power, which is also an important reason why its status is comparable to the Palace Museum. The National Oceanographic Museum undertakes the important task of reshaping China's maritime values. It is not only a cultural landmark in Tianjin Binhai New Area, but also a cultural milestone in China's maritime undertakings.
Binjiang Road
Binjiang Avenue Commercial Street is one of the most prosperous commercial streets in Tianjin. It starts from Zhangzizhong Road by the Haihe River and extends southwest to Nanjing Road, with a total length of 2094 meters. It was built in two sections. The section from Zhangzizhong Road to Dagu Road was built in 1886; the section from Dagu Road to Nanjing Road was built in 1900. In 1946, the two sections merged and named Binjiang Road.
Haihe River Cruise
The Haihe River is the largest water system in North China and one of the seven major rivers in China. It starts from Tianjin Jingang Bridge and enters Bohai Bay at Dagukou, commonly known as Tianjin's "Mother River". The beautiful scenery on both sides of the Haihe River makes it an indispensable tourist activity for Tianjin residents and tourists to Tianjin to enjoy the charm of Tianjin on the Haihe River cruise. Tianjin Haihe River Cruise is a unique tourism project in Tianjin that takes the Haihe River as the main body to enjoy and watch the beautiful scenery and architectural history and culture on both sides of the Haihe River.
Tianjin cuisine originated from the folk, gained the advantage of the geographical advantage, pioneered its own way, and formed its own system. Most of the raw materials are river and sea fresh. The taste is mainly salty, fresh, tender and light, and it is eclectic and full of changes. Representative Tianjin-style dishes in history include eight bowls, four steaks, and four treasures of winter season. Nowadays, many traditional famous dishes can be tasted in time-honored restaurants, and they are all authentic.
Tianjin has a large number of snacks and specialties, and is especially famous for its "Three Wonders in Tianjin". There are local characteristics of Tianjin with high popularity，such as Cao Ji Donkey Meat, Guanshengyuan Bazhen Lamb Leg, Luji Hot Noodle Fried Cake, Baiji Dumpling, Zhilanzhai Dry Cake, Dafulai Rice Cake, Shitomenkan Vegetarian Bun . Tianjin’s Xiaobao chestnuts are particularly famous, and their products are exported to countries all over the world. Tianjin built the Nanshi Food Street, Hotel Street, and Clothing Street in the late 1980s, integrating food, clothing and housing. More famous snacks: Stir-fried chestnuts, Mingshunzhai mixed sesame seed cake, lamb soup, Shanggangzi noodle tea, Wangji twisted (also known as steamed twist), Douxiangzhai beef ring, bean curd ring, Baiji dumplings, Water-boiled belly, fried stew, fancy mozzarella, strange-flavored nuts, Shitomenkan Subao, Luohan Tripe, cooked pear cake, Pitang Zhang, Beitang seafood, etc.
Twist
Goubuli Bun
Chinese savior crepe
Cross talk uses laughter and anger to understand the world and understand life. It originated in Beijing and prospered in Tianjin. The city of Tianjin has a strong mark in the history of Chinese cross talk. After the 1920s , many crosstalk artists came to Tianjin from the flyover in Beijing. They first began to perform on the ground, and gradually entered tea houses and theaters. They reached their peak in the 1940s and then went into a trough until ten years ago. The cross talk began to come back to life again. In Tianjin, people can not only hear cross talk on the radio and see cross talk on the TV at any time, but they can also enjoy the cross talk at close range in the tea house theater. It can be said that cross talk, the art of laughter, has become an indispensable part of Tianjin people's lives.
There are no less than a dozen crosstalk teahouses in Tianjin with a certain scale. Among them, the celebrity teahouses near Quanyechang and Qianxiangyiwenyuan on Guyi Street all have teahouses with more than 100 people. There are about a hundred actors engaged in professional cross talk in Tianjin, bringing fun to the audience in different cross talk teahouses every day.
