Beachside Beidaihe: Alluring for more than a century
By Xu Xiao in Qinhuangdao, Hebei province | China Daily | Updated: 2012-07-02 07:49
European-style villas were built as Westerners began to arrive in the 1890s. Provided to China Daily |
Today a favorite vacation destination for Chinese officials and citizens alike, beachside Beidaihe was a small fishing village when English railway engineers provided a getaway in the 1890s from sweltering summertime Tianjin.
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