Dalian, located at the southern tip of Liaodong Peninsula in Liaoning Province, is the import and export gateway of the three northeastern provinces and eastern Inner Mongolia, and also the hub connecting land and water transportation in North China, Central China and East China.

Lushun is located at the southernmost tip of Liaodong Peninsula, bordering the Yellow Sea in the east, Bohai Bay in the west, Shandong Peninsula across the sea in the south and Dalian and Northeast China in the north, with a total area of 506 square kilometers and a population of 2 1.3 million, including nearly 80,000 urban residents.