Tianjin Binhai New Area: Rising manufacturing center and tourism destination
- By Wu Meiling & Li Zhuoxi
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Scattered Wetlands
Binhai New Area is rich in wetlands. They include Beidagang, Guanganghu, Linkonggang, Nanwang, etc., all making the area a sanctuary for rare animals and plants, especially birds.
Beidagang Wetland, Tianjin’s largest wetland nature reserve, has abundant biodiversity and an entire ecosystem. International experts have given it an almost perfect wetland evaluation. According to international conventions, a wetland is designated as of international importance if it satisfies one of the following conditions: that it is home to more than 10,000 wild geese and ducks, or more than 20,000 other aquatic birds, or if endangered bird species account for more than 1 percent of those on it. Blessed with all three conditions, a wetland of Beidagang’s standing as regards nature, primitiveness, distinctiveness, and irreplaceability, is seldom seen on China’s east coast or even the Western Pacific Rim.
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On entering the wetland you are greeted with abundant flowering marsh plants, like calamus, Iris tectorum, day lily, water lily, and Scirpus tabernaemontani, among which swim, waddle, and stalk swans, oriental white storks, egrets, and black-headed gulls. A high vantage point of Beidagang gives a panoramic view of vivid wetland hues, and of diverse plants and animals.
It is hard to believe that such a well-preserved wetland could exist amid an area so dense in high-end and high-tech industries.
Dongjiang Bay Beach
Tianjin’s Dongjiang Bay Beach, its sole sandy shore, is ideal for a day on the seaside. There are houses there with an ocean view, a road lined with seafood snack stalls, and a cultural street.
Here you can breathe fresh sea air, and sip a beer while enjoying fresh seafood – either in a high-end restaurant or log cabin on the seafood street, whichever most appeals. After dining you might like to try your hand at the various marine sports available in Dongjiang, such as speed boating, sailing, paragliding, or sand beach motor biking. Dongjiang Bay Beach offers blue skies, toothsome food, and seaside fun in general.
