Dalian, as the largest port city in northeast China, is given the good name of “window of the northeast”. It is a city with separate national economic and social development planning, a vice provincial-level city, an open-up city along the coast, and one of the 10 cities with most dynamic economies in China. Its GDP in 2009 reached 441 billion, an increase of 15% year-on-year.

Dalian has a solid industrial foundation, full categories of industries and relatively strong abilities of comprehensive integration, with excellent capacities for absorbing international industries, especially manufacturing industrial transfers. As of today, Dalian has already formed an industrial system with the petrochemical, electronics, machinery, light textile and garment, metallurgy and building materials, foodstuff and medicine etc. as the mainstays, and many industrial enterprises as backbones in their respective industries in China. Dalian’s agriculture crops mainly include maize, wheat, and rice. With many fishing grounds along its coast, it is one of the major fish production areas of China. Transportation is very convenient in Dalian. It is a water, land and sea transportation hub, with several domestic airline routes and unfixed international tourism routes.