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| | Tianjin. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | The third largest city in China, Tianjin is a port at the confluence of the Hai River (c.30 mi/50 km from its mouth) with the Grand Canal. |
 | | Although the harbor is poor, Tianjin is a leading international port of China and the collection and distribution center for the N China plain. |
 | | Tianjin is an important manufacturing center, with iron- and steelworks, textile mills (cotton, woolen, and hemp), machine shops, a chemical industry based on salt, flour mills and other food-processing establishments, paper mills, and plants making heavy machinery, automobiles, precision instruments, cement, fertilizer, rubber products, carpets, lubricants, computers and computer components, and telecommunications equipment. |
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