Dalian, which covers 13% of the nation’s territory and accounts for 12.6% of the nation’s population, is the important port and trading, industrial, touring city in north China and even in northeast Asia. Dalian is one of the first batches of coastal open cities which were approved by the State Council in 1984.

National Economy & Social Development in Dalian

In 2004, GDP was increased by 16.2% and reached RMB 196.18 billion. Fixed capital investment of the whole society was increased by 41.3% and amounted to RMB 71.62 billion. The total export & import volume in foreign trade achieved RMB 19.2 billion and was increased by 22.3%, and among them, export which is independent in management reached RMB 10.15 billion and was increased by 22.5%; direct investment which is made use of foreign capital reached RMB 2.2 billion, and it was 1.1 times of the previous year’s. Industry of large scale achieved sales volume RMB 199.72 billion and was increased by 30.3%.

Secondary industry achieved an annual increase of RMB 98.33 billion and has increased by 19.9%. At the same time, the proportion of secondary industry in three industrial sectors has increased from 47.9% of previous year to this year’s 49.8%. And it has achieved an industrial increase of RMB 82 billion and has increased by 17.6%. The industry of large scale has increased by 25.4%, topped RMB 52.41 billion. Petrochemical industry, component manufacturing industry, and electronic information industry act as the leading forces in industrial growth. It is estimated that the increase in output of these three industrial sectors will be above 30%.

Distribution of Industry & Program of Development

With more than 50 years’ development, Dalian has established an industrial system, that is, mechanism, petrol processing, electronic industry act as the leading forces, while other traditional industries develop with complete categories. Petrochemical, manufacturing, electronic information industry, above-mentioned three pillar industries account for 73% of large-scale industry.

→ Electronic information industry base is the only production base in Liaoning Province. Assembly industrial output ranked the second place of four cities in the northeast of China in 2003. Dalian New Shipbuilding Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. is the largest shipyard in China. Rolling stock plant produces diesel locomotive and the output accounts for 50% of national production. Bearing product occupies one-third of the domestic yield. Both industrial refrigerant equipments, air conditions and combined lathes, automatic production lines rank first in China. Forklift with a tonnage from 10 to 45 occupies 44% of the national output. Such mechanical equipment as marine diesel engine and diesel locomotive engine situate in the front row of the same national trade or business.

→ The production ability and quality of petrochemical products, oceangoing shipping, diesel locomotive, port mechanism rank the leading place in China.

→ It was estimated that in year 2004, industrial increase has reached RMB 82 billion, and accounted for 43.2% of the city’s GDP. Dalian industrial scale ranks first in main cities of the northeast of China, and it is also one of the cities where large numbers of industrial companies come together. Industrial increase account for one-third, and export delivery amount account for three-fifth of the whole province.

→ In order to accelerate the development of new type industrial system, the government put emphasis on developing high-technology and rising industry as forerunners, building petrochemical industry, electronic information industry, equipment manufacturing, shipbuilding as four supports, further processing on new type material, clothing, furniture, beverage and agricultural products as advanced industries.

Dalian Economic and Technological Development Zone
Characteristic: radiate and promote the economy in the northeast of China
Main industrial structure: electronic information, biological medicine, new type material, photoelectrical unification, energy saving and environmental protection industries

Dalian Economic and Technological Development Zone was established in 1984, and it was the first national economic and technological development zone approved by the State Council. Development zone is located at the center of economic circle of Bohai Ring. And after 18 years’ development, it has radiated, promoted and demonstrated the development in north China.
As one of the ten largest development areas in China, Dalian Economic and Technological Development Zone has a planned area of 329 square meters, and has a population of 250 thousand. Up till now, it has built an area of 50 square meters. As the base of high-tech and modernized industry, Dalian Economic and Technological Development Zone is a bridge that links China with the world economy and gets the reputation of “No. 1 Development Zone in China”. Dalian Development Zone faces Korea and Japan which are the most advanced economic areas in Asia. At the same time, it is not only the window through which developed countries in Asia can get a better knowledge of Dalian, but also the door through which foreign investors could enter China.

Main Parks: Mold Industrial Park
Mold Industrial Park has a planned area of 1.93 square meters, and it contains the specialized production and auxiliary services in the fields of research, manufacture, training, technological information and modernized logistics, real estate management.

Famous companies:
Canon, Toshiba, Sanyo，Mitsui，Mitsubish，Pfizer，TOTAL，Simens ,Daewoo，Pohang，LG，Fuji，Huanyu-Telecom，GONA，Sunscape Bio-tech

Dalian Software Park
Characteristic: “State High-Tech Torch-Plan for Software Industry”
Main Industrial Structure: Software development, BPO, Network Telecom, IT Education, Information Service, Software Technology Research and Development

In order to promote information development, Dalian municipal government planned to establish a specialized software park, “Dalian Software Park”. At the same time, the software park is the core project of “Model City for Internationalization of the software industry”. Dalian Software Park enjoys many favorable conditions, such as preferential policy, numerous pools of talented IT personnel, ample funding, an active market and it provides good development space for software companies from home and abroad. The park forms the preliminary industrial structure of Software development, BPO, Network Telecom, IT Education, Information Service, Software Technology Research and Development. In 2003, Dalian Software Park achieved income from software sales of RMB 2.4 billion, export sales of 80 million USD, and the export volume is among the best of the successful candidates. Nowadays, Dalian Software Park has successfully attracted more than 180 software companies, one-third of which are foreign invested, and also 16 Global 500 corporations.

