Tianshili Great Health City Scenic Area is located in Beichen District, Tianjin. It is a distinctive scenic area centered on the big health industry and integrating cultural experience, leisure tourism, science popularization and education, and other functions. At present, the scenic area has been rated as a National 4A Tourist Attraction. With its unique "pharmaceutical health cultural tourism" model, it has become a distinctive health-themed tourism destination in Tianjin and even across China. The overall planned area of the scenic area is about 1,300 mu, and the architectural style in the area combines traditional Chinese and modern minimalist elements. The total building area of various exhibition halls, landscape buildings, and other structures exceeds 200,000 square meters. It not only displays the profound heritage of traditional Chinese medicine culture, but also allows tourists to gain an in-depth understanding of the development and achievements of the big health industry through modern facilities and interactive experience projects, forming a distinctive scenic area that integrates sightseeing, learning, experience, and leisure.
Historical Culture
The historical and cultural foundation of Tianshili Great Health City is closely connected with the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese medicine. As the creator of the scenic area, Tianshili Group has been committed to the modernization and internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine since its establishment in 1994, and the scenic area is a concentrated display window for this philosophy of the group. The historical and cultural context within the scenic area revolves around the origin and development of traditional Chinese medicine and the development history of Tianshili itself. Through rich exhibits and materials, it systematically presents the evolution of traditional Chinese medicine from ancient classic prescriptions to modern innovative medicines.
Among them, special attention is paid to inheriting and promoting the concept of "preventive treatment of disease" in traditional Chinese medicine culture. This concept originates from the Huangdi Neijing and emphasizes the importance of disease prevention. Through various forms, the scenic area combines this ancient wisdom with modern healthy lifestyles, allowing tourists to experience the breadth and depth of traditional Chinese medicine culture and its contemporary value during their visit. In addition, the scenic area also displays important events and achievements of Tianshili in promoting the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine, such as Compound Danshen Dripping Pills passing U.S. FDA clinical trials, reflecting the integrated development of traditional Chinese medicine and modern technology and forming the scenic area's unique historical and cultural connotations.
Main Attractions
Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum
The Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum is one of the core attractions of Tianshili Great Health City, with a building area of about 8,000 square meters. The museum houses more than 3,000 pieces of traditional Chinese medicine cultural relics, ancient books and documents, and other items from the Neolithic Age to modern times, systematically displaying the origin, development process, classic prescriptions, diagnostic and treatment instruments, and other content of traditional Chinese medicine. The museum has multiple themed exhibition areas, including the Traditional Chinese Medicine History Corridor, Chinese Medicine Specimen Area, and Famous Physicians and Allusions Area. Through physical displays, scene restoration, multimedia interaction, and other methods, tourists can fully understand the profound heritage of traditional Chinese medicine culture. Among them, the Chinese Medicine Specimen Area displays specimens of more than 1,000 common Chinese medicinal materials, including plant medicines, animal medicines, mineral medicines, and others. Some rare specimens have extremely high scientific research and ornamental value.
Big Health Experience Hall
The Big Health Experience Hall covers an area of about 5,000 square meters and is a modern exhibition hall integrating health testing, health consultation, and interactive experience. The hall is equipped with internationally advanced health testing equipment. Tourists can undergo multiple health examinations, including constitution testing and sub-health assessment, and receive professional health guidance and suggestions. In addition, the experience hall has multiple interactive experience areas, such as a simulated pharmacy, a healthy diet matching experience area, and a traditional health preservation exercises teaching area. Tourists can personally participate in activities such as traditional Chinese medicine processing and medicinal meal preparation, and gain an in-depth understanding of knowledge and skills for healthy living. The experience hall aims to spread the concept of healthy living and improve public health literacy through edutainment.
Health Culture Garden
The Health Culture Garden covers an area of about 100 mu and is a garden-style scenic area themed around traditional health preservation culture. More than 100 kinds of medicinal plants with health-preserving and healthcare effects, such as ginkgo, eucommia, and goji berry, are planted in the garden, forming a unique medicinal botanical garden landscape. The garden also contains multiple landscape buildings reflecting health preservation culture, such as health preservation pavilions, Tai Chi Square, and Medicinal Food Workshop. Tourists can stroll and rest in the garden, enjoy the landscape of medicinal plants, and learn health preservation knowledge. At Tai Chi Square, professionals regularly demonstrate and teach traditional health preservation exercises such as Tai Chi and Baduanjin every day. Tourists can participate and learn, experiencing the charm of traditional health preservation culture.
