A Date With China at Huo Yanjia Civil and Military School Tianjin 2021. [Photo by Bruce Connolly/chinadaily.com.cn]
This is a city where one visit means many. A city with long, fond memories of watching its transformation over the years from my first visit in 1996. Then, like much of northern China, it was in early stages of development from a more traditional, industrial and port base into the centre of contemporary and indeed futuristic modernity.