Dalian is located at the southern end
of Liaodong peninsula, overlooking the Yellow sea in the north,
facing Bohai bay on the west, looking across the sea to the
Shandong peninsula, and in the north leaning on the boundless
Northeast plain. It is the sea gateway for north China. Dalian
is an important seaport as well as the city of trade, industry
and tourism. The area of Dalian occupies 12,574 sq.km with
the coastline of 1, 906 km and a population of 5,90 million.
It leans on mountains and is surrounded by the sea, it has
four distinct seasons with mild winters and summers that are
not extremely hot. The average temperature is 10,5 *C. Traffic
in Dalian is convenient and the trade is booming. The production
is abundant and it is rich in apples, hawthorns, strawberries,
fresh fish, shells, oysters and other seafood. It is a beautiful
coastal city in northeast China and one of the most famous
Chinese cities for tourism. After many years of construction
and development, Dalian has become the cleanest city of China,
a fine example of a city that protects environment, an outstanding
touristic city and the first city to be introduced in cooperation
between China an Japan regarding environment. It is also the
city famous in China for its parks and gardens and the best
place to live in China. In 1999 it obtained the United Nation’s
“Population Award”, and in the year 2000 it was named “one
of the 500 world cities that protect environment” by UN Office
for Enviromental Development. At the same time it is “the
city of fashion”, “the football city”, but it also has many
more reputations. Today Dalian has set up the frame for building
a famous international city and it is making a steady progress
towards becoming a regional center for international shipping,
a trade center, a finance center, an information centre and
the centre of tourism. It has already become one of the most
blooming Chinese cities that is bursting with attractiveness.
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