Famous companies:
IBM, GE, Accenture， SAP, Panasonic, Nokia, Sony--- multinational companies;
CSK, Omron, Alpine，FTS, Furuno---Japanese invested companies;
Neusoft，CS&S，Sunyard---famous domestic software companies;
Hi-think，Hisoft---domestic software export companies

Dalian Jinzhou Economic Development Zone & Industrial Zone
Characteristic: Industrial New Zone
Main Industrial Structure: Machinery Manufacture, Electronic Information, Light Industrial Food, Fine Chemical Industry, Biological Medicine, New-fashioned Material, Costume& Adornment.

Dalian Jinzhou Economic Development Zone is a municipal grade development zone, approved by Dalian Municipal Government in June 1992. It is situated in the north of Dalian, the west of Jinzhou with a planned area of 4.9 square meters. In ten years, development area has successfully attracted foreign investors from more than twenty countries or regions, such as Japan, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Russia, USA, Holland, Hongkong, Taiwan. Nowadays, there are more than 160 enterprises and the total investment quantum is RMB 56 billion. In 2003, GDP reached RMB 2.713 billion, tax payment reaches RMB 0.206 billion, export output reaches USD 0.314 billion.
The preliminary planning of Jinzhou Economic Development Zone is to establish eight functional & service areas, that is Machinery Manufacture, Electronic Information, Light Industrial Food, Fine Chemical Industry, Biological Medicine, New-fashioned Material, Costume& Adornment.

Machinery Manufacture
Import high-tech machinery equipment, precision bearing, high-tech numerical controlled machine tool, and produce automobile parts and different moulds, etc.

Electronic Information
Import advanced technology and equipment. Develop new products, electronic industry, computer, communication equipment, numerical correspondence, multimedia system, IC, electronic measuring apparatus, electronic component, etc.

Light Industrial Food
Develop high-tech light industrial food. Develop the store, freshness, dry, new technology and new equipment of characteristic food, convenience food, green food, high-level nutriment, agricultural product, aquatic product, etc.

Fine Chemical Industry
New chemical products, such as high-tech chemical product, food additive, fodder additive, preparation of water treatment, adhesive, leather fibre, etc.

Biological Medicine
Items, like modern biological medicine, medical material, biological engineering, medicine development, industrial experiment, technology alteration, etc.

New-fashioned Material
Develop building and decorative materials of advanced, light-duty, high-intensity and heat preservation.

Costume & Adornment
Develop international costume brand, and set up productive base of costume subsidiary material, and import articles of fine quality.

The overall goal of Jinzhou Economic Development Zone is to become the link between Dalian and other three main cities in north China, act as the industrial passage of Shenyang-Dalian expressway, and eventually become the most active export-oriented economic area.

Main industrial parks:
Jinzhou Development Area-Automotive Electronics Park
Jinzhou Development Area-Automotive Electronics Park was established for the purpose of adjusting industrial structure and product structure, promoting company’s technological content. It was planned to be the electronic industry and IT industry area, and attracted investors from software development, network information, semiconductor and electronics processing. The purpose of establishing this park is to become the important IT and Software industry bases in Dalian as well as in northeast China. Now, there are many famous companies in the park, eg.: AODL， ALPS， Dalian Daxian.

Lushun Economic Development Zone
Characteristic: Golden Waterway
Main industrial Structure: processing manufacture as the pillar industry, logistic industry as support prop, tourism and education as two main sectors.

Founded on June 8, 1992 by approval of Dalian Municipal Government, Lushun Economic Development Zone is a general development zone under administration at the provincial level. Situated at the southwest tip of Liaodong Peninsula, Lushun Economic Development Zone is also known as the “golden waterway”.
In the period of the Tenth Five-Year Plan, Lushun Economic Development Zone will attach importance to the "three zones and one area", i. e. the industrial zone, the tourism and holiday zone, the harbor zone and the commercial trade area, primarily meeting the plan requirement for the main city proper.

Industrial zone:
The planned land area is 134.47 has accounting for 11.12% of the total land area. Based on the Industrial Park for medium- or small-scale businesses, the Development Park for Returned Students and Daxian Industrial Park, it is planned to develop towards large scale, high technology and export. The main purpose is to establish industrial enterprises with low energy consumption, high technology and high added value and develop technically advanced high-grade products for export, forming an export-oriented high technical industrial zone. Meanwhile, attentions are also given to conventional industrial projects with low energy consumption and low pollution to promote the rapid development of the local economy. The key point of development is such industrial projects as precision machines, electronics, communication facilities, foodstuffs, garment and artwares for tourists.

Tourism and holiday zone:
The planned land area is 130.8 has accounting for 10.82% of the total land area. The tourism and holiday zone will firstly develop large tourism projects such as the Sunshine Homeland and the World Peace Park covering housing for aged people, health preservation, relaxation, fitness keeping, catering and entertainment. Excellent weather and geographic conditions such as the natural bathing beach will be utilized for development of the tourism projects on the sea. Importance will be attached to the creativity, nationality and modernity, with consideration of the modern features of seeking for knowledge, newness and amusement.

Harbor zone:
The planned land area is 185 has accounting for 15.3% of the total land area. The annual handling capacity of the harbor can be up to 39.65 million tons with the passenger volume of one million person-times. Yangtouwa Harbor is designed to be an open harbor mainly for handling general cargoes and passenger/vehicle ferry. Along with the construction of Yantai-Dalian Train Ferry project and the ten-thousand-tonnage general wharf project, a large traffic system centered on the ferry wharf with two wings of Yangtouwa Harbor and Ertoujuan Deep-water Wharf will be established, becoming the important material flow center in the region encircling Bohai Sea.

Commerce and trade area:
It takes Shunda Road as its center with rational layout of financial, commercial trade, information and other public service facilities and will be expanded to both sides appropriately.