In which province is Dalian located?

Liaoning Province

Dalian City is located at the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula, between 38°43'-40°10' north latitude and 120°58'-123°31' east longitude. . It borders the Bohai Sea to the northwest, faces the Yellow Sea to the southeast, faces the Shandong Peninsula across the sea, and strangles the Bohai Bay. It is known as the "Gateway to Beijing and Tianjin"; it backs up to the Northeast Continent in the north and has a vast hinterland, which can be called the "Window of the Northeast." Sea, land and air transportation extend in all directions and are very convenient. Dalian Port has established trade relations and shipping with more than 140 countries and regions in the world, and is an ideal transit port for the "land bridge" transportation between Europe and Asia; Shenyang-Dalian Railway, Shenyang-Dalian Expressway, Aida (Dalian to Aihui County, Heilongjiang Province) Four national-level highways, including Heda (from Dalian to Hegang City in Heilongjiang Province) and Zhuanglin (from Zhuanghe City to Linxi County in Inner Mongolia), as well as highways at all levels, form a dense railway and highway network that connects the three northeastern frontiers. and the eastern region of Inner Mongolia; Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport is one of the four international airports in the country, with 2 international routes and 26 domestic routes. Dalian City has become a hub for sea, land and air transport. The land area of ??Dalian is 12,573.83 square kilometers, of which 6 districts within the city cover 2,414.96 square kilometers, and 3 cities (county-level) and 1 county under the municipal jurisdiction cover 10,158.89 square kilometers. The coastline of Dalian is 1,906 kilometers long, accounting for 73% of the total coastline length of Liaoning Province, including 1,288 kilometers of land coastline and 618 kilometers of island coastline.

In 1993, the city's cultivated land area was 287,000 hectares, accounting for 22.8% of the total land area, including 33,000 hectares of paddy fields and 254,000 hectares of dry fields. There are 424,000 hectares of forestry land in the region (according to the 1985 Dalian Agricultural Resources Zoning Survey), accounting for 33.1% of the total land area, including 344,000 hectares of forest land, 30,000 hectares of unafforested afforestation land, and 33,000 hectares of barren hills suitable for forestation. The usable grassland area is 267,000 hectares (according to the 1985 Dalian Agricultural Resources Zoning Survey). There are 6 soil types. The zonal soil is brown soil, which is about 907,000 hectares, accounting for 81.5% of the total soil area; Meadow soil, paddy soil, aeolian soil, salt soil and swamp soil account for 18.5% in total. There are 66,000 hectares of tidal flat resources, accounting for 5.2% of the total land area, including 42,000 hectares on the Yellow Sea coast and 24,000 hectares on the Bohai Sea coast.

Nearly 30 types and more than 500 places of metal, non-metal minerals and geothermal mineral water resources have been discovered in Dalian area. Among them, non-metallic minerals such as limestone, silica, diamond, asbestos, magnesite and talc are of greater value. The proven diamond reserves account for about 54% of the country's total reserves, and 4 large-scale primary mines and 1 placer mine have been discovered in Wafangdian City. Limestone mines are concentrated in Ganjingzi District and Wafangdian City, with proven reserves accounting for about one-third of the province's total. More than a dozen large deposits and more than a hundred mineral sites have been discovered. The metal mineral resource reserves are not large and the ore bodies are small. They are mainly distributed in Zhuanghe and Pulandian cities. 70 iron ore points, more than 40 copper ore points, more than 20 lead-zinc ore points and a small amount of platinum (nickel) have been discovered. ), gold, molybdenum and other precious metal deposits. [Port Resources] The Dalian area has many excellent harbors, and the bedrock shore section of the harbor is 950 kilometers long. Among them, there are 14 coast sections suitable for development into commercial and fishing ports on the southern coast, with a total length of 29 kilometers; and 6 sections on the northern coast, with a total length of 8 kilometers. 11 ports have been built (including ports under construction). Dalian Bay is surrounded by mountains on three sides and has Sanshan Island as a natural barrier. It has deep water and wide bay, calm waves, no siltation and no freezing. It has Dalian Port (Dalian Port, Xianglujiao General Port, Monk Island Coal Port and Dalian New Port) and Dayao Bay. Port (newly built), forming a huge port group. The annual throughput of Dalian Port reaches 76 million tons.

