Binhai

Like Shanghai, Tianjin is the only other municipality to have been afforded preferential treatment and favourable funding policies, indicative of Beijing’s support to see the municipality develop its financial services sector. The Binhai District of Tianjin, for example, was the first to be granted dispensation by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange to engage in direct investment in overseas securities.

2011, Darryl S.L. Jarvis, “International Financial Centres in Asia: Contest, Competition and Possible Trajectories”, in Darryl S.L. Jarvis, Anthony Welch, editors, ASEAN Industries and the Challenge from China, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 165

TIANJIN, a northern mega-city, has produced some of China's wittiest comedians.[...]The problem is that the city’s planners sot far ahead of themselves. They built a big new financial district, which they billed as China’s Manhattan, in the Binhai district, on the city’s far-east side.

2018 August 4, “Where are the people?”, in The Economist, volume 428, number 9103, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44

Anyone new to the green-clad Binhai New Area in Tianjin would find it hard to believe that it was not always an ideal place to live. Located in North China’s major coastal city, Binhai has a land area of 2,270 square kilometers, but over half of it used to be covered in high-saline soil, which is unsuitable for growing plants.

2020 November 3, “Tianjin’s Binhai New Area models saline soil reclamation to world”, in AP News, PR Newswire, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2022