Dalian has its world-famous super natural port，by which the city develops itself. Located in the central position of the Northeast Asia economiccycle，Dalian is the gateway to Beijing and Tianjin，as well as a window open to Northeast China. In the nation's plan to promote old industrial bases such as that of the northeast，the central government of the country has pointed out explicitly that Dalian must be built into an international shipping center of the Northeast Asia. 

大連擁有聞名世界的天然良港，以港興市，是京津的門戶，東北的窗口，在東北亞經濟圈中居于中心位置。中央政府在關于振興東北等老工業(yè)基地的計劃中明確指出，要將大連建設成為東北亞國際航運中心。

With its advantaged climatic conditions and natural scenery，Dalian is well-known both at home and abroad for its summer resort. The unceasing investment in the urban construction has led to a great improvement and enhancement in its urban environment and city function. Owing to all this，Dalian has successively won “Global Top 500 in Environment" and the“Habitant of Scroll of Homour Award”and so on. 

大連擁有得天獨厚的氣候條件和自然風光，是聞名國內外的旅游避暑勝地。城市建設上的不斷投人，使大連的城市環(huán)境和城市功能得到大幅度的改善和提高，先后贏得“全球環(huán)境500佳城市獎”、“世界人居獎”等殊榮。 

Dalian is also one of the cities that developed their urban informationization and information industries the earliest. All the exponents of urban informationization occupy the first among the cities of the country，and its information industries has become its mainstay industry，with its total output value of its electronic information product manufacturing industry occupying about 60% in the northeast area of China. 

大連也是中國最早發(fā)展城市信息化和信息產業(yè)的城市之一，城市信息化各類指數均居于全國城市前列，信息產業(yè)已經成為城市的支柱產業(yè)，電子信息產品制造業(yè)總產值占東北地區(qū)的60%左右。