All things old China - books, anecdotes, stories, podcasts, factoids & ramblings from the author Paul French

China’s Great Eastern and Great Northern Ports, 1922

Posted: January 16th, 2022 | No Comments »

See below Sun Yat-sen’s 1922 map detailing his port development plans for China. Sun’s infrastructure obsessions were always fascinating, especially his plans for China’s rail network.

What is perhaps interesting here is that Sun has to deal with the issue of the treaty ports of Shanghai and Tientsin (Tianjin) being major ports. He neatly circumvents this by making them both First Class Ports and dubbing them Great Eastern Port and Great Northern Port respectively. I wonder if Shanghai as the GEP would ever have caught on?



Leave a Reply