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   Tianjin Radio and Television Tower

   A 415-metre tower in Tianjin, the eighth tallest free-standing tower in the world, used mainly for communications. It stands in an artificial lake and has an observation deck and revolving restaurant.

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   St. Joseph Cathedral

   A Catholic church of 1917 in the former French concession, also called the Xikai church, with three green domes over a brick body. It is the cathedral of the Tianjin diocese and stands at the south end of Binjiang Road.

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   Wang Hai Lou Catholic Church

   A Catholic church built in 1869 on the Hai River on the site of an imperial temple, whose construction and the rumours around a French orphanage beside it led to the Tianjin massacre of 1870 — a diplomatic crisis with France. It was burned twice and rebuilt.

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   Temple of Great Compassion

   A Chan Buddhist temple in the Hebei district, founded under the Ming and rebuilt in 1669. The skull relic of the pilgrim Xuanzang was enshrined here from 1956, and it remains the largest working Buddhist temple in Tianjin.

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   Tianjin Eye

   A 120-metre observation wheel built in 2008 on top of the Yongle Bridge over the Hai River, one of very few Ferris wheels mounted on a working road bridge. Forty-eight capsules take about half an hour to go round.

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   Tianjin Museum

   The largest museum in Tianjin, in a 2012 building shaped like a swan spreading its wings beside a lake. Its bronzes, jades and Chinese painting are the core, along with material on the treaty-port concessions.

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   Tianjin Natural History Museum

   A natural history museum on Youyi Road in Hexi district, descended from the museum the French Jesuit Émile Licent founded in 1914, which makes it the oldest natural history collection in China. Licent's Palaeolithic and fossil material from the Yellow and Hai river basins remains its foundation.

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   Tianjin Zoo

   A zoo in Nankai district at the southern end of the Water Park complex, covering 53.77 hectares of which about 10.68 hectares is lake. Giant pandas and Siberian tigers are its best-known animals.

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   Guwenhua Jie

   A pedestrian street on the west bank of the Hai River, rebuilt in 1986 in Qing style with temple gates and stalls. It sells the city's crafts — kites, clay figurines and woodblock prints — and holds the Tianhou temple of 1326.

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    Memorial to Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao

    A three-storey museum in Nankai devoted to premier Zhou Enlai and his wife Deng Yingchao, who both studied in Tianjin. White jade statues of the pair sit in the entrance hall, and more than 140 of their belongings are shown among photographs and documents.

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   Memorial Hall of the Boxer Uprising

   The only museum in China devoted to the Boxer Uprising, in Tianjin, where the movement's forces fought the eight-nation expedition in 1900 before the city fell. It stands on the line of the old city wall, which the occupying powers demolished afterwards.

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   Tianjin Water Park

   The largest park in Tianjin, laid out from 1951 in the south of the city, of three lakes and nine islands on former marshland. The zoo and a Japanese garden are inside it.

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   Episcopal Church of Tianjin

   A small red brick Anglican church of 1936 in the former British concession, built for the foreign residents of the treaty port. It is one of the few concession-era churches in Tianjin still standing.

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   The Hoangho-Paiho Museum of Natural History

   A natural history museum founded in Tianjin in 1914 by the French Jesuit Émile Licent, who spent twenty years collecting fossils and specimens across northern China. His two hundred thousand items became the basis of the present Tianjin Natural History Museum.

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   Tianjin Science and Technology Museum

   The city's science museum, opened in 1995 in Hexi district with halls on mechanics, space and the human body, most of the exhibits made to be handled. A domed theatre shows science films under the roof.

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