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Drivers on the Yongle Bridge can wave to the people riding on the Tianjin Eye above. Locals practice Tai Chi by the river to relax and keep fit.

Electric vehicles are used to transport packages, which also helps reduce pollution.

Worshippers have prayed at the Tianhou Temple for more than 600 years.

Where along the river can you buy a balloon?

A shoeshiner plies his trade along the riverside.

A Modern Metropolis

Tianjin, 2020 ce

Its skyline bristling with skyscrapers and giant apartment

buildings, modern Tianjin is booming. Cars and bikes

stream along the busy roads, and pedestrians crowd the

riverside promenade. At the meeting point of two

branches of the Grand Canal with the Hai River, Tianjin

has been an important port for centuries and was the first

city in China to open up to Western traders. Now visitors

come from across the world to enjoy the good life in this

ever-growing city.

Museum

Tianjin Eye

Yongle Bridge

Ziya River

Boat

dock

Apartment buildings

Hotel

Bicycle

dock

Tianhou

Temple

North Canal

Jinzhong Bridge

Patrol

boat

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