Dalian has a mild climate, superior natural ecological environment, suitable for the growth and development of animals and plants, and is rich in biological resources. There are 152 families, 666 genera, and 1,747 species of terrestrial wild vascular plants, including 110 species of oil plants, more than 120 medicinal plants, more than 50 soil pesticide plants, and 50 plants that can extract starch or be used as raw materials for wine making. Various. The whole region is rich in apples, and the output of hawthorn, grapes and yellow peaches is also large. In recent years, strawberry planting has been carried out. There are more than 150 kinds of coastal algae, belonging to green algae, brown algae and red algae. More than 50 kinds of them have economic value. Artificial cultivation of kelp and wakame is carried out on a large scale. The annual production capacity of coastal organic carbon averages 1.4 tons per hectare. There are about 4,850 species of invertebrates and about 765 species of wild vertebrates in the entire region. Among them, there are 132 species of invertebrates with economic value or common ones, and 442 species of wild vertebrates. The coast is rich in fish and shrimp, as well as abalone, sea cucumber, scallops, purple sea urchins, snails and other marine treasures. Mussels, scallops, etc. are stocked in large areas in the bay. The domestication of pheasants and other wild animals has been carried out in the northern mountainous areas.

Dalian is a famous summer resort and tourist hotspot city in my country. It not only has the cultural and historical tourism resources of "half of the Natural Museum of Modern Chinese History", but also has many beautiful natural tourism resources. In 1998, it won the title of one of the first batch of outstanding tourist cities in China. The Southern Coastal Scenic Area, Lushunkou Scenic Area, Jinshitan Scenic Area and Bingyugou Scenic Area are the four major scenic spots in Dalian.

Dalian holds well-known international fashion festivals, import and export trade fairs, Spring Festival fireworks and firecrackers festivals, Sophora japonica appreciation fairs, international marathons, Bingyu Ice Lantern Festival and other large-scale events every year that are well-known at home and abroad. It also successfully holds the 97th China Tourism Fair and the The second China Flower Fair. Dalian City has increased investment in the development of tourism resources and further improved the tourism development pattern with the southern seaside as the center and Jinshitan and Lushun as the two wings. Jinshitan National Tourism Resort has: 18 standard fairway golf courses, villa leisure centers, international yacht clubs, hunting clubs and other entertainment centers. The city's tourism resources include the domestically leading Forest Zoo, Xinghai Square, Hutan Paradise, Binhai Road, Bangchui Island, etc. Lushun's tourism resources include Baiyu Mountain, East Jiguan Mountain, 203 Highlands, Huangjinshan Beach, etc.

As early as 6,000 years ago, our ancestors developed the Dalian area. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Dalian area was under the jurisdiction of Liaodong County. In the early Tang Dynasty, the Dalian area fell under the jurisdiction of Jili Prefecture, the Andong Protectorate. During the Liao Dynasty, the Dalian area was under the jurisdiction of Liaoyang Prefecture in Tokyo. The Dalian area was called Sanshan in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Sanshanpu in the Tang Dynasty, and Sanshan Haikou and Qingniwakou in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the 1880s, the Qing Dynasty built a harbor trestle, a fort, and a mine camp on the north shore of today's Dalian Bay, and it became a small town for a while. After the Russian occupation, Qingniwa was used. It was first called Dalian City in 1899. During the First and Second Opium Wars, the British army invaded the Dalian area. As the main battlefield of the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, Dalian suffered two major war disasters in modern history and became a Russian and Japanese colony for nearly half a century, including 40 years of Japanese colonial rule. In August 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, and Dalian was liberated from the victory in the anti-fascist war, ending colonial rule. In September of the same year, the preparatory committee of the Dalian Workers' Congress was formed. In October, the Northeast Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China sent Comrade Han Guang to Dalian as Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, formed the Dalian Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and established the Dalian Municipal Government. In July 1946, it was changed to the Luda Prefectural Committee. From 1949 to 1956, socialist transformation was basically completed; from 1957 to 1966, comprehensive socialist construction began; from 1966 to 1976, it experienced the "Cultural Revolution"; after 1976, it entered a new period of socialist modernization; in 1984, The State Council approved Dalian as an open coastal city. In 1985, Dalian was designated as a city under separate state planning by the State Council, enjoying provincial economic management authority.

