Dalian hi-tech park bids to be China's 'Silicon Valley'

With an annual 30 percent increase across a raft of economic indicators over recent years, the growth of the Dalian's Hi-tech Industrial Park has seen it catapulted to the number one slot in the city. The growth of the State-level facility continued unabated in the first half of the year, making it one of the best performing sites in northeast China's Liaoning province.

As the market leader in Dalian's highly-competitive software and service outsourcing industry, the park has now established nine dedicated software zones within the Lushun South Road Software Industrial Belt. It has also expanded nationally and internationally over the last years, with associate facilities in Tianjin, Chengdu, Suzhou, Wuhan and Tokyo.

Currently the park employs in excess of 60,000 staff and is home to 630 companies. Some 11 of these businesses now employ more than 1,000 people each.