Introduction of Chongqing

Chongqing is the fourth municipality city in china under the center government after Beijing ( 北京 ), shanghai ( 上海 ), tianjing( 天津 ). Compared with the three old municipality cities, Chongqing is the largest industrial and commercial center in the southwest, and provides a land water communications port on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River . With an area of 82.400 square kilometers (31,800 square miles), Chongqing shares borders with the provinces of hubei( 湖北 ), sichuan( 四川 ), shangxi( 陕西 ), guizhou( 贵州 ). It has 40 districts, cities and counties under its jurisdiction, and population of 30.2 million. Besides the han( 汉 ) the main majority, numerous ethic groups reside in Chongqing including Tibetan, miao( 苗 ), and others, yi( 彝 ) and tujia( 土家 ).
The urban area of Chongqing is located on the tip of a spur of the huaying( 华蓥 ) mountain, slanting from west to east. Chongqing is surrounded by mountains on all sides and by jialing( 嘉陵 ) and Yangtze rivers on the three sides. Therefore, it is called ‘mountain city'.
Today, Chongqing is a modern city and a new municipality in the southwest in china. Absolutely, within its borders encompassed a wealth of water reserves, mineral resources, dense forests, and abundant flora and fauna, Chongqing is an important land water port and industry city. It gets a brilliant future.
Chongqing features convenient water, land and air transport facilities. There are more than 50 airlines flying to Nagoya , Singapore , Bangkok , Hong Kong, Beijing , shanghai, Lhasa and other places. It is a comprehensive transportation center and the meeting place of the Chengdu ( Chengdu- chongqing ), the xiangyu (xianfan- chongqing ) and yuhuai ( Chongqing --huaihua) railroads. The renowned three gorges, which is one of the natural wonders of the world, are just 20 hours sailing away, so chongqing is the start or end point for most Yangtze river cruises. There are more than 100 houseboats suitable for both foreign and home tourists and over 80 star-class hotels.
Since its discovered about 3,000 years ago and before having its present name 800 years ago, Chongqing was originally named as jiangzhou( 江洲 ), yuzhou( 渝洲 ) and chuzhou( 楚洲 ). Since the qing dynasty (221bc-206bc), many dynasties have set up administrative institutions that have endowed the city with brilliant culture. Surrounding the ‘golden river'---the Yangtze river, Chongqing symbolizes Yangtze river civilizations and is the cradle of bayu( 巴渝 ) culture. As an inland port, Chongqing was opened to foreign trade in 1890 and played a key role in the economy of the southwest region. During World War II, it was the provisional capital of china (1938-1945).t the Japanese bombed the city heavily and only the long foggy winters saved the city from worse damage. Chongqing was known to most of the world as a heavily bombed yet brave city. Many places of interest in Chongqing are on its wartime fight and the revolution led by the communist part leaders. Chongqing attracts various visitors from home and abroad for its culture heritage and other tourist attractions. It's the starting point for the three gorges with the cruise vessel on which explores the stunning. Dazu rock carvings, valuable works of art carved during the 9 th century, the grand Buddhist Mountain and Emei Mountain are popular attractions in Chongqing . Ancient ci qi kou walking street lures tourists to linger in its streets to buy handicraft souvenirs.As a comprehensive municipality directly under the central government in the west of china, Chongqing held the chances of the construction of the three gorges dam project, the great development of the western china and has been making the efforts extending the advantages and potential events. Chongqing is a super city situated at the heart of the economic belt on the upper of the Yangtze River . Combining the eastern with the western china, absolutely, the city is the key region. Therefore, Chongqing has the advantage of the geographic position. Chongqing is used to be one of china's old industrial bases and now the city is vigorously developing car and motorcycle making, chemicals and medicine, construction and building materials, foodstuffs, and tourism. Chongqing is a comprehensive industrial city with a long history, conclusively, having more than ten thousand independent accounting industrial enterprises with 840,000 employees and a total capital fund of 201, 3 billion yuan. Chongqing city boasts the largest aluminum processing working, 382 car- and motorcycle making enterprises above designates size. Its output of motorcycle making up one third of the total national output, and its export of motorcycle is more than half of the national figure. Chongqing has become one of the ten major bases for export of mechanical and electrical products. Chongqing is the largest hub of postal and telecommunications on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and in southwest china. The city is the control center for postal and telecommunication services in southwest china. A number of new postal services have been offered, including direct sending and delivery of business parcels, express mail and mail exchanges between china and other countries. Chongqing city has a large concentration of professional in the fields of science, technology and education. The city boasts more than 1,000 institutions of scientific research, 29 universities and colleges, and more than 600,000 scientific and technological workers.

Chongqing is a hot city, also a popular city. The infrastructure construction is going on large scale, projects of biological protection and treatment of pollution are under way, and industries in the old industrial base are in the process of modernization and upgrading. Chongqing is a large potential market.