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Chongqing [a] is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the Central People's Government, along with Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin. It is the only directly administrated municipality located deep inland. [13]
Chongqing is the largest of the four direct-controlled municipalities of the People's Republic of China and is further divided into 26 districts, 8 counties, and 4 autonomous counties. It had 17 counties until October 2011, when Qijiang County and Wansheng District were merged to form the new Qijiang District , and Dazu County and Shuangqiao ...
Evidence of human activity in Chongqing has been discovered dating back to the Paleolithic, approximately 20–30 thousand years ago. [1] The fossils of a lower jawbone and teeth of an extinct non-hominin ape discovered near Wushan County in 1985 was originally thought to be a 2-million-year-old primitive human known as Wushan Man.
The Chongqing Municipal People's Government is the local administrative agency of Chongqing. It is officially elected by the Chongqing Municipal People's Congress and is formally responsible to the CMPC and its Standing Committee.
Yuzhong District is the economic center of Chongqing. In 2015, the region's GDP reached 95.8 billion Yuan , the per capita GDP reached 147,524 Yuan , [ 3 ] retail sales reached 141.6 billion Yuan. [ citation needed ] The number of commercial banks in the district and municipal financial institutions reached 18, including HSBC , Standard ...
The politics of Chongqing is structured in a dual party-government system like all other governing institutions in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The mayor of Chongqing is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Chongqing. As since 1997 Chongqing has been a centrally administered municipality, the mayor occupies the ...
Location of Chongqing Municipality in China. This is a list of township-level divisions of the municipality of Chongqing, People's Republic of China (PRC).After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative divisions of the PRC.
Prior to Chongqing's formation as a direct-controlled municipality, Wanzhou was part of Sichuan province. The urban core of Wanzhou is 228 km (142 mi) away from Chongqing's city proper. The urban core of Wanzhou is 228 km (142 mi) away from Chongqing's city proper.