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Chongqing, referred to as Ba and Yu for short, and also known as Mountain City, River City, Fog Capital, and Bridge Capital, is a municipality directly under the Central Government of the People's Republic of China, a national central city, a megacity, an important national advanced manufacturing center, a financial center in the west, an international comprehensive transportation hub in the west, and an international gateway. hub. The city covers an area of 82,400 square meters and has 38 districts and counties (26 districts, 8 counties, and 4 autonomous counties) under its jurisdiction. As of 2022, the city's permanent population will be 32.1334 million, with an urbanization rate of 70.96%, making it the most populous city in the world.
Chongqing is located in the southwestern part of China and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is the only municipality directly under the central government in the central and western regions of China. It is an important strategic fulcrum for the development of the western region, an important link between the "Belt and Road" and the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and an open inland highland. Chongqing is a famous national historical and cultural city in China, with a recorded history of more than 3,000 years and the birthplace of Bashu culture. Because the Jialing River was called "Yu River" in ancient times, Chongqing is also called "Yu" for short. In the first year of Chongning in the Northern Song Dynasty (1102), Yuzhou was changed to Gongzhou. In the first month of the 16th year of Chunxi (1189) in the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Dun, the son of Emperor Xiaozong, was granted the title of King Gong. In February, he became Emperor Guangzong.
In 1891, Chongqing became the first inland treaty port in China to open to the outside world. In 1929, Chongqing was officially established as a city. During the Anti-Japanese War, the national government designated Chongqing as the wartime capital and permanent companion capital. Chongqing, together with Washington, London, and Moscow, was listed as the four major anti-fascist command centers in the world, making great contributions to the Allied camp. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chongqing was a municipality directly under the Central Government, the seat of the Southwest Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Southwest Military and Political Commission, and the political, economic and cultural center of Southwest China. In 1983, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council approved it as the country's first pilot city for comprehensive reform of the economic system, and implemented a separate plan. On March 14, 1997, due to the needs of the Three Gorges Project, the Fifth Session of the Eighth National People's Congress approved the resumption of the establishment of Chongqing Municipality, and it was officially listed on June 18.
Chongqing City spans the transition zone between the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River between latitude 28 degrees 10'-32 degrees 13' and longitude 105 degrees 11'-110 degrees 11' east. It is located in the southwest of inland China and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. , Chongqing is connected to Hubei in the east, Hunan in the southeast, Guizhou in the south, Sichuan in the west, and Shaanxi in the north. Chongqing is the largest municipality directly under the central government in China. It is a group city integrating large cities, large rural areas, large mountainous areas, and large reservoir areas. The built-up area of the main urban area is 877.78 square kilometers.
The automobile and motorcycle industry, electronic information industry, equipment manufacturing industry, pharmaceutical and chemical industry, material industry, energy industry, and consumer goods industry are the pillar industries of Chongqing. Chongqing is the world's largest production base for notebook computers. The Western New Land-Sea Corridor, with Chongqing as its operating center, has covered 338 ports in 113 countries and regions. Liangjiang New Area, located north of the Jialing River and the Yangtze River in the main urban area of Chongqing, is a national-level new area (the third national-level new area after Shanghai Pudong and Tianjin Binhai), an important base for advanced manufacturing and modern service industries.
Source: Wikipedia
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