Lianyungang Port

Lianyungang Port

Guide

Lianyungang Port: Standing by the sea is a 37-meter-tall bell tower with a square base and a round top. The upper part has four walls inlaid with four large clocks that chime beautiful music and clear bell tones day and night to tell the time. This is the bell tower of Lianyungang Railway Station, built in 1933, and it marks the eastern terminus of the Longhai Railway.

To the north, Lianyungang Port is naturally shielded by Liandao Island, which stretches 6 kilometers long, while to the south it is backed by Yuntai Mountain. With a strait two kilometers wide and superior natural conditions such as climate, it is an all-year-round ice-free good harbor and one of China's eight major seaports.

Lianyungang, anciently known as "Laojiao," was once a frontier where ancient criminals were exiled. By the beginning of the 20th century, it was still a vast kingdom of nature. In 1908, Shen Yunpei, Minister of Posts and Communications in the late Guangxu era and Vice Minister of Personnel in the second year of Xuantong, from Haizhou, proposed the construction of the Longhai Railway. In 1925, the railway reached Lianyungang. After the Xinhai Revolution, Dr. Sun Yat-sen envisioned in his "Program for National Reconstruction" to develop Lianyungang into a Class II port capable of accommodating large ships. Due to warfare, this plan was not realized. Today, Lianyungang has 27 berths with an annual handling capacity of nearly 30 million tons; it maintains shipping links with nearly a thousand ports in 154 countries and regions around the world, and has successively opened nearly 50 regular container liner routes to places such as Hong Kong, Japan, and Southeast Asia.

Address: Southwest Coast of Yunhaizhou Bay, Lianyun District, Lianyungang City

Type: Port / Harbor

Recommended visiting time: 1–2 hours

Opening hours:

Open all day

Ticket information:

Free admission.