About_Dalian

The city Dalian is located on the eastern bank of the Eurasian Continent and the southernmost point of the Liaodong Peninsula in the northeastern part of China.It is washed by the Yellow Sea on the east and the Bohai Sea on the west,overlooking the Shandong Peninsula across the sea to the south and bordering the great span of the Northeast Plain to the north.It serves as the marine gateway for northeast China and Inner Mongolia to have access to North China and East China.

The Dalian Municipality now have six districts(Zhongshan,Xigang,Shahekou,Ganjingzi,Lushunkou,and Jinzhou Districts),three country-level cities (Wafangdian,Pulandian,and Zhuanghe cities) and one country(the Changhai country) under its jurisdiction.Its total area is 12,573.85km2,and its total population by the end of 2000 was 5.515 million.

Dalian lies in the warm temoerate zone of the North Hemisphere,and so enjoys a warm temperate continental monsoon climate with maritime climatic features.It has no extremely cold weather in winter,no utterly hot days in summer,but still with four distinctive seasons.The total annual sunshine in the region is 2,500-2,800 hours,and the average temperatureof yhe year is 8.4C-10.5C,with an annual average rainfall ranging from 600 mm to 790 mm.

Dalian covers a total area of 1.34 million hectares,in which 444,000 hectares are arable land,366,700 hectares are forests,93,000 hectares are orchards and garden land,and another 59,000 hectares are barren land suitable for agriculture or forestry.The soil in the region is mainly brown earth,which covers an area of 907,000 hectares,counting for 81.47% of the land area of Dalian.

Dalian claims spacious sea surface of cover 30,000 square kilometers and the coastline stretches 1,906 kilometers.The area is blessed with numerous bays and islands,the number of which amounts to as much as 30,with a total area of over 100,000 hectares.Most important among them are the Dalian Bay,the Dayaowan Bay,the Pulandian Bay,the Jinzhou Bay,and the Fuzhouwan Bay.Sheltered from wind and waves from outer seas,they never freeze nor still all year round.There are as many as 705 islands of different sizes,covering a total area of 30,000 hectares.The largest among them are the Changshan Island,Guanglu Island,and the River Deer Island.Islands closest to the continent include the Changxing Island,the Xizhong Island and the Fengming Island.

Over 40 different kinds of mineral resources,which are scattered in over 500 sites,have already been verified in the entire Dalian region.Mineral resources mainly fall into three categories:metal,non-metal and building material,the latter two of which are rich in reserve.The reserve of diamond ranks the first in the country,and the quality of diamond here is among the top in the world.And there are rich reserves for non-metal mines including limestone,silica,marble,asbestos and granite.