The city of Dalian has been building itself into an international shipping center, international logistics center, and a regional finance center.
The city of Dalian, in Northeast China, has become a cargo center with connections across China and overseas, as well as a logistics distribution center and has plans to cast its logistics nets far and wide to connect the globe.
Annual growth of the amount of loans in the city of Dalian over the past four years has reached 122.8 billion yuan ($19.7 billion), an annual increase of 22.2 percent on average.
Dalian's high-tech industry is gathering steam, reaching an annual production of 650 million yuan ($104 billion).
As the host city for the annual national fair in software and information services, Dalian has developed by leaps and bounds in this industry in the past 10 years.
China's national fair on software and information services has greatly fueled economic growth in the past 10 years, its organizing committee said.
When Dalian Greenland Center, a skyscraper being built in Dalian, Liaoning province, is completed in 2016, it will become the tallest building in Northeast China and the fourth tallest in the world.