Our history

Tangshan is named after the Tang Mountain (now the Dacheng Mountain in the downtown area). In the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC-1046 BC), it belonged to the Guzhu Kingdom and Shanrong tribe; during the Warring States Period (475 BC-221 BC), it was in Yan State; it belonged to Youzhou in the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), and to Pingzhou and Jizhou in the Tang Dynasty (618-907). During the Liao Dynasty (907-1125) and Jin Dynasty (1115-1234), it belonged to Nanjing Lu (a kind of administrative distribution), Zhongdu Lu, and Beijing Lu, and in the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368), to Zhongshu Province, Dadu Lu, and Yongping Lu. In the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1616-1911), it belonged to Shuntian Prefecture, Yongping Prefecture, and Zunhua Prefecture. Qiaotun Town was established in 1877, the third year of the reign of Guangxu Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and was later renamed as Tangshan Town. On July 24, 1878, the Kaiping Mineral Board was established and went into operation, marking the start of Tangshan as a commercial port. In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), the districts were established and administered by modelling after the Qing system. On January 28, 1939, considering the special economic and political status of Tangshan, the Pseudo Eastern Hebei Anti-Communist Autonomous Government decreed that Tangshan was set up as a city, which was initially called “Tangshan Municipal Government,” and later renamed as “Tangshan Municipal Office.” After Japan declared its surrender, the Kuomintang government sent officers to take over the puppet regime and set up the office of inspection there. In April 1946, the 132nd meeting of Hebei Provincial Committee of the CPC passed the proposal to establish Tangshan as a city. On May 5 of the same year, Tangshan Municipal Government was established. On October 1, 1949, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Tangshan was still a city with 12 districts, and was directly under the jurisdiction of the provincial government. By the end of 2018, Tangshan had jurisdiction over three county-level cities (Qian'an, Zunhua and Luanzhou), four counties (Qianxi, Yutian, Luannan and Laoting), and seven districts (Caofeidian, Lunan, Lubei, Kaiping, Guye, Fengrun and Fengnan), four development zones (Harbour Economic Development Zone, High and New Tech Development Zone, Lutai Economic and Technological Development Zone, and Hangu Management Zone).(https://www.daowen.com)