If you don’t know Tianjin, just compare Dalian and Qingdao

1: In terms of strong enterprises

Qingdao is stronger than Dalian

Qingdao has a A number of well-known Chinese companies, such as Haier Group, Hisense Group, Qingdao Iron and Steel Holding Group, Tsingtao Beer Co., Ltd., Aucma Group, Yizhong Tobacco (Group), Double Star Group, etc. Won the title of "Chinese Brand Capital", it has the only top 100 most influential brand in the world - Haier in mainland China. It also has 44 kinds of Chinese famous brand products, 15 Chinese well-known trademarks, and 5 companies have won the National Quality Management Award. .

Although currently Dalian enterprises are far from comparable to Qingdao Haier and Tsingtao Beer. Dalian also has many powerful enterprises, such as Dashang Group (third in the country), No. 1 in retail industry in China; Wanda, also one of China's real estate giants; Dalian Shipyard, Dalian New Shipbuilding Plant, Dalian Locomotive Factory, etc. are among the best in the country. It is also quite famous in the world; Daxian, Shide, Bingshan Group, Wazhou, Dashang Group, Metro Pharmaceuticals, Huafeng Furniture, etc. are also quite famous in the country and are booming; Dalian Commodity Exchange is one of the three futures companies in the country. One of the exchanges, it ranks first in China in terms of futures trading volume and recently ranked first in the world in terms of soybean futures trading.

2: Educational science and technology

Dalian is stronger than Qingdao

Qingdao has the most marine talents, 25 marine scientific research, education and management institutions, national key comprehensive Ocean University of China, a marine institution of higher learning, is located here; it has more than half of China's domestic marine science and technology talents, but Qingdao's scientific and technological talents are not as good as Dalian. Dalian has almost twenty universities while Qingdao only has about five. In the Ministry of Education's survey on the employment city preferences of college students, Dalian ranked fifth after Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, and much higher than Qingdao. In terms of computer software development, Dalian is clearly ahead of Qingdao. In 2001, Dalian was approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology as the only "software industry internationalization demonstration city" in the country. The State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs approved Dalian City to establish the country's first "National Software Talent International Training Base".

3. Comparison of competitiveness

Dalian is stronger than Qingdao

In recent years, there have been dozens of city competitiveness rankings. Most of them have shown that Dalian is stronger than Qingdao, and many have ranked Dalian in the top ten. However, Qingdao did not even enter the tenth place. For example, in the second phase of the "World's Most Advantaged Cities" selection of the world's most promising emerging cities launched by Jones Lang LaSalle on May 30, 2003, China's top cities include Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Suzhou. Eight cities including Dalian, Chongqing and Xi'an were selected into the 24 "World's Most Potential Cities", including Dalian but not Qingdao. The "China Urban Development Report (2001-2002)" published in early 2003 proposed for the first time an indicator system for measuring China's urban development, as well as methods and detection methods for assessing a city's "real development capacity." The report shows that the top ten Chinese cities with "real development capabilities" are Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Nanjing, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Shenyang, and Dalian. Among the top ten are Dalian but not Qingdao. In most of the multiple competitions announced in 2002, Dalian was better than Qingdao. For example, Dalian ranks sixth in the comprehensive strength ranking of cities in the domestically authoritative "Economic Daily", much higher than Qingdao. In the recent urban development report of the Academy of Sciences, Dalian entered the top ten for urban development potential, while Qingdao did not. In a previous well-known research report on the internationalization of Chinese cities (probably made by experts from Renmin University), it was pointed out that Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, and Dalian will be the five cities in my country that can develop into international metropolises. According to the Economic Daily, a recent study based on international practice ranked the economic development environment and competitiveness of my country's major cities. The results showed that in the national city competitiveness rankings, the city competitiveness rankings were Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen. , Guangzhou, Dalian, Tianjin, Qingdao, Nanjing, Wuhan, and Xiamen; the economic development environment rankings are Shanghai, Shenzhen, Beijing, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Dalian, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Wuhan, and Chengdu.

However, there is also a recent city ranking that ranks Dalian far behind Qingdao. In the "First China City Competitiveness Ranking" (2002), the comprehensive competitiveness of Dalian (8) surpassed Qingdao (13). Compared with the first ranking in the second ranking, Qingdao advanced from 13th to 12th, while Dalian ranked 12th. Regressed from 8th to 19th.

According to the "Second China City Competitiveness Ranking" (2003), the comprehensive competitiveness of Qingdao (12) exceeds that of Dalian (19). Qingdao's competitiveness exceeds that of Dalian in 7 categories: talent competitiveness Qingdao 16, Dalian 25, scientific and technological competitiveness Qingdao 6, Dalian 19, cultural competitiveness Qingdao 19, Dalian 37, institutional competitiveness Qingdao 13, Dalian 34, government management competitiveness Qingdao ranks 12th and Dalian 33rd, enterprise management competitiveness Qingdao 8th and Dalian 37th, open competitiveness Qingdao 21st and Dalian 22nd. Dalian surpasses Qingdao in 5 categories: capital competitiveness Qingdao 11, Dalian 10, structural competitiveness Qingdao 26, Dalian 23, facility competitiveness Qingdao 24, Dalian 4, location competitiveness Qingdao 31, Dalian 29, environmental competitiveness Qingdao 7, Dalian1. This is the most favorable ranking for Qingdao in recent years.

4. In terms of economy

Qingdao’s total economic indicators mostly exceed Dalian’s per capita economic indicators, and Dalian’s most exceed Qingdao’s.

5. In some specific development measures In terms of quality, Qingdao and Dalian are also surprisingly similar. (1) Dalian’s International Fashion Festival is very famous and has become a brand festival in Dalian. Therefore, Qingdao has also held Qingdao International Fashion Week since 2001. (2) Dalian’s International Aviation and Navigation Model Exhibition is very famous and is also a famous brand exhibition in Dalian. So in 2002, Qingdao also held the first Qingdao Navigation Model Exhibition. (3) Qingdao International Beer Festival has been held for 12 times since 1991 and has become a famous brand festival in Qingdao. Therefore, Dalian also held the China International Beer Festival for the first time in 2002, which is expected to compare with Qingdao International Beer Festival. momentum going down. (4) Qingdao’s tire and rubber industry is very developed. Famous companies include Huanghai Rubber Group and Double Star Group. Therefore, in 2002, Dalian claimed to have introduced the country’s largest tire and rubber company and would build the country’s largest tire and rubber base. (5) Dalian's shipbuilding industry is well-known throughout the country. In 2002, Qingdao took advantage of the opportunity of the Olympic Games to be held in Qingdao to relocate the entire shipyard that was originally not prosperous, claiming to build the largest shipbuilding base in the country. (6) On June 3, 2001, the Dalian Municipal Party Committee issued a decision on building a learning city. For more than a year, the activity of building a learning city in Dalian has been in full swing. One year and two months later, on September 2, 2002, the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government jointly issued opinions on creating a learning city, and the creation of a learning city in Qingdao was officially launched. (7) In the 1990s, Dalian was very famous as a business city. It brought about amazing changes in Dalian's urban environment. For a time, Dalian became a tourist destination that people yearned for. Some people say that Qingdao's urban construction is 10 years behind Dalian. In 2000, Qingdao first proposed and implemented the concept of city management. (8) In the mid-1990s, Dalian’s investment promotion was very effective and has always been far stronger than Qingdao. This is one of the reasons why Dalian’s development is stronger than Qingdao. After 2000, Qingdao placed investment promotion in a prominent position in city management. In the past three years, investment promotion has achieved explosive growth, significantly surpassing Dalian.