Where Tianjin Began
Three rivers meeting, a Jin stockade of 1214, and a junction that moved a kilometre in the 1920s.
Hebei District lies in the north-east of central Tianjin and is named for its position on the north bank of the Hai River. It covers 27.93 square kilometres, stretching 6.94 kilometres north to south and 7.95 kilometres east to west, and at the 2020 census it counted 647,702 residents, 30.98 per cent of them over sixty. Four of the city's sights stand inside it: the Tianjin Eye, the Italian Style Town, the Dabei Monastery and Beining Park. Its modern role in the municipal plan is creativity, which follows from its fabric: the Italian concession, the 1902 Hebei New District that Yuan Shikai laid out, and the older temple and church ground at Sanchahekou.
Three rivers meeting, a Jin stockade of 1214, and a junction that moved a kilometre in the 1920s.
The junction of three rivers that the sources call the earliest birthplace of Tianjin.
A 120-metre wheel built into Yongle Bridge, the only Ferris wheel in the world standing on a bridge.
The city's first station, opened in 1888, with a 66-metre clock tower facing the river.
A Catholic church burned in 1870 and twice again, rebuilt for the third time in 1904.
A Chan temple of 10,600 square metres begun in 1658, holding a seven-metre Qing Sakyamuni.
Italy's only concession in China, 771 mu laid out around a square, now a 4A quarter.
The exhibition ground Yuan Shikai planned in 1902, renamed for Sun Yat-sen.