
综述:My hometown Dalian is a beautiful city. There are more than 200 rivers in Dalian, mainly two major water systems, which flow into the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea respectively.
The larger rivers flowing into the Yellow Sea include Biliu River, Yingna River, Zhuanghe River, Zanzi River, Dasha River, Dengsha River, Qingshui River, etc.
Dalian is located in the warm temperate zone of the northern hemisphere and the East Bank of the Eurasian continent. It belongs to the warm temperate semi humid continental monsoon climate and has the characteristics of marine climate.
There is no severe cold in winter, no intense heat in summer, concentrated rainfall and obvious monsoon. Life here will be comfortable.
我的家乡大连是一个美丽的城市,大连市境内有河流200余条,主要有两大水系,分别注入黄海和渤海。注入黄海的较大河流有碧流河、英那河、庄河、赞子河、大沙河、登沙河、清水河等。
大连市地处北半球的暖温带、亚欧大陆的东岸,属暖温带半湿润大陆性季风气候,兼有海洋性气候特点,冬无严寒,夏无酷暑,降雨集中,季风明显,在这里生活会分舒服。
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I was born in a beautiful city. It is Dalian. I have lived here for twelve years, and I love her. The whole city looks like a huge garden because we can see flowers everywhere.
In spring, the weather is always fine. After a rain, a beautiful rainbow appears in the sky. I like to ride my bike to see the beautiful sight.
In fact, my city is beautiful all around the year. During the summer vacation, I always swim in the blue sea and read the poem on the beach.
I like Dalian. It is as pretty as a wonderland.
我出生在一个美丽的城市,它就是大连。我在这里生活了十二年,我爱它。整个城市就像大花园一样,因为我们到处可以看到花。
春天天气总是宜人的。一场雨后,美丽的彩虹出现在天空中。我喜欢骑车去观赏这美丽的景色。实际上,我的家乡一年四季都很美。暑假期间,我总是到碧蓝色的大海里去游泳,或在海滩上读诗。
我爱大连,它像仙境一样美。
Natural And Geographic Situation [Geographic Situation] On the east coast of Eurasia and the southern tip of Liaodong peninsular in northeast China, Dalian stretches from 120¡ã58' to 123¡ã31' east longitude and 38¡ã43' to 40¡ã10' 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.[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¡ãC, the rainfall of the year is 550 to 950 millimeters and the whole year sunshine is 2500 to 2800 hours.[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. [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.) History Of DalianAs early as 6000 years ago, our ancestors first exploited Dalian region. In Qin and Han period (221B.C.-220A.D.), Dalian region was under the jurisdiction of Liaodong county. In the early period of Tang Dynasty (618-907), Dalian region was under the jurisdiction of Andong Prefecture in Jili state, and in Liao Dynasty (916-1125), it was under the jurisdiction of Dong Jing Tong Liaoyang county. Dalian was named Sanshan in the period of Weijin (220-420), San Shanpu in Tang Dynasty (618-907), Sanshan Seaport in Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and Qing Niwakou in Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). In the 1880¡ˉs, Qing government constructed loading bridges and fortifications with built-in cannons, and set up mine camps in the northern coast of Dalian gulf, making it become a small town. After the invasion and occupation of Russia, the city was called Qing Niwa and was renamed Dalian in 1899.During the 1st and 2nd Opium War, Dalian was invaded and harassed by the British army. As the main battlefield of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and Japanese-Russian War, Dalian suffered great calamity in these two wars in modern history. Consequently, Dalian became Russian and Japanese colony for nearly half a century, meanwhile under the Japanese colonial rule for 40 years. The unconditional surrender of Japan on August of 1945 marks the liberation of Dalian in the anti-fascist war, thus ends 40 years¡ˉ colonial rule over the city. On September of the same year, the Preparatory Committee of Dalian Workers' Union was founded. On October, the northeast bureau of the Communist Party of China appointed Mr. Hanguan secretary of the CPC Dalian Committee, and the CPC Dalian Committee and Dalian municipal government were founded. On July of 1946, the CPC Dalian Committee was reorganized into the CPC L¨1da committee. From 1949 to 1956, the socialist transformation was almost finished. From 1957 to 1966, the all-around socialist construction started. From 1966 to 1976, Dalian experienced the Cultural Revolution. After 1976, Dalian entered the new period of socialist modernization construction. In 1984, Dalian was approved by the State Council to be the coastal open-up city and was designated as the city with separate economic plan in 1985, enjoying provincial level decision-making authority.Overview[Economic Aggregate]:Comprehensive economic strength continued to improve. Preliminary estimation indicated that Dalian¡ˉs GDP in 2008 grew to 385.82 billion yuan, representing a 16.5 percent increase over the previous year calculated at constant prices. Of the total, the added value of primary industry was 28.91 billion yuan, up by 8.1 percent; that of secondary industry 199.39 billion yuan, up by 19.6 percent; tertiary industry 157.52 billion yuan, up by 14.4 percent. The proportion of three industries was 7.5: 51.7:40.8 and the ratios of their contributions to economic growth were 3.6 percent, 58.3 percent and 38.1 percent respectively. If calculated according to the average permanent population, the per capita GDP of Dalian was 63,198 yuan, equivalent to USD 9,099 converted at the average exchange rate of 2008. [Fiscal revenue]:The fiscal revenue kept growing. The general budgetary revenue of local governments totaled 33.91 billion yuan, increasing by 26.5 percent year-on-year. Of which, city level revenue was 15.19 billion yuan, up by 25.3 percent (up by 25.8 percent on comparable basis); district and county level revenue was 18.72 billion yuan, up by 27.5 percent (up by 27.1 percent, on comparable basis). The general budgetary expenditure of local governments was 41 billion yuan, up by 19 percent over the previous year. Expenditures on key livelihood programs were effectively guaranteed, with expenditures on education, agriculture, forestry and fishery, social insurance, employment, and medical care soaring by 35.2 percent, 24.1 percent, 20.6 percent and 36.6 percent respectively. Dalian Municipal State Taxation Bureau organized tax contributions of 24.52 billion yuan, up 21.1 percent; Local Taxation Bureau organized tax contributions of 25.54 billion yuan, up 22.8 percent; tax levied by the customs reached 29.01 billion yuan, up 42 percent. [Price index]:The consumer price index (CPI) rose by 4.4 percent year-on-year, with the growth rate 0.4 percentage points higher. The price indexes of commodities and service items were 5.7 percent and 1.6 percent up respectively (Table 1). Factory gate prices of industrial products increased by 8.08 percent over the previous year, the growth rate up by 4.81 percentage points. Overall purchase price index of raw materials, fuels and power all year around grew by 17.69 percent over the previous year, with the growth rate of 12.33 percentage points higher.
I want to introduce my hometown which is called DaLIan ,a beautiful city near the sea. It is located in the north part of China and the weather there is a bit cold in the winter.DaLIan is a lively city with a plenty of wonderful sightseeings. There will be a large number of people visited there in summer because of the cool weather.There are many interesting places which is worth visiting in DaLian ,such as art gallery,theme park and historical museum.DaLian is also called snack kingdom ,there are a lot of delicious snacks you can find in the historical street.The best thing is that we can go fishing and have a seafood meal in this fantastic city. All in all,DaLian is the most beautiful city in my mind.