Statement from Focus

Over the past two and a half years Focus on Dalian has quietly grown into the most recognizable bi-lingual magazine in Dalian. Over that time there have been plenty of ups and downs and growing pains in our journey, but the support of our readers has been the largest attribute to our achievements, and for that we hand you our most heartfelt gratitude.

Your patience with us over this period is about to pay off, as the Spring of 2010 will bring the dawn of a new era for Dalian and for Focus. Since the beginning of this year, Focus has quietly been undergoing a fundamental transformation. The people of Dalian have spoken, and we have listened, and everything we've learned from the past has been channelled into this new community-minded venture.

We have a formed a new 'super team' to lead us into this new age. This team brings the best from Focus, combined with expat and local talent sourced from all across the peninsula, and one even as far as Shanghai. Together with the amazing support and resourcefulness from our parent company Oriental Vision, there is no task too big or story too deep that we cannot explore with the brightest and best of Dalian.

Our goal is to produce a world class magazine that is anticipated, read and enjoyed every other month by every person in Dalian and beyond, and create a media company that will bring the entire community together with a 'people first' ideal. We will treat our customers like friends, our employees like family, and the Dalian community like our home, working together to make this the best and most exciting city in China to live, now and into the future.

We will focus on providing the very best to support the three pillars of any successful company:
1. Our customers, the readers;
2. Our clients, the advertisers;
3. Our community, Dalian.

Driving our efforts towards these three goals will ensure a quality, informative and interesting magazine for our readers, a useful and valuable advertising vehicle for our clients that brings a return on their investment, and a beneficial value-added commodity to the city we all live in and love. Again, we thank all of you who have supported us during our transition. We are now a team oriented, horizontally structured outfit whose single goal is to improve the lives of both expats and locals in both quality and style.