Constructed loading bridges and fortifications with built-in cannons, and set up mining camps on the northern coast of today's Dalian Gulf, making it a small town. After the Russina Empire occupied the region, it was called Dalny (Qing Niwa). Dalian took its present name in 1899. 

早在6000年前，我們的祖先就開發(fā)了大連地區(qū)。秦漢時期，大連地區(qū)屬遼東郡轄區(qū)。唐朝初期，大連地區(qū)屬安東都護府積利州的轄區(qū)。遼代時大連地區(qū)屬東京通遼陽府的轄區(qū)。大連地區(qū)在魏晉時稱三山，唐朝時稱三山浦，明清時稱三山?？?、青泥洼口。十九世紀八十年代，清朝于今大連灣岸建海港棧橋、筑炮臺、設水雷營，一時成為小鎮(zhèn)。沙俄侵占后，稱青泥洼。1899年始稱大連市。

During the periods of the first and second Opium Wars, the British armed forces carried on their invasion to the Dalian region. As the main battlefields of both the first Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, Dalian was plunged into two big wars in its modern history and for half a century, it was a colony of Russia and Japan with Japan's reigning for 40 years. In August 1945, owing to the victory of antifascist war, Dalian was liberated and ended the colonial ruling. 

第一、二次鴉片戰(zhàn)爭期間，英軍對大連地區(qū)進行了侵擾。作為甲午戰(zhàn)爭和日俄戰(zhàn)爭的主要戰(zhàn)場，大連在近代史上曾遭受兩次大的戰(zhàn)爭浩劫，淪為俄、日殖民地近半個世紀，其中日本的殖民統(tǒng)治達40年。1945年8月，大連從反法西斯戰(zhàn)爭的勝利中獲得解放，結束了殖民統(tǒng)治。 

Dalian was declared one of the first batch of open coastal cities in 1984. In 1999，Dalian held its centennial celebration，and on the occasion of the ceremony, Jiang Zemin, General Secretary of the CPC, wrote an epigraph reading“going through the hardships in the past 100 years, the pearl of Northern China looks even brighter" to praise the city. 

1984年，國務院批準大連為首批沿海開放城市。1999年，大連舉行百年慶典，中共中央總書一記江澤民同志揮筆寫下了“百年風雨洗禮，北方明珠生輝”的題詞，對這座城市給予了充分的贊譽。