Located at the Liaodong Peninsula in northeast China, Dalian borders the Yellow Sea in the east, and the Bohai Sea in the west. Dalian has a total area of 13,237 square kilometers and a population of 5.58 million. Dalian's coastline stretches 1,906 kilometers, makeing up 73 percent of the total coastline of Liaoning Province.

Dalian is a famous seaside tourism city and a summer resort thanks to its islets scattered all over like stars, picturesque scenery, pleasant climate, beautiful buildings in the city proper, and fascinating night scenes.

Combined with the city's many parks and green hills, wide thoroughfares and army of street cleaners, make Dalian a more pleasant city to visit and live in than most Chinese cities of comparable size.