Tianjin

Chinese Tien·tsin

[tyahn-jin]

noun

Pinyin.

1. a port in eastern Hebei province, in northeastern China.

Tianjin

/ ˈtjɛnˈdʒɪn /

noun

1. an industrial city in NE China, capital of Tianjin municipality (traditionally in Hebei province), on the Grand Canal, 51 km (32 miles) from the Yellow Sea: the third largest city in China; seat of Nankai University (1919). Pop: 9 346 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

A former Magnequench engineer, Mitchell Spencer, said he agreed to set up a plant in the Chinese city of Tianjin, which was intended to be a sister facility to his home factory in Indiana.

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Others are uncertain about whether the Tianjin summit represented a fundamental realignment in the global order.

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The SCO summit in Tianjin has allowed him to project power and offer a vision of a new world order which he hopes will challenge the United States.

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Speaking at the summit in Tianjin, Putin thanked the Chinese and Indian leaders for their support and their efforts to "facilitate the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis".

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And, if their official readouts are anything to go by, Modi's attendance at the Tianjin Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation seems to have paid off.

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