Qinhuangdao overview

Qinhuangdao lies 300kms to the east of Beijing, an important and rapidly developing commercial and tourist hub that plays host to hordes of holidaymakers and investors alike. Its prime position at the joint of the northern and north-eastern mainland, Qinhuangdao is China's northern outlet to a fast disappearing seaside community. Now the home of glass and bridge industry, the storied past of the city honours the first Chinese Emperor who searched the seas for the legendary immortals. Infamously pristine Beidaihe is a summer seaside resort for senior government officials, a veritable Chinese Camp David. Qinhuangdao proper sits in the Haigang District of the harbour city, while tourists swarm to Shanhaiguan and the eastern tip of the Great Wall of China. The other tourist mainstay is the iconic Red Ribbon at Tanghe River Park, which was voted one of Conde Naste's seven new architectural wonders of the world.