[2] Heping District has historically been the center of culture, commerce, and finance in Tianjin.

[3] During the Song dynasty, the lands of today's Heping District was under Qingchi count of Cangzhou.

Following the Jingkang incident, Qingchi county, along with most of Song territories north of Yellow River was occupied by Jin dynasty.

Due to its long distance from the originally city center, the district was sparsely populated and underdeveloped.

Since 1860, many part of the district was given to Britain, United States, France and Japan as concessions.