关外第一市——葫芦岛市,地处辽宁省西南部,东与锦州市接壤,南濒渤海,西和河北省秦皇岛市毗邻,北同朝阳市相连,是以石油化工为主体,冶金机械、造船、建材、煤炭等门类齐全的新兴工业城市。葫芦岛三面临海,一面与陆地相接,形似一个葫芦,故名葫芦岛。葫芦岛有着美丽的传说,说它是一个宝葫芦变的,因此,人们称葫芦岛为宝岛。 The first city off the coast - Huludao City, located in the southwest of Liaoning Province, bordering Jinzhou City in the east, south of the Bohai Sea, west and Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, adjacent to the north with the Chaoyang City, is the main petrochemical, metallurgical machinery , Shipbuilding, building materials, coal and other new categories of emerging industrial cities. Huludao sea three sides, while the land phase, shaped like a gourd, named Huludao. Huludao has a beautiful legend that it is a treasure gourd changed, therefore, people call Huludao Island.