Friendship cities/Sister cities

Tianjin is among the premier group of cities that started international sister cities exchanges. It has established friendly relationship with 87 local governments from 48 countries across the world. Now, it has 27 sister cities in 20 countries, while it maintains friendly exchanges and cooperation relationship with 31 cities in 22 countries and has reached memorandum of understanding (MoU) with 29 cities in 24 countries.

In September 2017, 8 delegates from Quebec, Canada, led by the province's energy and natural resources minister, visited Tianjin. The visit helped the two sides to enhance their exchanges and cooperation in a pragmatic way. At present, Quebec is one of the Canadian provinces that closely associate with Tianjin, and the latter attaches great importance to developing its relation with Quebec and is actively promoting a friendly relationship. Quebec and Tianjin have in-depth cooperation in a variety of sectors, ranging from business and trade, culture to education, and all reached positive results. In November 2017, a delegation of 22 people from Akita prefecture, Japan, visited Tianjin and shared their views on friendly exchanges and cooperation, and reached a MoU on tourism with Tianjin. In the same month, Tianjin welcomed a delegation from its first sister state in the United States, Oregon state. The two sides signed a MoU that aims to promote inter-city pragmatic cooperation. Moreover, the delegates attended the opening ceremony of Oregon pavilion in an expo of Tianjin's sister cities' products.

Language

Putonghua or Mandarin is the official language in Tianjin.

Religion

Tianjin is an open city where various religions coexist. At the moment, there are about 430,000 religious followers of Catholicism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Taoism, of which 260 are clergies.

Major places to practice religions: