Tangshan, Hebei Province, China

Economy | Industrial zone | Universities and colleges | Tourist Industry | Transport | Air | Rail | Roads

🇨🇳 Tangshan (唐山) is a coastal, industrial prefecture-level city in the north-east of Hebei province. It is located in the eastern part of Hebei Province and the north-eastern part of the North China Plain. It is located in the central area of the Bohai Rim and serves as the main traffic corridor to the Northeast. The city faces the Bohai Sea in the south, the Yan Mountains in the north, Qinhuangdao across the Luan River to the east, and Tianjin to the west.

Much of the city's development is thanks to the industrialisation, beginning in 1870, when Kailuan Group established coal mines in the region. It's the birthplace of China's first standard-gauge railway, the first railway plant, the first steam locomotive, and the first cement factory. It was hailed as China's "cradle of industrialisation". Even today, Tangshan is a hub of steel, energy, chemical, and ceramics production. Ping opera, which originated from the city's Luanzhou county, is one of the five most popular Chinese operas.

The city has also become known for the 1976 Tangshan earthquake which measured 7.8 on the Richter scale, flattened much of the city, and killed at least 255,000 residents according to official estimates. The city has since been rebuilt, has become a tourist attraction, and is among the 10 largest ports in China.

The city of Tangshan is approximately 149 km (93 mi) east by south east of Beijing. It takes roughly 2 hours by road to get from Tangshan to Beijing and 1 hour by road to reach Tianjin. Tangshan's built-up (or metro) area is made of the 7 urban core districts.

In 2022, the Tangshan restaurant attack attracted the attention and discussion of the international community.

The prefecture-level city of Tangshan administers 14 county-level divisions including 7 districts, 4 counties and 3 county-level cities.

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Economy Tangshan is an important heavy industrial city in North China. Its output include machinery, motor vehicles, chemicals, textiles, glass, petroleum products, and cement. It has been a coal-mining centre since late Qing Dynasty, as Guangdong merchant Tong King-sing opened the first coal mine using modern techniques in Kaiping in 1877. Since the construction of the Caofeidian Project, it has hosted large iron and steel plants, chemical projects, and electricity plants. It is China's largest steel-producing city. Tangshan is also called the "porcelain capital of North China".

Modern industry in China first arose in Tangshan. The second railway in China – after the abortive Woosung Railway in Shanghai – was the six-mile track laid between Hsukochuang and Tangshan which opened in 1881; this eventually grew into the Imperial Railroad of North China and China's modern Jingshan and Jingha Railways. The first fire-resistant material manufactory and the first and largest cement manufactory were constructed in Tangshan as well.

Tangshan has experienced near-constant GDP growth in recent years, but has slowed down in the latter-half of the 2010s. In 2008, the GDP of Tangshan was ¥353.747 billion, which nearly doubled to ¥612.121 billion by 2013, and grew further to ¥695.500 billion in 2018. Tangshan's GDP was ranked the 26th largest among Chinese cities according to data from 2017. The city's exports were valued at $7.109 billion in 2016. Government figures for 2017 show that the city's economy was largely dominated by the secondary industry, contributing ¥408.14 billion to the city's economy.

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Industrial zone • Caofeidian New Zone.

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Universities and colleges • North China University of Science and Technology (formerly named Hebei United University), which was co-established by Hebei Polytechnic University and North China Coal Medical College in May 2010 • Tangshan Normal University • Tangshan College • Hebei University of Science and Technology Tangshan Branch.

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Tourist Industry • Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty • Anti-Seismic Monument, located in Anti-Seismic Square • Tangshan Nanhu Park (Lunan District) • Kailuan National Mine Park (Lunan District) • Tangshan science and Technology Museum (Lubei District).

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Transport As of 2017, Tangshan has 18,000 km of roads, of which, 16,000 were in rural areas. The city's roads served 410 million tons of freight, and the city's port served 570 million tons.

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Air • Tangshan Sannühe Airport, 20 km (12 mi) from the city centre, in Fengrun District

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Rail • Beijing–Harbin Railway • Tianjin–Shanhaiguan Railway • Beijing-Qinhuangdao Railway • Tianjin-Shanxi Railway

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Roads • China National Highway 102, in the south of Fengrun District • China National Highway 112, ring road encircling Beijing, traversing the west side of Tangshan's urban area • China National Highway 205, which runs along the eastern and southern front of the urban area • G1 Beijing–Harbin Expressway, on the northern side of the urban area • G25 Changchun–Shenzhen Expressway, on the western side of the urban area.

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Image: Photo by Max van den Oetelaar on Unsplash

Tangshan was ranked #956 by the Nomad List which evaluates and ranks remote work hubs by cost, internet, fun and safety. Tangshan has a population of over 3,687,607 people. Tangshan also forms the centre of the wider Tangshan prefecture which has a population of over 7,717,983 people.

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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Tangshan has links with:

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East of: 118.19

🇨🇳 Dehua 118.241

🇨🇳 Lijin 118.256

🇨🇳 Suqian 118.275

🇨🇳 Yongchun 118.289

🇨🇳 Linyi 118.318

🇹🇼 Kinmen 118.33

🇨🇳 Chuzhou 118.333

🇨🇳 Ma'anshan 118.35

🇨🇳 Wuhu 118.364

🇨🇳 Nanancun 118.385

West of: 118.19

🇨🇳 Nanping 118.177

🇲🇾 Sandakan 118.113

🇨🇳 Xiamen 118.093

🇮🇩 Sumbawa 118.083

🇨🇳 Siming District 118.083

🇨🇳 Zibo 118.045

🇨🇳 Wuyishan 118.035

🇷🇺 Krasnokamensk 118.033

🇨🇳 Binzhou 117.971

🇨🇳 Shangrao 117.969

Antipodal to Tangshan is: -61.81,-39.618

Locations Near: Tangshan 118.19,39.6179

🇨🇳 Changli 119.167,39.717 d: 84.3  

🇨🇳 Tianjin 117.177,39.142 d: 101.9  

🇨🇳 Qinhuangdao 119.52,39.888 d: 117.6  

🇨🇳 Chengde 117.936,40.967 d: 151.5  

🇨🇳 Haigang 119.6,39.933 d: 125.5  

🇨🇳 Guangyang 116.7,39.533 d: 128  

🇨🇳 Langfang 116.684,39.538 d: 129.4  

🇨🇳 Tongzhou 116.644,39.9 d: 135.8  

🇨🇳 Shunyi 116.661,40.15 d: 143.2  

🇨🇳 Huairou 116.632,40.316 d: 153.8  

Antipodal to: Tangshan -61.81,-39.618

🇦🇷 Bahía Blanca -62.266,-38.718 d: 19907.6  

🇦🇷 Viedma -62.995,-40.808 d: 19848.8  

🇦🇷 Olavarría -60.333,-36.9 d: 19686.5  

🇦🇷 Tandil -59.133,-37.317 d: 19669  

🇦🇷 Santa Rosa -64.283,-36.617 d: 19617.4  

🇦🇷 Puerto Madryn -65.037,-42.773 d: 19572.5  

🇦🇷 Mar del Plata -57.55,-38 d: 19604.5  

🇦🇷 Chivilcoy -60.017,-34.9 d: 19467  

🇦🇷 Parera -64.502,-35.147 d: 19464  

🇦🇷 San Vicente -58.417,-35.017 d: 19422.1  

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