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As one of the four municipalities of the People's Republic of China , Tianjin is located in the northeastern coastal area, with Yan Mountain to the north and Bohai-Bay to the east. Tianjin is 120km from Beijing , and is 190km in length and 100km in width. With 12000 square meter of area, Tianjin stands the 15th largest city in the world and is one of the outstanding cities in tourism in China . Haihe River , the 6th biggest river in China , flows through the center of the city and gives birth to the city's 9 million residents and its unique customs and culture as well. Ranging from Tianjin 's cuisine of food, art to its exotic style of architecture, Tianjin has so many great features to offer, no matter what your interest is, you'll sure be intoxicated with this 600-years-old city's charms everywhere.
Tianjin is the largest coastal city in the Northern part of China , and is also the economic center of Bohai rim area. The establishment of Tianjin Economic Technological Development Area, Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone, Tianjin New Technology Industrial Park and development districts of other boroughs and counties, provides a sound condition to Tianjin while it is opening to the world. The major exports of Tianjin are chemicals, food, hardware products, clothes, mechanical and electric products, textiles, steel products, pure alkali, grains, and chemical fertilizer etc. Those commodities have been exported to many countries in the world such as U.S.A. , UK , Germany , Japan , Korea etc. Now 93 enterprises of the Fortune top 500 enterprises have invested in Tianjin .
After many years of fundamental development, Tianjin has a highly developed three-dimensional transportation network centered by Xingang Port which is the largest integrated trade port in Northern China , and is the primary harbor in the north and northwest of China . Xingang also opens more than 10 new shipping lines to the Red Sea , west coast of the United States and Southeast Asia , so now it already has more than 70 lines in all. Xingang boasts the biggest container terminal in China with 108 berths, among 55 of them are beyond the level of 10000 tons. Xingang is also conducting foreign trade with more than 300 ports in 160 countries and regions in the world. The throughput of Xingang has exceeded 0.18 billion tons, and 3800 thousand containers which ranks top 3 within the country. It provides the excellent services for the Beijing-Tianjin Bohai economic zone, as well as the northern and northwestern China . Last year the loading and discharging of cargo for inland China reached 2/3 of its total amount of cargo.
Tianjin Binhai International Airport has 43 international and domestic flight courses. The operating strategy of Binhai International Airport focuses on cargo shipping with running passenger-carrying business concurrently. It's aiming to become the aeronautical transportation center in the northern area of China . Tianjin is the intersection of Beijin-Shandong railroad and Beijing-Shanghai railroad, and is also the hub of the railroad transportation system in northern China . Tianjin 's highways extend in all directions including 6 state-level highways which connect to inland China . In addition to Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone, Tianjin Airport Industrial Park and Tianjin Airport International Logistics Zone have also been built respectively which made Tianjin have a perfect logistic system now.
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