天津国际展览中心（友谊路老国展）

Tianjin International Exhibition Center stands at 32 Youyi Road in Hexi District, in the heart of the city's financial and commercial quarter, next to the Tianjin Grand Auditorium, Tianjin Museum, Galaxy Plaza and Tianjin Cultural Centre; locals call it the 'old national exhibition centre'. Its operating company was established on 24 August 1987, the venue opened on 15 March 1989 and was extended in 2003, making it one of the earliest large professional exhibition venues built and continuously run in Tianjin since reform and opening, and a principal window for the city's external promotion and mid-sized exhibitions. The site covers 55,000 sqm with 46,000 sqm of floor area and about 35,000 sqm of indoor exhibition space in two buildings linked by a second-floor corridor. Hall 1 offers 10,000 sqm over two levels for more than 400 standard booths; Hall 2 provides 25,000 sqm in five halls for over 1,200 booths; ten meeting rooms, negotiation rooms and lecture halls complete the programme. Halls can be separated or combined, giving flexible, self-contained units suited to mid-sized professional and consumer shows. Built in 1989 and extended in 2003, the linked two-hall layout is a physical record of Tianjin's urban exhibition architecture; as newer large venues opened across the city, a multi-venue landscape emerged, and the old centre's strengths remain its central location and its neighbours among the city's cultural institutions. Metro Lines 5 and 6 stop at Cultural Centre and Tianjin Hotel stations, both within walking distance; Youyi Road and Leyuan Road converge here with numerous bus routes, and Tianjin and Tianjin West railway stations are reachable by metro interchange.