Dalian

Located on the southern tip of the Eastern Liaoning Peninsula, Dalian has a superb geographical location and serves as a gateway to Beijing and Tianjin, with the Yellow Sea on its east, the Bohai Sea on its west, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang, the three provinces of Northeastern China and part of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on its north. The ideal location, agreeable climate and beautiful scenery enable Dalian to become in Northern China an important center of international shipping, finance, business, tourism and information. Dalian is a city privileged with a provincial economic administration.

Dalian is an important hub of communications in Northern China and an important international shipping center in the northeast of Asia. It is a hub of comprehensive transportation system with a powerful capacity either through the sea, land or air. The Dalian Port is a world-known deep and ice-free harbor, having shipping relations with over 160 countries and regions and undertaking more than 70% of cargo transportation and 90% of containerized traffic. Dalian is a big foreign trade port in the Northern China and the largest goods transfer port in the northeast of China. Dalian International Airport has opened nearly 100 domestic and international air routes and has been the largest airfreight transport base in the northeast of China. Dalian is linked with the well-developed highway and railway networks. In the city proper, there are many convenient public transportation lines with light rails, street cars and buses.

As an important industrial base of China, Dalian has all categories of industries capable of manufacturing complete sets of equipments. Dalian is the building base of large ships and maritime projects in China. Its shipbuilding industry accounts for one-third of the total industry in China. Dalian is the manufacture and export base of machinery manufacturing industry. Its power inner combustion locomotives, machine tools and tires, refrigeration machinery, bearings, and diesel engines are world-famous. Meanwhile, Dalian is the manufacture and export base of digitalized audio-visual products. Dalian is also the base of petroleum refining and the city of internationalized software industry. Dalian DD Port is the industrial base to develop biological engineering and digitalized technology. Its specialized industrial parks including the digitalized manufacturing park, the biological engineering park and the pharmaceutical industrial park have displayed the industry’s aggregative effect and have expanded the industrial scale. Such noted companies as Dalian Zhen’ao Company is developing beyond imagination in the industrial parks.

Dalian has an integrated and ideal science and technology education and vocation training system and is rich in science and technology human resources. There are 21 universities and colleges with 120,000 undergraduates, over 10,000 in-school doctors and postgraduates, 18 state academicians of natural science and engineering, 260,000 scientific research personnel and over 1,000,000, high-qualified industrial workers. Dalian University of Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Northeast Finance and Economy University and Dalian Medical University are all well-known universities in China. The Maritime Training Center of the United Nations Asia Development Office has set up in Dalian Maritime University. Dalian Research Institute of Chemical Physics, Guangming Chemical Research Institute and Maritime Environment Protection Research Institute are all famous research institutes in China.