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| Natural and Geographic Situation |
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| [Geographic Situation] |
| On the east coast of Eurasia and the southern
tip of Liaodong peninsular in northeast China, Dalian stretches from
120°58' to 123°31' east longitude and 38°43' to 40°10'
north latitude, with the Yellow Sea on the east, Bohai Sea on the
west, facing the Shandong peninsular across the sea on the south and
backed up by the vast Northeast Plain on the north. Dalian is the
marine gateway of northeast China, North China, |
East China and the whole world. It is also
an important port, and a trade, industry and tourism city.
Dalian covers an area of 12574 square kilometers, among which 2415
square kilometers of area is the old city. This area abounds with
mountains and hills, while plains and lowlands are rarely seen. The
terrain, high and broad on the north, low and narrow on the south,
tilts to the Yellow Sea on the southeast and the Bohai Sea on the
northwest from the center. The region which faces the Yellow Sea is
long and gentle. The Qianshan Mountain range of Chang Baishan Mountain
system passes through the whole region from north to south. Mountain
regions and long eroded foothills are widely dispersed within the
region. Plains and lowlands are only interspersed near the confluence
and in some valleys. Kast topography and sea erosion topography are
everywhere. |
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| [Climate] |
| Dalian lies in the warm temperate zone
of the North Hemisphere, with maritime feature of warm temperate continental
monsoon climate. Thus, its four seasons are distinct with neither
extremely cold weather in winter nor extremely hot weather in summer.
The average temperature of the year is 10.5°C, the rainfall of
the year is 550 to 950 millimeters and the whole year sunshine is
2500 to 2800 hours. |
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| [Water Resources] |
| There are mainly two large river systems,
the Yellow Sea system and the Bohai Sea system. The large rivers which
flow into the Yellow Sea are Biliu River, Yingna River, Zhuanghe River,
Xiezi River, Dasha River, Dengsha River, Qingshui River, and Malan
River, etc. while the main rivers which flow into the Bohai Sea are
Fuzhou River, Li Guancun River, San Shilipu River. Among them, the
largest one is Biliu River, the source river of cross-valley water
diversion. In addition, there are more than 200 small rivers. The
total amount of fresh water resource is 3.786 billion cubic meters,
among which 3.42 billion cubic meters of water is ground water, 88.4
million cubic meters of water is underground water and 58 million
cubic meters of water is shared by them both. |
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| [Administrative
Divisions] |
| Dalian has 3 county-level cities (Wa Fangdian
city, Pu Landian city and Zhuanghe city), 1 county (Changhai county)
and 6 districts (Zhongshan district, Xigang district, Sha Hekou district,
Gan Jingzi district, Lu Shunkou district and Jinzhou district). In
addition, there are 4 state-level leading areas for opening up (the
Development Zone, the Free Trade Zone, the Hi-Tech Industrial Zone
and the Golden Pebble Beach National Holiday Resort.) |
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