A report on Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin and Langfang

The Tianning Pagoda, built around 1120 during the Liao dynasty.
1913 map of Tianjin
Aerial view of downtown Langfang (below) and Beijing Daxing International Airport in July 2019
Nearly 1100-year-old Iron Lion of Cangzhou
One of the corner towers of the Forbidden City, built by the Yongle Emperor during the early Ming dynasty
Church of Our Lady's Victories, built in 1869, was the site of the Tianjin Church Massacre.
Langfang Railway Station
Tricolor Duck-Shaped Cup, Tang Dynasty, unearthed from Anxin County
Overlapping layout of Beijing during the Liao, Jin, Yuan and Ming dynasties
Peiyang University, established 1895
The Putuo Zongcheng Temple of Chengde, Hebei, built in 1771 during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor.
Summer Palace is one of the several palatial gardens built by Qing emperors in the northwest suburb area.
Tung Lai Bank building on Heping Road, built in 1930
Hebei in 1936
Chongwenmen, a gate to the inner walled city, c. 1906
Major crossing (Rue Général Foch and Rue de Chaylard) of downtown Tientsin in French concession
Langyashan (Wolf Tooth Mountain), in Yi County
A large portrait of Chiang Kai-shek was displayed above Tiananmen after WWII.
Asahi Street (now Heping Road) in 1939 Tianjin flood
Section of the Great Wall of China at Jinshanling
Mao Zedong proclaiming the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949
P.R.China's 10th anniversary parade in Tianjin in 1959
Bashang Meadows in Fengning County
A scene from the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
Tianjin Eye
Downtown Shijiazhuang.
Landsat 7 Satellite image of Beijing Municipality with the surrounding mountains in dark brown
Monument of TEDA
A building in downtown Zhangjiakou.
1940s Nationalist Beijing with predominantly traditional architecture
Population density and low elevation coastal zones in the Tianjin area. Tianjin is particularly vulnerable to sea level rise.
The Lingxiao Pagoda of Zhengding, Hebei Province, built in AD 1045 during the Song dynasty
The sign of Doujiao Hutong, one of the many traditional alleyways in the inner city
Tianjin (labeled as T'IEN-CHIN (TIENTSIN) 天津) (1955)
Hejian-styled donkey burger
Beijing average annual temperatures from 1970 to 2019 during summer (June, July, and August) and winter (December, January, and February). Weather station data from ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/noaa/. For comparison the Global Surface Temperature Anomaly rose by approximately one degree over the same time period.
Map of the Hai River Basin
A Ding ware bowl
Heavy air pollution has resulted in widespread smog. These photographs, taken in August 2005, show the variations in Beijing's air quality.
2011 satellite image of Tianjin. The city center was on the left, while the smaller urban area to the right was the Binhai New Area.
The Xumi Pagoda of Zhengding, Hebei province, built in 636 AD during the Tang dynasty
Houhai Lake and Drum Tower at Shichahai, in the Xicheng District
Hai River in 2011
View of the Chengde Mountain Resort
Xidan is one of the oldest and busiest shopping areas in Beijing.
Airport Industrial Park, Dongli District
Beijing products treemap, 2020
Then-Premier Wen Jiabao, himself a Tianjin native, and Klaus Schwab at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions of World Economic Forum in Tianjin, 2010
The Taikoo Li Sanlitun shopping arcade is a destination for locals and visitors.
Tianjin city center
The skyline of Beijing CBD
Tianjin Economic and Technological Development Area
Zhongguancun is a technology hub in Haidian District
US Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi visiting a Tianjin Qingyuan Electric Vehicle factory in 2009
The Beijing Ancient Observatory
Old Guanyinhao Bank
Qianmen Avenue, a traditional commercial street outside Qianmen Gate along the southern Central Axis
Crosstalk in Tianjin
Inside the Forbidden City
Nankai University
Beijing Acrobatic Performance (10553642935)
Jingwei Tries to Fill the Sea, the dome mural of Tianjin railway station
A Temple of the Goddess in Gubeikou
Tianjin Binhai International Airport Terminal 1 and 2
Fire God Temple in Di'anmen
Port of Tianjin pilot boat berth
The tomb pagodas at Tanzhe Temple
The TEDA Modern Guided Rail Tram is one of the two rubber tire tram systems in Asia
Yonghe Temple of Tibetan Buddhism
The Tianjin Metro near Liuyuan station
Niujie Mosque
Tianjin railway station
Church of the Saviour, also known as the Xishiku Church, built in 1703
Tianjin West railway station
The China Central Television Headquarters building in CBD
Tianjin Bus Route 606
Fireworks above Olympic venues during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics
A Mazu temple in Tianjin
Tai chi (Taijiquan) practitioners at the Fragrant Hills Park
House decorated by more than seven hundred million pieces of ceramic
Beijing Workers' Stadium at night as viewed from Sanlitun
Tianjin Museum
Beijing railway station, one of several rail stations in the city
Tianjin Italian Town
Badaling Expressway overpass near the Great Wall
Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium, Nankai District
Typical Beijing traffic signage found at intersections
Tianjin Juilliard School in Binhai,Tianjin
Traffic jam in the Beijing CBD
Terminal 3 of the Beijing Capital International Airport
Beijing Daxing International Airport
Two Line 1 trains on the Beijing Subway, which is among the longest and busiest rapid transit systems in the world
An articulated Beijing bus
Bicyclists during rush hour at the Chang'an Avenue, 2009
KJ-2000 and J-10s started the flypast formation on the 70th anniversary of the People's Republic of China.

Langfang is a prefecture-level city of Hebei Province, which was known as Tianjin Prefecture until 1973.

- Langfang

Nevertheless, its built-up area, the third largest in China after Guangzhou and Shanghai, is slightly bigger, including three districts in Hebei (Sanhe, Dachang Hui and Zhuozhou) being conurbated but with Miyun and Pinggu Districts in Beijing not agglomerated yet.

- Beijing

Langfang is located approximately midway between Beijing and Tianjin.

- Langfang

Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jingjinji megalopolis and the national capital region of China.

- Beijing

Tianjin borders Hebei Province and Beijing Municipality, bounded to the east by the Bohai Gulf portion of the Yellow Sea.

- Tianjin

In 1421, when the Yongle Emperor moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, the province started to be called as "North Zhili" or just "Zhili", which means "Directly Ruled (by the Imperial Court)".

- Hebei

The capital was also moved from Baoding to the upstart city of Shijiazhuang, and, for a short period, to Tianjin.

- Hebei

On June 26, European defense forces heading towards Beijing were stopped by Boxers at nearby Langfang, and were defeated and forced to turn back to Tianjin.

- Tianjin

Langfang Export Processing Zone

- Hebei

The Beijing Daxing International Airport (IATA: PKX) located 46 km south of the city in Daxing District bordering the city of Langfang, Hebei Province, opened on 25 September 2019.

- Beijing

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