Tianjin
Tianjin
On my first visit to China I spent most of the time in Tianjin. It’s located around 130 kilometres south of Beijing. The fastest way to reach it from Beijing is by fast train (travelling at 330km/h you need half an hour to travel from one city to the other). Tianjin is the 6th largest city in China in terms of urban population with around 11 million habitants. In the beginning of the 20th century there were 9 foreign concessions in Tianjin, they all had their own prisons, schools, hospitals and so on and they left a lot of buildings in the style of their home countries. (Especially churches and villas) Most of these buildings are under protection and you can still see them in the city.
Here are some of the pictures I made in Tianjin :
