Dalian has a pleasant climate with four distinct seasons, no heat in summer and no cold in winter.
Dalian is rich in natural resources, with a suitable temperature and a long coastline of 1906 km. It is an important producing area of fruits, aquatic products and rice in China. Fruits such as apples and yellow peaches and seafood such as abalone, prawns, sea cucumbers and scallops are famous at home and abroad. The quality of diamond mines is excellent, accounting for more than half of the total reserves in China.
Dalian was founded on 1899. 1945165438+1On October 8th, Dalian Municipal Government was established. 1984 China municipal government approved Dalian as an open coastal city and a city with separate plans, enjoying provincial economic management authority, and 1996 approved the opening of some areas in Lushunkou District. Dalian now has jurisdiction over six districts of Zhongshan, Xigang, Shahekou, Ganjingzi, Lushunkou and Jinzhou, three county-level cities of Wafangdian and Zhuanghe, and Changhai 1 island county, with a total area of 1.25 million square kilometers and a population of 5.894 million, including an urban area of 549.27 square kilometers and a population of 265438.
Dalian enjoys convenient land, sea and air transportation and is an important transportation hub in northern China.
Dalian Port is a natural port with a vast water area, which is neither frozen nor silted. It has trade and transportation with ports in more than 50 countries and regions in the world, and the annual cargo throughput in 2000 has reached 96.99 million tons. The first phase of Dayaowan New Port has been completed. After the completion of all the projects, the annual throughput can be increased by 80 million tons, and it will become the largest container hub port, grain terminal and oil terminal in northern China.
Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport has opened 88 domestic and international routes, including international route 13, and established irregular chartered flight business relations with airlines of some European and American countries. It is the largest cargo air transport base in Northeast China.
Dalian Railway is connected with the railway networks in the northeast and north of China. The 375-kilometer-long Shenyang-Dalian expressway closely connects Dalian with the urban agglomeration in central Liaoning. The road construction in Dalian has developed rapidly, and the Shugang Road built in recent years has become the east-west traffic artery of the city. The cross-sea expressway connecting the old and new urban areas of Dalian will shorten the driving time from the old urban area to the development zone to 30 minutes; The Huanghai Avenue across pulandian city, zhuanghe city, Jinzhou District and Development Zone was completed and opened to traffic, and the reconstruction project of Lushun South Road was completed, forming a two-way four-row highway with a total length of 180 km, starting from Zhuanghe in the north and reaching Lushun in the south. The 46.6 km rapid rail transit from the Economic Development Zone to Jinshitan will be completed within 200 1 year.
Dalian's telecommunications industry has developed rapidly. Program-controlled telephone exchange and digital transmission have been realized in urban and rural areas of the city, and post and telecommunications services have reached more than 80 countries and regions in the world. The total capacity of telephone exchanges is 6.5438+0.92 million, and the local telephone penetration rate is 56/100 people. Dalian has complete water supply, power supply, gas supply and heating facilities and sufficient supply. Huaneng Dalian Power Plant, Dalian Thermal Power Plant and other 14 power plants are connected to China Northeast Power Grid. Superior natural conditions and good infrastructure make Dalian one of the cities with rapid economic growth in China. In 2000, the GDP reached111.800 million yuan.
Dalian is an important industrial base in China. Ocean-going ships, diesel locomotives, precision bearings, refrigeration equipment, petrochemicals and diamonds are the pillar products of China industry, with complete industrial categories and strong comprehensive supporting capacity. In 2000, the total industrial output value was 224.7 billion yuan.
Dalian's agriculture mainly produces grain, fruits and aquatic products, and enjoys the reputation of "the hometown of apples" and "the aquatic product base". In 2000, the total agricultural output value reached 654.38+09.29 billion yuan. Dalian is a financial city in the northeast of China. National financial institutions have branches here. Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong have set up 65,438+00 foreign banks and 6 representative offices in Dalian. There are nearly 300 scientific research institutions with 373,000 scientific and technical personnel, 3 academicians of China Academy of Sciences/KLOC-0 and 3 academicians of China Academy of Engineering. There are 15 universities in Dalian, with 79,500 undergraduate and junior college students.
