Seafood, fruits and handicrafts of Dalian are well-known both at home and abroad, and tourists like to buy local products while enjoying the beautiful scenery. The main local products in Dalian mainly include three types: sea cucumbers, seaweed, abalone, prawns, scallops, Neptunea cumingi and other seafood products; craft products such as glasswork, and sea-shell carving products; and finally yellow peaches and other delicious fruits.

With an ideal location, Dalian is an agriculture belt surrounded by mountains, seas and plains. Dalian is rich in agricultural resources with eight kinds of famous crops, including paddy rice, fruits and peanuts. Fruit plays a very important role here, and Dalian is honored as the “Hometown of Apples” for its rich variety. Meanwhile, cherries, peaches, pears and grapes are also famous here. There are many Quercus forests in the northern mountainous area, which is very suitable for sericulture. Tussah silkworm production takes the second place in Liaoning. There are also many varieties of animal husbandry, such as Jinzhou horses, Fuzhou cattle, Xinjin pigs, Zhuanghe chicken, Zhuanghe cashmere goats and Dalian milk goats.

Dalian is famous for its rich seafood resources, and it is one of the most important aquaculture bases in China. Dalian has approximately 280 kinds of fish in the sea (yellow croaker, hairtail, cuttlefish, cobbler fish and greenling), more than 400 marine invertebrates (prawn, Acetes, jellyfish, conch, crab and oyster) and over 150 kinds of algae (kelp, sea mustard, seaweed and agar weed). Dalian is also one of the major sea salt producing areas due to its rich salt resources.

Dalian is rich in plant resources, wild animals and mineral resources. There are over 20 varieties of mineral products and more than 500 mineral occurrences. Dalian has the biggest diamond mine in China.

Dalian is a small habitat for birds in China with the most number of species. There are 314 varieties of birds here, with 12 species under first-grade state protection. There are 45 kinds of mammals and 11 kinds of national second-class protected animals, among which 78 species are under wild animal national priority protection.

Dalian is famous for apple, grape, peach and strawberry production. There are approximately 4,850 varieties of invertebrates and 765 kinds of wild vertebrates. Among them, there are 132 varieties of invertebrates and 442 wild vertebrates.