中国城市介绍---大连(2)
During the periods of the first and second Opium Wars，the British armed forces carried on their invasion to the Dalian region. As the main battlefields of both the first Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, Dalian was plunged into two big wars in its modern history and for half a century，it was a colony of Russia and Japan with Japan's reigning for 40 years. In August 1945，owing to the victory of antifascist war, Dalian was liberated and ended the colonial ruling.
第一、二次鸦片战争期间，英军对大连地区进行了侵扰。作为甲午战争和日俄战争的主要战场，大连在近代史上曾遭受两次大的战争浩劫，沦为俄、日殖民地近半个世纪，其中日本的殖民统治达40年。1945年8月，大连从反法西斯战争的胜利中获得解放，结束了殖民统治。
Dalian was declared one of the first batch of open coastal cities in 1984. In 1999，Dalian held its centennial celebration，and on the occasion of the ceremony，Jiang Zemin，General Secretary of the CPC，wrote an epigraph reading“going through the hardships in the past 100 years，the pearl of Northern China looks even brighter" to praise the city.
1984年，国务院批准大连为首批沿海开放城市。1999年，大连举行百年庆典，中共中央总书一记江泽民同志挥笔写下了“百年风雨洗礼，北方明珠生辉”的题词，对这座城市给予了充分的赞誉。
Dalian has its world-famous super natural port，by which the city develops itself. Located in the central position of the Northeast Asia economic cycle，Dalian is the gateway to Beijing and Tianjin，as well as a window open to Northeast China. In the nation's plan to promote old industrial bases such as that of the northeast，the central government of the country has pointed out explicitly that Dalian must be built into an international shipping center of the Northeast Asia.
大连拥有闻名世界的天然良港，以港兴市，是京津的门户，东北的窗口，在东北亚经济圈中居于中心位置。中央政府在关于振兴东北等老工业基地的计划中明确指出，要将大连建设成为东北亚国际航运中心。
and so on.
大连拥有得天独厚的气候条件和自然风光，是闻名国内外的旅游避暑胜地。城市建设上的不断投人，使大连的城市环境和城市功能得到大幅度的改善和提高，先后赢得“全球环境500佳城市奖”、“世界人居奖”等殊荣。
Dalian is also one of the cities that developed their urban information and information industries the earliest. All the exponents of urban information occupy the first among the cities of the country，and its information industries has become its mainstay industry，with its total output value of its electronic information product manufacturing industry occupying about 60% in the northeast area of China.
大连也是中国最早发展城市信息化和信息产业的城市之一，城市信息化各类指数均居于全国城市前列，信息产业已经成为城市的支柱产业，电子信息产品制造
业总产值占东北地区的60%左右。
