 The history of Tianjin city begins with
the opening of Sui Dynasty's Big Canal. Tianjin
became the home and water dock for food and silk transportation
from the south to north since mid-Tang Dynasty.
It had been known as 'Zhigu Stockade' in Song , Jin Dynasties,
and changed into 'Haijin Town' in Yuan Dynasty. At that
time, it was one of the most important military towns
and canal-food transportation center.
In the second year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (1404), the
city was established with defense walls and then called
' Tianjin Wei'. Since 17th century, its economy and society
developed fast, and the city's size had been enlarged
continually. In 1860, it was appointed as a business and
communication center. Being the second largest industry
and business city and the finance, trade center of the
north, its industrial production and trade volume listed
merely next to Shanghai.
In 1931, there were over 17,000 firms in Tianjin and about
4,000 industrial and handicraft shops that mainly dealt
with machine-repairing. The export volume was 25% of the
nation's total amount. In 1935, Tianjin had ten domestic-invested
banks ,93 branches and offices and 16 foreign-invested
ones.
When the People's Republic of China established in 1949,
Tianjin City's area was 61km2 with 1,790,000 residents.
Then in 1973, after several times administrative area
modifications, the present administrative distribution
of districts, counties ,etc,.were set up. |
 Tianjin used to be a vast sea with no
land or people lived on. Its landscape was formed gradually
over long time of land reshaping and the withdrawal
of the sea.
Geology Structure
Tianjin area is made up of remote antiquity division,
antiquity division, ancient division, mid division and
new division stratums. Tianjin lies at the joint part
of two structural systems----Yan Mountain Latitudinal
structural system and New Huaxia structural system.
Tianjin urban district stands on the northern point
of the bulging Cang County.
Land Countenance
Tianjin's land countenance has the characteristic of
higher north & west, lower south & east. The
Eight Immortals Table ( alias: Grasshopper Cage ), the
highest peak's elevation is as high as 1,052 meters
and Dagukou, the lowest place's elevation is zero. There
are altogether four types of land countenances: mountain
lands, hills, plains and coastlands. The mountain lands'
area is approximately 651km2, occupying 5.75% of the
total area and scattering in the north part of Ji County.
The hills' elevations are below 200m, the relative height
is 50-100m and scatter in the south side of Ji County's
Yan Mountain. Plains are Tianjin lands' main parts,
covering 10,664km2 , occupying 94% of the total area
and scattering from the south of Yan Mountain to the
vast regions on Bohai Sea banks.
Climate
Tianjin situates on the east bank of Euro-Asia Continent
which belongs to the mid latitude. The four seasons
are obviously different and the scenery is various.
It stands on the transitional belt between continental
climate and oceanic climate, belonging to the semi-moist
warm monsoon climatic zone. The main characteristic
is notable monsoon and distinguish temperature variation.
In winter, the wind is mostly northward, it's cold,
dry and the precipitation is very small; in summer,
the wind is mostly southeastward or southward, the temperature
is rather high and the precipitation is concentrated.
The average annual temperature is above 110C , the average
no-frost period is about 190 days, the average annual
precipitation is about 600mm and the average annual
sun-shining time amounts to 2610 - 3090 hours.
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Tianjin,
known as the Bright Diamond of Bohai Gulf and the gateway
to the Capital of the People's Republic of China, is one
of the biggest business and industrial port cities with
a long history in China. As the biggest port city in North
China Tianjin under the leadership of Tianjin Municipal
Party Committee and the Municipal Government held tight
with Deng Xiaoping theoretical banner, are working hard
to build Tianjin into a big international modern city.
Old businesses have been transformed into modern and profitable
enterprises; new areas developed in waste beaches; millions
of citizens moved to new houses; multi-corporations, joint-ventures
and sole-owned foreign companies established within twenty
years of reforming and door-opening. Today 9,500,000 Tianjin
people under the leadership of the Party Central Committee
with Zemin Jiang as the core leader are confident to bring
Tianjin to the new millennium for a brighter and more
prosperous future.