The city became a treaty port in 1876 and has remained a commercial center since that time.

At that time, Shanghai was one of the five treaty ports.

In 1842, Shanghai became a treaty port, thus developing into an international commercial city.

The treaty port system in China lasted broadly speaking one hundred years.

It is not possible to put an exact date on the end of the treaty port era.

It was one of the Treaty Ports open to foreign settlement in the 19th century.

The treaty ports of the world were never entered by her visiting battleships.

The Federation badly needs a treaty port in this cluster."

(It took as its model the Chinese treaty port system.)

Foreign clubs, racecourses, and churches were established in major treaty ports.

During the late 1800s Ganzhou was opened as one of the southern treaty ports and became a minor base for foreign companies.

Just as in the treaty ports, Hong Kong stamps were used.

Even though we administer it, Luna City is a treaty port.

Kunming became a treaty port opening to foreign trade in 1908 and soon became a commercial center.

Wenzhou was a prosperous foreign treaty port, which remains well-preserved today.

Instead, the treaty port was moved to the area nearer to the river mouth where today's Yingkou is located.

By the end of the nineteenth century there were nine foreign banks with forty-five branches in China's treaty ports.

The political uncertainty over the future of the treaty ports meant that the British government was not inclined to invest in their upgrade.

One legacy of this period is an historic waterfront district lined with buildings in the treaty port style.

The matter of treaty ports is being renegotiated.

He was among those treaty port residents who contributed to Western knowledge of China through translations and scientific work.

In 1908 it was accepted wisdom that "no treaty port is complete without its Astor House".

Clarke was born at the treaty port of Yokohama, as the son of a baker.

Whatever residues of the treaty port era were left in the late 1940s were ended when the communists took over China.

Southeast, one to two miles away, along the Hai River, was the treaty port and foreign settlements.