Modern Chinese Medicine Industrial Park Sightseeing Area
The Modern Chinese Medicine Industrial Park Sightseeing Area is an important area displaying the modern production process of Chinese medicine. It covers an area of about 500 mu and includes modern Chinese medicine extraction workshops, preparation workshops, warehousing centers, and other facilities. Through dedicated sightseeing passages, tourists can closely observe the entire process of Chinese medicine from raw material processing, extraction and purification, preparation and forming, to quality testing, and understand the application of modern technology in Chinese medicine production. This area adopts internationally leading production techniques and quality control systems. Its automated production line can produce 100,000 tablets (capsules) of Chinese medicine preparations per hour, demonstrating the deep integration of the Chinese medicine industry and modern technology and allowing tourists to intuitively experience the modernization achievements of traditional Chinese medicine.
Food
Medicinal Health-Preserving Meals
The health-preserving restaurant in the scenic area specializes in medicinal health-preserving meals. Guided by traditional Chinese medicine theory, it selects medicinal and edible ingredients such as angelica, astragalus, Chinese yam, and goji berry, and pairs them with chicken, duck, fish, vegetables, and other ingredients to carefully prepare various dishes with health-preserving effects. For example, "Angelica and Astragalus Black Chicken Soup" uses high-quality black chicken, adds Chinese medicinal materials such as angelica and astragalus, and is simmered over low heat for more than 3 hours. It has the effect of replenishing qi and nourishing blood. "Chinese Yam and Goji Berry Porridge" uses Chinese yam, goji berry, and rice as ingredients. It has a soft and glutinous texture and helps strengthen the spleen and stomach. There are more than 50 medicinal dishes in the restaurant. Each dish indicates its health-preserving effects and suitable groups, so tourists can choose according to their own needs and enjoy health while tasting delicious food.
Chinese Herbal Tea
The tea shop in the scenic area provides a variety of specialty Chinese herbal teas, made from Chinese medicinal materials such as honeysuckle, chrysanthemum, mint, and rose through scientific proportioning and special techniques. For example, "Honeysuckle and Chrysanthemum Tea" has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying and is suitable for drinking in summer. "Rose Tea" has the effects of soothing the liver and regulating qi and beautifying the skin, and is deeply loved by female tourists. These Chinese herbal teas are not only refreshing in taste, but also retain the active ingredients of Chinese medicinal materials. They are affordable, with each cup priced between 8 and 15 yuan, making them a good choice for quenching thirst and preserving health during tourists' visits.
Surrounding Specialty Foods
Within 3 kilometers around the scenic area, there are many restaurants operating local Tianjin specialty foods, such as "Jinwei Restaurant." Its signature dish, "Goubuli Baozi," is a famous Tianjin snack known for its thin skin, generous filling, and delicious taste. The restaurant's baozi comes in multiple flavors such as pork filling and three-fresh filling. Each baozi weighs about 50 grams and is affordable. There is also "Erduoyan Fried Cake," with a crispy outer layer and sweet filling, made from glutinous rice flour and red bean paste. It is one of Tianjin's traditional specialty snacks and can be tasted in surrounding restaurants, providing tourists with more food choices.
Tickets：
Tickets are 80 yuan per person.
You can search for the official public account "Tianshili Great Health City" on WeChat to obtain the latest updates or purchase tickets online. As of July 28, 2025, the online ticket purchasing function of this official WeChat public account cannot be used normally.
Opening Hours：
Opening hours are Tuesday to Sunday 9:00-17:00, with last entry at 16:30; closed every Monday (except statutory holidays). The opening hours of the Modern Chinese Medicine Industrial Park Sightseeing Area are every Tuesday to Sunday at 10:00 and 14:00, with one tour each time. Each tour lasts about 1 hour. Tourists need to make a reservation and register at the scenic area entrance 30 minutes in advance. Opening hours during special holidays (such as the Spring Festival and National Day) may be adjusted. Please refer to the official announcement of the scenic area for details.
