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City Info: Chongqing,Sichuan Province
| Chongqing
is called "the Mountain City" because it was built on and surrounded
by steep-sided hills. It is also called "the River Town", because
it stands at the confluence of the Jialing and Yangtze rivers. Chongqing
is south-western China's dynamo, its largest city both in scale and population.
Formerly part of Sichuan Province and now the heavily industrialized core
of Chongqing Municipality - which stretches east from Dazu to the Hubei
border. The city has a long tradition as a place of defiance against hostile powers, despite being ceded as a nineteenth-century treaty port to Britain and Japan.During the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945), the Kuomintang government moved from Nanjing to Chongqing and made the latter a war-time capital. As the site of second peace negotiations held between the Chiang Kai-shek Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party and the seat of headquarters of US Forces in China-Burma- India Theater, Chongqing has been affected to many changes of political events. In 1997, more than two million people rub elbows on the peninsula, with five times that number in the ever-expanding mantle of suburbs and industrial developments spreading away from the river. Today Chongqing is a major center of iron and steel production, motorcycle manufacturing and shipbuilding, as well as chemical and pharmaceutical production. Chongqing is the most obvious departure point for the three-day Yangzi river cruises downstream through the Three Gorges to Yichang and Wuhan.
Population
30,900,000
Cuisine
Sichuan Cuisine, has a reputation for being very hot and spicy. The Chongqing people like to enjoy the hotpot, which is noted for its peppery and hot taste, scalding yet fresh and tender.
When to Go
The four seasons in Chongqing are characterized as a warm winter, a hot summer, a nearly spring and a short autumn. It rains in the night when spring is changing into summer. Yangtze River cruise is available for all year around.
Chonqing Jiangbei International airport 30 km from city center. By shuttle bus: CNY 15/USD 2 p. person By taxi: CNY 80/USD 10 taxi |
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