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The 2009 Summer Davos will be in Dalian, again, having had it's inaugural meeting in the city in 2007 and moving to Tianjin in 2008. Xinhua hint it will be in Dalian in the future. Is China's 'New Champion' (the sub title of the meeting) Dalian?

A nice intro to Dalian in general and finding work in 2nd Tier cities in particular. Have a niche and exploit it, 2nd tier cities are wanting.

Loose quote: "If you have skills in IT, business, communications, or something remotely related, you just may be qualified to join the ranks of former English teachers now gainfully employed in real jobs."

A boy in China's northeast city of Dalian has shocked his mother after she discovered he earned 100 yuan (US$13) for being a henchman to a rich classmate.

Asked why his classmate would want to hire an entourage, the boy was quoted as saying his schoolmate wanted to imitate "big bosses" such as his father or actors on television.

Watch out Pamplona, Dalian might be copying your controversial sport. Recently a bull escaped a local slaughterhouse and made its way to the city centre where it squared off against the city's traffic and pedestrians.

Before being rendered unconscious it was heard to have said that "Dalian is a clean and beautiful city".

Video blog #3 from my vblog collection. For this entry I decided to turn my camera on those that know the most about life - kids, roughly five hundred of them to be non-exact. My primary school recently invited me to accompany them on a field trip to a park in downtown Dalian. For 50% of the journey I had no idea what we were going to be doing and the other bit was mostly just saying

If you are (or know someone who is) a westerner living in Dalian, China, and you think that you would be interested in becoming a member of the cast, please respond to with a quick bio...

Thirty years ago, on December 18-22, the landmark third plenary session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing, setting a new direction for the country – reform and opening up. Great changes have taken place since then, from household life to the national strength, from the political field to the economic, sports, cultural, and social fields.

The man The Guardian describes as one of the worst players ever to appear for Manchester United has left the English giant and returned to his Chinese club Dalian Shide.

Dalian continues to attract high tech industries with a new announcement that Intel will be further investing 2.5 billion USD into facilities in the Liaoning port city.