"Mountain City" is another name for Chongqing, China. Chongqing is located in the southwest of China inland and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It covers an area of 82,400 square kilometers and governs 38 districts and counties (26 districts, 8 counties and 4 autonomous counties). The resident population is 3 1.02 million, and the urbanization rate is 65.5%. The population is mainly Han nationality, and the minority nationalities are mainly Tujia and Miao nationality. The landform is dominated by hills and mountains, of which mountains account for 76%, which is called "mountain city".

Chongqing is a famous historical and cultural city in China. With a written history of over 3,000 years, it is the birthplace of Bayu culture. Because Jialing River was called "Chongqing Water" in ancient times, Chongqing is also called "Chongqing" for short. In the first year of Chongning in the Northern Song Dynasty (1 102), Yuzhou was changed to Duke Zhou. In the Southern Song Dynasty 16 (1 189), Song Guangzong first conferred the title of King Gong and later conferred the title of Empress, which was called "Double Celebration", so he was promoted to Chongqing, hence the name Chongqing.

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Chongqing is the only municipality directly under the central government in central and western China. In the early days of the founding of New China, Chongqing was a municipality directly under the central government, the residence of the Southwest Bureau of the Central Committee, the Southwest Military and Political Committee and the political, economic and cultural center of the southwest region. 1954, Southwest China was revoked and changed to a municipality under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province. 1983 became the first pilot city for comprehensive reform of the economic system in China, with separate plans.

In order to promote the economic and social development of the western region and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and to plan and implement one million Three Gorges migrants in a unified way, the Fifth Session of the Eighth National People's Congress approved the establishment of Chongqing municipality from March 65438 to March 0997.

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