Former Huanghai Society for Chemical Industry Research 黄海化学工业研究社旧址Huánghǎi Huàxué Gōngyè Yánjiūshè Jiùzhǐ

About Former Huanghai Society for Chemical Industry Research

A two-storey grey brick-and-concrete villa on a site of about 440 square metres, built in 1922 for the Huanghai Society for Chemical Industry Research, China's first privately funded chemical research institute, which the industrialist Fan Xudong set up on the laboratory of the Jiuda refined-salt company. The society worked on salt brines, potash and iodine, and in 1935 made the first sample of metallic aluminium produced in China. The building is a national heritage site and a Tianjin historic building under special protection.

How to get to Former Huanghai Society for Chemical Industry Research

At 338 Jiefang Road in Tanggu, Binhai New Area, about 2 km west of the Binhai New Area government; the building can be seen from the street, but check before going whether it can be entered.

Nearby

• Five Great Avenues 五大道 40 km
  Leafy lanes of century-old villas from Tianjin's treaty-port days

Also within 20 km: Tianjin Polar Ocean Park (Haichang Polar Ocean World) 天津极地海洋公园 (under 10 km), Former Tanggu Railway Station (Tanggu South) 塘沽南站 (under 10 km), Dagu Dockyard Site (Beiyang Fleet Dockyard) 北洋水师大沽船坞遗址 (under 10 km), Taku Forts (Dagukou Forts) 大沽口炮台 (under 10 km), Tianjin Port Culture and Tourism Area 天津港文化旅游区 (10 km), National Maritime Museum of China 国家海洋博物馆 (10 km).

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