Dalian Port lies at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula in Liaoning province and is the northern-most ice-free port in China.

The Port of Tianjin is the largest port in Northern China and the main maritime gateway to Beijing.

Qingdao Port is situated near Jiaozhou Bay on the Shandong peninsula, neighbouring the Yellow Sea. It consists of four harbour areas.

In 2010, Shanghai port overtook Singapore to become the busiest container port in the world.

The Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan is the busiest in the world in terms of cargo tonnage, handling 888.96 million tons of cargo in 2015.

Fuzhou Port acts as a national traffic hinge and is one of the trial direct routes to Taiwan appointed by China’s Ministry of Communication.

The Port of Xiamen is an important deep-water port. It is ranked the 8th-largest container port in China and 16th in the world.

Shantou Port is a natural river seaport located on the coastline of east Guangdong Province and is one of the major coastal ports in China.

Located by the South China Sea, Hong Kong is a deep-water seaport dominated by trade in containerised manufactured products.

We look at the Port of Shenzhen, which is a collective name of a number of ports along parts of the coastline of Shenzhen in Guangdong.

Guangzhou Port is the main seaport of Guangzhou city, in Guangdong province. It is the departure point of the Marine Silk Road.