Geography & Climate
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Tianjin is located at the center of Bohai rim economic zone, northeast of North China Plain, between 38°34’N—40°15’N and 116°43’E—118°04’E, belonging to 8th eastern international time zone. Total administrative region covers an area of 11,760 km2, about 120 km to Beijing, the capital of China. Tianjin is a significant transportation hub and a sea port in north China.
Located on the east coast of mid-latitude Euro-Asia Continent and mainly influenced by monsoon circulation, Tianjin is an area full of East Asian monsoon, and has sub-humid continental monsoon climate. In average, its annual precipitation is 520mm to 660mm, 85% of which in summer and autumn, sunshine time between 2,500 –2,900 hours and average wind speed of 2.3 meters per second. Its annual average temperature is between 11.4℃—12.9℃. The coldest time is January, with an average temperature of -3℃—-5℃, while the hottest in July, with average temperature of 26℃—27℃. The colorful, fresh and bright autumn is the best season in the whole year, thus the best time to visit and enjoy your holiday in Tianjin.
Tianjin enjoys a rich supply of land resources, including farming land 7,067 km2 and non-farming land 3,487 km2. The water resources in Tianjin are relatively inadequate. The initiatives of diverting water from the Luanhe River and Yellow River to Tianjin, Sea Water Desalination and South-to-North Water Diversion Project have effectively relieved its want of water. Tianjin possesses rich mineral resources falling into 35 types (45 subtypes), in which, Manganese and Boron were not only first discovered in Tianjin, but also very rare in the world. Fuel mines here include petroleum, natural gas and coal-formed gas, etc, mainly imbedded in the plain area and the Bohai Continental Shelf. The energy resources exploited include Bohai Oil Field and Dagang Oil Field. The terrestrial heat resources in Tianjin underground are widely available, the area where terrestrial heat is supplied in Tianjin accounts for 50% of the total in China. Tianjin is also a major source of sea salt, ac-counting for 10% of the total output in China.
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Transportation
Tianjin, being close to the sea and with the river going through it, ad-jacent to Beijing, is the heart of rim Bohai Economic Belt and Jing-Jin-Ji Urban Agglomeration, backed by the northwest, northeast and north of China and facing Northeast Asia, Tianjin is a significant hub connect-ing home and abroad, south and north as well as east and west, and as the closest start point of east of the Euro-Asia Continental Bridge, also a key port for the neighboring inland countries.
A highly developed transportation system has taken shape in Tianjin, which, with the port as its center, integrates the sea, land and air transportation effectively. Tianjin Port is the largest artificial deep water port in the world, possessing the largest container dock in China. The port is among World Top 10 of its kind in terms of goods throughput. It links more than 400 ports of over 180 countries and regions. In 2008, Tianjin Port realized a goods throughput of 356 million tons and a container throughput of over 8.5 million TEUs, both of the best level in history. Regarding air transportation, the Tianjin Binhai International Airport, one of the modern large-scale international airports in China, has nearly hundreds of international and domestic airlines. Its new terminal has been in use in April 2008, bringing new opportunity for its develop-ment. As for railway transportation, Tianjin is a hub of the railway system connecting many railways, such as Jingshan, Jingha, Jinghu and Jingjiu, etc.. The project of Tinjin Train Station Transportation Hub is the largest comprehensive construction of its kind in terms of scale in China till now. Meanwhile, the Jingjin Intercity Railway, with the promptest operation speed around the world was also in its formal operation, by which you can realize a travel between the two cities of Beijing and Tianjin within half hour. For highway, Tianjin has an expressway net-work radiating the north, southeast, east and northwest of China. The Jing-Jin Expressway, largest in scale and highest in class of this kind in Tianjin till now, was opened formally on 16 July 2008, with eight lanes in two directions. In the city proper, a network of urban transportation has been established, with 3 ring roads and 14 radiating lines as its skeleton. In addition to the current Subway Line 1 and Jin-Bin Light Rail, Sub-way Line 2, 3 and 9 will be completed and the construction of Subway Line 5 and 6 will be started. Till then, an urban public transport system will provide convenient transportation to the citizens. |