Recommended Tour Route：
Recommended tour route: Arrive at the scenic area at 9:00 a.m. and first visit the Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum (about 1.5 hours) to systematically understand the history and culture of traditional Chinese medicine; at 10:30 go to the Modern Chinese Medicine Industrial Park Sightseeing Area (about 1 hour) to experience the modern production process of Chinese medicine; at 11:30 enjoy medicinal health-preserving meals at the health-preserving restaurant in the scenic area (about 1 hour); at 13:00 go to the Big Health Experience Hall (about 1.5 hours) to participate in health testing and interactive experience projects; at 14:30 visit the Health Culture Garden (about 1 hour) to enjoy the medicinal plant landscape and participate in health preservation exercise learning; at 15:30 taste specialty Chinese herbal tea at the tea shop in the scenic area, and then end the full-day itinerary. This route lasts about 6.5 hours in total, covering the main attractions and specialty experience projects of the scenic area. The itinerary is relatively reasonable and suitable for one-day tourists.
Transportation：
Public transportation: Take Tianjin city buses 725, 812, or 909 to "Tianshili Station" and walk about 500 meters to reach the scenic area entrance.
Subway: Take Tianjin Metro Line 3 to "Huabeijituan Station," exit from Exit A, and transfer to bus 725 to "Tianshili Station." The whole journey takes about 30 minutes.
Self-driving: Starting from downtown Tianjin, drive north along Jingjin Highway, turn into Tingjiang Road, and go straight for about 2 kilometers to reach the scenic area. There is a parking lot in the scenic area with 500 parking spaces, and the parking fee is 5 yuan per hour.
Taxi: Taking a taxi from downtown Tianjin to the scenic area is about 20 kilometers, about 40 minutes, and costs about 50 yuan.
Must-Visit Attractions：
Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum: The museum houses more than 3,000 traditional Chinese medicine cultural relics and ancient books. Within the 8,000-square-meter exhibition hall, it displays the development process of traditional Chinese medicine from ancient times to modern times. Among them, the display of more than 1,000 kinds of Chinese medicine specimens is highly distinctive and is the core attraction for understanding traditional Chinese medicine culture.
Modern Chinese Medicine Industrial Park Sightseeing Area: A 500-mu modern production park that can produce 100,000 tablets (capsules) of Chinese medicine preparations per hour. Tourists can watch the modern production process of Chinese medicine up close and feel the integration of tradition and technology.
Big Health Experience Hall: A 5,000-square-meter experience space equipped with advanced health testing equipment, providing personalized health guidance, as well as interactive experiences such as traditional Chinese medicine processing. It is a must-visit place to experience a healthy lifestyle.
Travel Suggestions：
The recommended duration of visit is 1 day, which is sufficient to fully experience the main attractions and specialty projects in the scenic area.
Visiting the Modern Chinese Medicine Industrial Park Sightseeing Area requires reservation 30 minutes in advance at the scenic area entrance. It is recommended to complete the reservation first after arriving in the morning to avoid missing the tour session.
The Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum and the Big Health Experience Hall in the scenic area have professional guides. You can pay attention to the guide times announced by the scenic area. Following the guide can help you gain a deeper understanding of the relevant knowledge.
When visiting in summer, it is recommended to bring sun protection items and drinking water. Some areas of the Health Culture Garden have few shade facilities.
To taste medicinal health-preserving meals, you can make a telephone reservation in advance, especially during holidays, to avoid waiting in line.
Precautions：
Smoking is prohibited in the scenic area, and flammable and explosive dangerous goods are strictly prohibited.
When visiting the Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum, touching exhibits is prohibited, and flash photography is prohibited.
The Modern Chinese Medicine Industrial Park Sightseeing Area is a production area. Visitors must strictly follow the guidance of staff and must not leave the group without permission or touch production equipment.
The health testing items in the Big Health Experience Hall are for reference only and cannot replace diagnosis by professional medical institutions.
Medicinal plants in the scenic area are prohibited from being picked, and the garden environment must be protected.
It is recommended to wear comfortable sports shoes. The attractions in the scenic area are widely distributed, and the walking distance is relatively long.
There are many tourists during holidays. It is recommended to travel during off-peak periods. Choosing a weekday can provide a better experience.