Tanggu is the nearest seaside urban area to Beijing. It faces Bohai Sea in the east, adjoins Jing-jin-tang Expressway in the north and borders Three North. Tanggu is the junction of Jingjin and Ring-Bohai city belts as well as the seat of TEDA, Tianjin Free Trade Zone, Tianjin Port and High-tech Marine Industry Park. Tanggu covers an area of 859 km2 with the population of 0.56 million. It is 45 km far away from the center of Tianjin city, 160 km from Beijing and 30 km from Tianjin Binhai International Airport. Six state-level roads and Jing-Ha railway run through Tanggu, which therefore forms swift and convenient solid traffic networks of sea, land and air. The geographical position of Tanggu enjoys exceptional advantages and it was endowed with the title of "Offshore Door".
Now, Tanggu, which covers an area of 859 km2 with the population of 0.56 million, is strongly attracting people of different races from different regions all over the world. The people of Tanggu will accelerate the development of marine and Haihe river economies together with friends from other countries and endeavor to construct this seaside new city to be a highly-open modern example area of port city earlier.
The whole Tanggu unitizes marine scenery and seaside customs together. It possesses the five factors as "sun, seawater, beach, greenness and air" which are pursued by modern international travel as well as the natural resources as "river, port, garden, hot spring and customs", etc. The shoal area of Tanggu by sea and rivers is wide and flat. Tanggu has the coastline of 92.16 km and is wealthy with about one hundred types of marine products.
Tanggu is the city which enjoys profound culture accumulation. It possesses Dagu Barbette Ruins Garden which is state-national historical relics protection unit and one of Top Ten Sceneries in Tianjin as well as Chaoyin Temple which is an ancient monastery of Haimen. Especially, as "Offshore Door" of Beijing and Tianjin, Tanggu has close relations with the boom-slump process and struggle deeds of Chinese nation in modern civilization and modern history, and detailed records have been kept. Opium War, Westernization Movement, 1894 Sino-Japanese War, Geng-zi Battles, Zhi-Feng War, Anti-Japanese War and National Liberation War all left memorable records in Tanggu and created historical figures as Chen Hongyi, Gao Gengen, Li Yuanhong, Dan Xu Rabbi and Li Senmao, etc. Meanwhile, it formed special customs, religions and cultures. Therefore, Tanggu is a good place for modern youth to review history and receive patriotism education.
Tanggu has rich geothermal resources with reserves of 43.49 billion tons and outlet water temperature of 65-78°C. The combination of seawater and hot springs is quite rare in big coastal city. There are great advantages on project development of medical care, healthcare hot-springs, entertainment and tourism with seaside features.
Constructing Tanggu to be highly-open modern example area of port city is the objective pursued by the people of Tanggu for development. According to the standard of the example area, Tanggu District regards the well construction and management of the city as the significant actions for improving investment environment and enhancing service functions. In recent years, the funds on infrastructure construction of the city are accumulated to 5 billion, and the urban appearance and living environment of residents were greatly improved.
1. Road and bridge construction: Tanggu newly built over ten urban overpasses and reconstructed 85 main roads. Those overpasses and roads together with the ready-to-be finished three loop lines of inner, middle and outer form modern traffic networks leading everywhere. The third biggest single pylon cable-stayed bridge—Tanggu Haihe River Bridge and the largest urban interchange overpass in China—Binhai Overpass not only have important traffic position, but also become the scenery of the district.
 2. Water, Electricity, Gas and Heating: the auxiliary facilities of infrastructure in Tanggu is perfect and it has water-supply capacity of 0.4 million ton/day to basically provide domestic water and industrial water; the newly-built natural gas pipelines and "BoXi" Natural Gas Auxiliary Engineering can supply gas of 17.21 million m3, and the gasification efficiency of resident dwellings reaches to be 94%; since 1997 central heating was established, thermalization rate of heat supply reaches to be above 75%; Tanggu possesses 5 substations with above 110 kv and is one of the districts with the most abundant electric power supply in China.
 3. Information Networks: the advancement and popularity degrees of communication facilities in Tanggu have reached the national leading level. In the whole district, total capability of SPC Exchange is 230 thousand and the coverage rate of Broadband Integrative Information Network is 100%. The coverage rate of household fixed telephones reaches to be 98% and each 100 people own 65 mobile phones. In the whole district, there are over 80 organizations of information consulting services with about one thousand working staff. Information industry has been applied in each field of the District and becomes the power to propel economic development.
4. City Greening: ten blocks of high-grade greening squares was built in central area of Tanggu and public green land per capita of the district reaches to 14 m2. Binhai Century Square is located in the central area of Tanggu with an area of 24,000 m2, including the top four landscapes as Carved Century Column with Embossment, Century Wall, Copper-casting Embossment and Fountain Waterscape. The grandness and magnificence are acclaimed as the peak of perfection. Civilized residential areas and example roads go through the whole district and the living space per capita reaches to 25 m2. A set of modern residential quarters as Binhai Long Du and Rhine Spring, etc. become a beautiful scenery line.??????
5. Economical Services: Economic Service Center of Tanggu District Government combines the approval to issue various licenses and service together. It provides "one department and all-around services" for enterprises and society. The Center reached domestic first-class level in aspects of facilities, environment and service forms.
6. Social Services: Tanggu established City Management People-oriented Service Center as "961001", Community Service Center as "9999", Legislative Service Hotline as "148", Medical Care Service Hotline as "120" and Industry & Commerce Service Hotline as "12315". Those six service networks cover the whole district. They can promptly solve difficulties of residents in living and open "green passage" for residents to participate in city management.