1860年,天津开埠,西方文化的进入与李鸿章的洋务运动及袁世凯的新政,使得天津得到了近代文明的滋润,成为中国看世界的窗口。在最近20年中,天津迅速完成了都市化进程,跃升到与上海南北辉映的星级城市。利顺德,是中国最早的现代意义上的酒店。有人曾经这样评价:“近代 In 1860, the opening of Tianjin, the entry of Western culture and Li Hongzhang’s Westernization Movement and Yuan Shikai’s New Deal made Tianjin enjoy the moisture of modern civilization and became the window through which China viewed the world. In the last two decades, Tianjin quickly completed the process of urbanization and jumped to a star city that mirrored Shanghai’s north and south. Lee Shunde, China’s earliest modern sense of the hotel. Someone once commented: ”Modern times