Dalian Port was founded in 1899 and is China's third largest port and one of the largest foreign trade ports. The port has 65 berths for crude oil, refined oil, coal, steel, timber, grain, containers and dry general cargo, including 35 berths above 10,000 tons, with an annual throughput capacity of more than 80 million tons. Dalian Port has trade and transportation connections with more than 150 countries and regions in the world. Dayaowan Port, which is under construction, is China's largest international container transfer deep-water port. It plans to build 100 deep-water berths with a designed handling capacity of 80 million tons. In the first phase of the project, 4 container berths and 2 general-purpose berths are officially in operation. Construction of the berth has already begun.

Airport Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport, approved by the state, is located in the northwest of the city and can take off and land large passenger aircraft such as Boeing 747. 49 routes have been opened, connecting 47 cities at home and abroad.

Railway Dalian Railway is connected to the Northeast and North China railway networks. With the Changda Trunk Line as the main trunk line and branch lines such as Lushun, Jinzhuang, Nangan, Tianwu and Bailao as branches, they extend to the east and west coasts in the form of branches, connecting sea and land transportation. The total extended length of the line is 1,383.7 kilometers, of which the domestic section of the long line is 162 kilometers. There are 43 passenger and freight stations. The electrification renovation project of the Dalian-Harbin railway that is being planned will become the beginning of China's Shinkansen.

The total mileage of existing highways in Dalian is 4,091 kilometers, including 4,089 kilometers of Class 4 or above highways, 1,710 highway bridges, and a highway density of 32.5 kilometers per 100 square kilometers. There are 62 urban bus operating lines with a total length of 625.3 kilometers. There are 18.8 standard buses per 10,000 people, with a daily passenger flow of 2.973 million. Dalian’s postal and telecommunications services (international letters, international phone calls, international telegraphs, etc.) can reach more than 190 countries and regions in the world. Nearly 50 services including mobile communications, wireless paging, packet switching, DDN, CHINANET, voice information, and express delivery have been launched. Both urban and rural communications have realized program-controlled exchanges and digital transmission. The city's total telephone exchange capacity will reach 1.5 million in 2000.

Dalian currently has 5 power plants above 50,000 kilowatts and 12 generating units with a total installed capacity of 1.05 million kilowatts. There are 172 power transmission lines above 35 kV in the region, with a total length of 2,692.8 kilometers. There are 128 substations of 35 kV and above in the region. Two 350,000-kilowatt coal-fired steam turbine generator units of the second phase project of Dalian Huaneng Power Plant have been connected to the grid to generate electricity. The total freshwater resources in Dalian are 4.94 billion cubic meters per year, of which surface water resources are 3.61 billion cubic meters per year and groundwater resources are 1.33 billion cubic meters per year. The largest river, Biliu River, is the water source river for cross-basin water diversion in the urban area. Dalian currently has 10 water supply reservoirs with a total storage capacity of 1 billion cubic meters. There are currently 9 water purification plants, 51 high-level distribution tanks, and a total water supply pipeline network of 3,343 kilometers. The urban tap water penetration rate reaches 100%.

There are currently 2 gas production plants with a daily production capacity of 660,000 cubic meters. The total length of the gas pipeline network is 1,627 kilometers. The liquefied gas supply capacity is 21,000 tons/year. By the end of 1998, the city's gasification penetration rate reached 94.7%. The total heating area in the four districts of Dalian is 42.56 million square meters, and the urban residential heating penetration rate is 88.19%. The city now has 7 thermal power plants, 32 regional boiler rooms of 7 MW or above, and a centralized heating area of ??15.42 million square meters. Currently, two thermal power plants in Xianghai and Taishan are under preparation and are expected to be put into use in 2000.

Dalian City has more than 30 hotels with stars or above, including Furama Hotel, Lijing Hotel, International Hotel, Jiuzhou Hotel, Dalian Hotel, Shangri-La Hotel, and Swissotel. Dalian Taoyuan Villa and Seaside Garden Foreign Living Area were built in the old urban area and the development zone respectively, providing very convenient living service facilities for foreign friends who come to Dalian for tourism and work.

