Dalian, also known as Bincheng, formerly known as Darini and Qingniwa, is a sub-provincial city and a city under separate state planning in Liaoning Province. Located at the southern tip of Liaodong Peninsula in Liaoning Province, on the coast of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, backed by the northeast hinterland of China and across the sea from Shandong Peninsula, it is an important economic, trade, port, industrial and tourist city along the eastern coast of China, and also a new first-tier city.

Dalian has a long history. As early as 6000 years ago, our ancestors developed Dalian, which was called Dalian in 1899. During the First Opium War and the Second Opium War, British troops invaded Dalian. As the main battlefield of the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, Dalian suffered two major war robberies in modern history and became a colony of Russia and Japan for nearly half a century.

Dalian has an excellent environment, with no cold in winter and no heat in summer. Known as the "window to the Northeast", "Pearl of the North" and "Romantic City", it is the window to the northeast of China and the largest port city. It has successively won the honors of international garden city, China's best tourist city and national environmental protection model city.

Dalian is the permanent host city of the World Economic Forum (WEF) summer Davos, with the largest agricultural futures exchange in China and the second largest soybean futures market in the world: Dalian Commodity Exchange. June 20 14, China's tenth national new district-Dalian Jinpu New District was formally established.

On June 4th, 20 16, the Research Report on Livable Cities in China released by Chinese Academy of Sciences showed that Dalian's livability index ranked fourth among 40 cities in China. 20 16 12.30 the national development and reform commission and other four departments have identified Dalian and other cities as demonstration cities for the development and reform of private economy in northeast China.