Dalian, also known as Bincheng, was formerly known as Darini and Qingniwa. Located at the southern tip of Liaodong Peninsula, on the coast of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, it is 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.
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 severe cold in winter and no intense heat in summer. Known as "the window to the northeast", "the pearl of the north" and "the 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.