Lutai () is a town in and the seat of
Ninghe District, in the northeast of
Tianjin
Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popu ...
, People's Republic of China. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was the terminus for the
Lutai Canal Often described as China's first railway, the first railway to be built and survive in China was the Kaiping (開平) colliery tramway located at Tangshan, Tongshan in Hebei province. However, this was not the first railway in China. An earlier att ...
and the first extension of the
Kaiping Tramway Often described as China's first railway, the first railway to be built and survive in China was the Kaiping (開平) colliery tramway located at Tongshan in Hebei province. However, this was not the first railway in China. An earlier attempt to i ...
. By road, it is from
Tianjin Binhai International Airport
Tianjin Binhai International Airport , originally Tianjin Zhangguizhuang Airport is an airport located in Dongli District, Tianjin. It is one of the major air cargo centers in the People's Republic of China.
It is the hub airport for Tianjin ...
, from downtown Tianjin, and from downtown
Beijing
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Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...
. , it had 28 residential communities () and 37 villages under its administration.
See also
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List of township-level divisions of Tianjin
This is a list of township-level divisions of the municipality of Tianjin, People's Republic of China (PRC). After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative div ...
References
Towns in Tianjin
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