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9 unusual facts about Dalian


Fusu-class replenishment ship

On May 1, 1993, the uncompleted former Soviet naval ship was towed to Dalian shipyard from Ukrainian Kherson shipyard.

Harry Triguboff

He was born in Dalian (Darien at the time), China on 3 March 1933, the son of Russian Jews who fled to northeastern China after the rise of Lenin.

James Lee Guy

He took off that weekend and excitedly traveled to Dalian to shoot “The Korean War.”

John Rossant

PublicisLive is also responsible for the various spin-off regional editions of the WEF, such as in the Middle East, Dalian in China and in South America.

Scott J. Freidheim

Since 2006, Freidheim has participated in many panels at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland as well as at the inaugural New Champions Meeting in Dalian, China and was a member of the WEF's Global Agenda Council.

Sincere Department Store

Since 1997, Sincere's retailing arm is mostly in Hong Kong with four locations in Hong Kong (Central: Li Po Chun Chambers;Causeway Bay: Percival Street) and Kowloon (Mong Kok: Grand Century Place; Mong Kok: Kingwah Centre; Sham Shui Po: Dragon Centre;Yau Tong: Domain(Yau Tong); and Tsuen Wan: Citywalk 2); there are Chinese location, including Dalian.

Transport in Fukuoka-Kitakyushu

Pukwan Ferry, Camelia Line, and high speed ferry Beetle (JR Kyushu), Kobee operate out of both Hakata and Shimonseki, there are also ferry services to Shanghai and Dalian in China, Busan, Ulsan in Korea.

Yok Mu-ming

The delegations visited Beijing, Dalian, Guangzhou and Nanjing in a tour called "Journey of the Chinese Nation".

Yuan Chenye

Yuan Chenye, also known as Chen-Ye Yuan (袁晨野; Dalian, 1967) is a Chinese operatic baritone.


Air China

Some international routes operate from Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Dubai, Hangzhou, Kunming and Xiamen.

Battle of Nanshan

It took place on 25 May 1904 across a two-mile wide defense line across the narrowest part of the Liáodōng Peninsula, covering the approaches to Port Arthur and on the 116-meter high Nanshan Hill, the present-day Jinzhou District, north of the city center of Dalian, Liaoning, China.

Chengda

Liaoning Chengda, the state-owned company in Dalian, Liaoning, China

China Nepstar

These cities include Shenzhen (from 202 stores as of December 31, 2006 to 311 stores as of December 31, 2007), Dalian (from 127 stores to 174 stores), Guangzhou (from 123 stores to 161 stores), Hangzhou (from 102 stores to 144 stores), Ningbo (from 73 stores to 96 stores), Dongguan (from 75 stores to 94 stores), Suzhou (from 54 stores to 70 stores), Tianjin (from 23 stores to 66 stores), and Shanghai (from 46 stores to 60 stores).

China Railways CRH5

The first train (CRH5-001A) departed from Savigliano port, Italy on December 11, 2006 and arrive at Dalian port on January 28, 2007.

China Telecom

As of 2012, China Telecom has rollout estimated over 1,000,000 access points in over 30,000 buildings and facilities in over 250 major Chinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanning, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Dalian, Kunming, Wuhan, Chongqing and Xi'an.

Dalian People's Culture Club

It was given the name of the Dalian People's Culture Club by Guo Moruo

Dalian Software Park

Dalian has recently become an important center for information technology offshoring and business process outsourcing, similar to Bangalore in India; the city was described in "The World Is Flat" by Thomas Friedman (2007).

Dell International Services

Dell International Services is the support and services division of Dell Inc., the large American computer hardware company, with operations in India (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chandigarh), Europe (Bratislava, Bucharest, Dalian), Latin America (Panama City, Brazil, San Salvador), Africa (Morocco), Canada (Edmonton) and the Philippines, (Quezon City).

Hang Lung Group

Seeing the success of the Shanghai projects, the Group continued to expand its business to others parts of the Mainland such as Shenyang, Jinan, Wuxi, Tianjin, Dalian, and Kunming.

Hang Lung Plaza

Olympia 66, Dalian (大連恒隆廣場, literally Dalian Hang Lung Plaza)

Harbin Bank

It was established in 1997 as Harbin City Commercial Bank, opened its branches in Harbin City only, but changed its name to Harbin Bank in 2007 and has since opened branches in Dalian, Tianjin Shuangyashan and Jixi.

Jeffrey Zheng Yu Guang

He was born in Dalian, Liaoning Province and went to study computer engineering at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada for 3 years.

Jilin City

Jilin Railway Station is on the East-West Changchun-Tumen Railway mainline and provides convenient access to many cities around China, including Beijing, Tianjin, Dalian, Jinan, Hangzhou.

Lüshunkou District

Dalian Jiaotong University (formerly Dalian Railroad University) moved its Software School to the area near the new port, and Dalian University of Foreign Languages and Dalian Medical University relocated their main campuses to the eastern slope of Baiying Mountain, on Lushun South Road.

Matsuda Chiaki

The cruise began at Sasebo and took him to the ports of Osaka, Shimizu, Maizuru, Incheon, Zhenhai, Dalian, Lushun, Weihaiwei and Qingdao.

Ming Xu

Xu Ming (徐明), billionaire entrepreneur, former owner of Dalian Shide F.C.

SS Ural Maru

She was completed in 1929 by the Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyards and was in regularly scheduled service between Kobe and Osaka in Japan and the port of Dairen in the Kwantung Leased Territory on the Asian mainland.

Taiichi Ohno

Born in 1912 in Dalian, China, and a graduate of the Nagoya Technical High School (Japan), he joined the Toyoda family's Toyoda Spinning upon graduation in 1932 during the Great Depression thanks to the relations of his father to Kiichiro Toyoda, the son of Toyota's founding father Sakichi Toyoda.

Thomas Pugel

He was Visiting Professor at the School of International Politics, Economics and Business at Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan, from 1985-1986; in 1983 he was a member of the U.S. Faculty of the National Center for Industrial Science and Technology Management Development at Dalian, Peoples Republic of China; and in 1980 he was a Visiting Scholarat the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Trams in Dalian

In 1945, the Soviet Union Red Army defeated Japanese forces located in Manchuria and occupied Dalian in the last scene of World War II.

Veselinović

Borko Veselinović (born 1986), Serbian football player who currently plays for Dalian Shide in the Chinese Super League

Xu Ming

Xu entered the work force in 1990, working for the Foreign Economic and Trade Commission of Zhuanghe, a county-level city under the administration of Dalian.

He is the founder of the conglomerate Dalian Shide Group, and the former chairman of Dalian Shide F.C., China's top football club in the 2000s.

Only a year later, he quit his stable government job to establish several construction companies, which were awarded contracts for the earthwork projects of Shengli Square in front of the Dalian Railway Station and Xinghaiwan Square, also in Dalian.

Yu Ziqian

At Dalian Shide Yu was trained by former England international goalkeeper Jimmy Rimmer, however before he had a chance to establish himself within the team he was seriously injured in a training session where he received a ruptured spleen and one year out of football.

Zhu Zhengchang

Zhu was born in Chongming County, Shanghai and studied marine engineering at the Wuhan Waterway Engineering College and Dalian Maritime University.


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