(1997 est. pop. 5.15 million). Located near the mouth of the Hai River 137 kilometers southeast of Beijing, Tianjin (Tientsin) is one of three centrally administered cities in the People's Republic of China. In 1997, the metropolitan population...

Tianjin (help·info) (Chinese: 天津; pinyin: Tiānjīn; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is one of the four municipalities of China that are directly under the central government and have provincial-level status. Its urban area is the third largest...

The port city's development has become a national priority Tianjin-one of the four province-level municipalities in China along with Beijing, Chongqing, and Shanghai-is the site of one of the world's largest ports and one of China's leading economic zones. The Port of Tianjin...

The development of petrochemical industry in Tianjin has a history of more than 20 years. With construction of oil-refining and petrochemical units as well as a 140 000 t/a ethylene plant, Tianjin is on the way to becoming one of the petrochemical bases...

A senior official in north China's Tianjin city died in an apparent suicide amid a probe into alleged bribe-taking and shady real estate deals by at least three high-level officials in the booming port city, Hong Kong media reported Friday.Song Pingshun, head of Tianjin's advisory...

Protesters staged a rare public demonstration in China's capital Thursday over what they said were illegal property seizures and compensation packages that fell far short of that needed to buy new homes.The protest underscored how galloping urban redevelopment is leaving many Chinese behind and worsening...