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Chongqing railway station in Yuzhong, accessible via Metro Lines 1 & 3 (Lianglukou Metro station), is the city's oldest railway station and located near the Jiefangbei CBD in the city center. The station handles mostly long-distance trains.
On November 23, the Sichuan Military Government was established, appointing Zhang Peijue of the Chongqing Revolutionary Alliance as the commander-in-chief and Xia Zhishi as the deputy commander-in-chief, marking Chongqing's entry into the Republic of China era. [14] In 1929, Chongqing was formally declared a city. [8]
The Chinese municipality of Chongqing, which is the largest city proper in the world by population, comprises a huge administrative area of 82,403 km 2, around the size of Austria. However, more than 70% of its 30-million population are agricultural workers living in a rural setting .
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 ...
Yuzhong District (渝中区) is the central district and heart of Chongqing municipality. It is the capital of the municipality and is also the political, economical, and entertainment center of the city of Chongqing. [1] Located in the central portion of Yuzhong is the Jiefangbei CBD, a leading business and financial center of western China.
Since 1997, the Chongqing Municipal People's Congress has governed Chongqing. [1] Chongqing was previously also governed by a municipal government between 1939 and 1954, but in 1929–1939 and 1954–1997, when Chongqing was a sub-provincial city rather than a centrally administered municipality, it was governed by the Chongqing City Government.
Chongqing is the largest city in China and the only provincial-level municipality (which means the municipal jurisdiction covers an entire administrative region and there is no separate provincial government) in western and central China, with more than 18 million people living in the urban area and total population of 30 million in the ...
The economy of Chongqing, China, has developed rapidly since it was separated from the Sichuan and became a centrally-administered municipality in 1997. [1] In 2019, it was the sixth-largest Chinese city economy and ranked as China's third-largest municipal economy. [2]