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Chongqing was the wartime capital of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War (i.e., World War II), and from 1937 to 1945, [71] the seat of administration for the Republic of China's government before its departure to Nanjing and then Taiwan. [72]
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 Chongqing Rail Transit is a unique transit system in China because of the geography of Chongqing being a densely-populated but mountainous city, with multiple river valleys. Two lines use heavy-monorail technology, leveraging the ability to negotiate steep grades and tight curves and rapid transit capacity.
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 ...
Shanghai is China's most populous urban area, [8] [9] while Chongqing is its largest city proper, the only city in China with the largest permanent population of over 30 million. [ 10 ] As of 2020, there were 113 Chinese cities with over 1 million people in urban areas.
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.
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 ...
The Chongqing Municipal Committee was established in May 1949. [1] In June 1997, after Chongqing was split from Sichuan to become a direct-administered municipality, Chongqing Municipal Committee became the municipality's highest administrative agency. [2]