Dalian is a famous sports city in China, a national key football city and the first "football special zone" in China. Dalian Football won the championship five times in the 7-year A League. Dalian is also the hometown of track and field in China. Wang Hequ, who broke the world records of10000m and1500m, are both from Dalian. In 2000, Dalian athlete * * * won 63 gold medals in national and international competitions. At the 27th Sydney Olympic Games, Dalian girl ding meiyuan won the women's 75kg gold medal.
Dalian is a famous tourist city and summer resort in northern China. In 2000, it received 338,000 overseas tourists and earned 234 million US dollars. The coastal highway near the mountains and the sea connects many coastal landscapes, which makes people linger. The southern coastal scenic spot, Lushunkou scenic spot, Jinshitan scenic spot and Bingyugou scenic spot are national and provincial key scenic spots respectively. Numerous star-rated hotels, hotels, villas and foreigners' living quarters, as well as perfect entertainment facilities, provide good services for guests and friends who come to Lian for business and tourism.
Dalian attaches great importance to environmental protection and transformation. The urban greening coverage rate is 40.5%, and the per capita public green space is 8.5 square meters. The urban environmental quality has improved significantly, and it has been successively rated as a national health city, a national environmental protection model city, a national garden city, an excellent tourist city in China, and a demonstration city for environmental improvement in the Asia-Pacific region. In 2000, it was awarded the best example of improving Dubai's living environment and the title of the top 500 global environment awarded by the United Nations.
Dalian has become one of the most open cities in China. The opening-up pilot zone has developed rapidly. Dalian Economic and Technological Development Zone has now developed 40 square kilometers. By the end of 2000, there were more than 65,438 foreign-invested enterprises in the region, with a total investment of 654.38 billion US dollars. It is the largest economic and technological development zone in China at present, and it is also a window for Dalian and even the whole Northeast to open to the outside world.
Dalian Bonded Zone is the only bonded zone in the northeast of China, which was approved by the government of China in May 1992 and is a comprehensive open zone built according to the model of international trade free zone. The infrastructure construction of 2 square kilometers in the starting area has been completed, and more than 300 domestic and foreign enterprises have settled in/kloc-0.
Dalian Hi-tech Industrial Park 199 1 was established with the approval of China Municipal Government in March, covering an area of 35.6 square kilometers (including double D ports and software parks), with more than 700 enterprises/KLOC-0 and more than 400 high-tech enterprises.
Dalian Jinshitan National Tourist Resort 1992+ 10 was approved by the State Council, and now it has built golf courses, international conference centers, hunting clubs, international yacht clubs and other projects, making it the best seaside tourist resort in northern China. Dalian's foreign economic relations and trade are booming. At present, the total value of self-operated foreign trade import and export commodities in the city is 54.395 billion US dollars, of which 22.7./kloc-0.6 billion US dollars is imported and 36.5438+0.679 billion US dollars is exported. The city has approved 8 162 foreign-invested enterprises, with contracted foreign capital of 654.38+09.24 billion US dollars and actually used foreign capital of 9.359 billion US dollars.
Dalian's convention and exhibition industry has developed rapidly. 1996 xinghai convention and exhibition center is the largest exhibition hall in northeast China. In 2000, 52 exhibitions were held, and the transaction volume exceeded 30 billion yuan. Every year, Dalian hosts large-scale activities such as Dalian International Fashion Festival, Dalian Export Commodities Fair, Huaihua Fair, International Marathon, Fireworks Spring Festival, etc., which attracts many politicians, envoys, businessmen, artists, athletes, journalists and tourists from all over the world. Dalian International Fashion Festival has been successfully held for 12, which has become a grand festival for Dalian people and a "business card" for Dalian to go to the whole country and the world.
Dalian's foreign friendly cooperation is developing day by day. Since 1979, Dalian has established sister cities or friendly cooperative relations with 13 cities, including Kitakyushu and Maizuru in Japan, Auckland and Houston in the United States, Bremen and Rostock in Germany, le havre in France, Glasgow in Britain, Vancouver in Canada, Incheon Metropolis in South Korea and Vladivostok in Russia, which have promoted the cooperation between the two sides.
Today's Dalian is being carefully built according to the concept of "not seeking the biggest, but seeking the best". By 20 10, Dalian will become an important international transportation hub, an advanced industrial base and one of the trade, finance, tourism and information centers in Northeast Asia.