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大连市

大连市是中国北部辽宁省的一个大城市，中国计划单列市之一。大连历史悠久，早在6000年前，就有人类在此居住。大连市是世界经济论坛夏季达沃斯的常驻举办城市，辽宁沿海经济带的金融中心、航运物流中心，中国东部沿海重要的经济、贸易、港口、工业、旅游城市。

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Dalian

Dalian is a large city of the northern Liaoning Province, and was developed as part of state-planning. With a long history, it has been inhabited approximately 6,000 years. Dalian is the permanent host city of the World Economic Forum Summer Davos. It serves as not only a financial and logistics center of Liaoning’s coastal economic affairs, but also as an important economic center, port, industry hub, and tourist destination of China’s eastern coast.

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