In 1998, Dalian City fully implemented the strategy of "revitalizing the city through science and education" and became the first city in the country to enter the ranks of advanced cities in revitalizing the city through science and education. The city has arranged 266 science and technology plans of various types, achieved 300 major scientific and technological achievements, and 371 patented technologies have been granted patent rights by the state. It has introduced more than 4,000 foreign experts and sent 619 overseas training personnel. The construction of improved seed selection and factory-based high-efficiency agricultural demonstration bases has achieved initial results, and 98 new agricultural varieties have been introduced. The computer software industry project was implemented, and the construction of Dalian Software Park was officially launched. More than 2,000 private technology companies have achieved a total revenue of 3.5 billion yuan from technology, industry and trade. The technology market turnover was 620 million yuan, an increase of 12.8% over the previous year. The 10th "Science Popularization Winter" event was held to actively promote the popularization of science in rural areas. Completed 105 "Golden Bridge Project" projects and provided 2,502 scientific and technological consultations.

Education has developed steadily. The city's kindergarten enrollment rate is 77%, the enrollment rate of primary school-age children is 99.6%, and the enrollment rate of junior middle school-age population is 99.3%. There are 8,240 high school graduates admitted to ordinary colleges and universities, 8,872 working employees and young people admitted to adult colleges and universities, and 8,642 students in local universities in the city. We built and expanded 268,000 square meters of primary and secondary school buildings, renovated 139,000 square meters of dilapidated old school buildings, and built the first batch of new schools with higher standards in Dalian Yuming Senior High School. There are 54,000 square meters of new teachers' residences, and the per capita housing area for primary and secondary school teachers' families has reached 9.7 square meters.

The total population is 5.432 million, the male and female structure is 275.60:267.60, the natural growth rate is 265.60‰, of which: 11,100 non-agricultural population.

The total number of urban and rural employees is 2.812 million, of which: the primary industry accounts for 27.30%, the secondary industry accounts for 34.80%, and the tertiary industry accounts for 37.90%.

Reserve talents: There are currently 1.312 million employees, including 250,000 professional and technical personnel. Foreign-invested enterprises currently have 200,000 employees. Every year, the city adds 13,000 college graduates, 12,000 professionally trained reserve workers and 62,000 other labor forces into the talent market.

Dalian is a football city. It became the first football special zone in the country in 1992. The Dalian Wanda Football Team has won the National Football Professional League A championship four times. In the 1998 National Youth Football Competition, the Dalian team won the Win the championship in nine games. Dalian is the "hometown of track and field", and the "Ma Jiajun" training base is located in Dalian. Most of the main team members are Dalian people. Dalian girl "Oriental Sacred Deer" Wang Junxia won the 5,000-meter gold medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. At the Eighth National Games, Dalian athletes won 22 gold medals, 15 silver medals and 6 bronze medals. Swimming star Chen Yan set two world records and two Asian records. In the past five years, Dalian athletes have won 16 world championships and broken world records 24 times. In 1998 alone, Dalian athletes won 49 gold medals in national and international competitions, including 14 at the international level. Dalian hosted the 4th National Paralympic Games, Dalian International Marathon and World Beach Volleyball Championship, and achieved complete success. Dalian has fully implemented the National Fitness Plan Outline, mass sports activities have been carried out extensively, and it has been rated as a national advanced city for mass sports work for many years in a row.

Dalian's medical and health services have developed steadily and has become a "healthy city". The city currently has 1,655 health and medical institutions of various types at all levels, 26,183 beds in hospitals and health centers, and 32,543 health technicians. There are 4.82 hospital beds and 2.53 doctors per 1,000 people. Medical institutions received 21.266 million patient diagnoses and treatments, and conducted 423,000 health examinations. The city's incidence of infectious diseases dropped by 24.7% compared with the previous year, and the vaccination rate of the "four vaccines" for children's planned immunization reached 98.9%, ranking among the advanced levels in the country. The average life expectancy reaches 75.75 years (including 73.47 years for men and 77.96 years for women), the family planning rate is 99.9%, and the natural population growth rate is 0.223%. The health reform has made breakthrough progress, and it has taken the lead in implementing the medical insurance system in large and medium-sized cities across the country. In the fourth city health inspection, it was identified as an "inspection-free city" by the National Patriotic Association.