中国中西部唯一的中央直辖市

中国中西部唯一的中央直辖市

奇彩重庆 摄影：唐安冰

重庆是中国著名历史文化名城，有文字记载的历史3000多年。1189年，宋光宗赵惇先封恭王再即帝位，称为“双重喜庆”，重庆由此得名。重庆幅员面积8.24万平方公里，辖38个区县（自治县），常住人口3016.55万人（截至2015年），有“山城”之称。长江横贯全境，流程679公里。有长江三峡、世界文化遗产大足石刻、世界自然遗产武隆喀斯特和南川金佛山等壮丽景观。

1891年，重庆成为中国最早对外开埠的内陆通商口岸，1929年正式建市，抗日战争时期定为国民政府陪都。1997年6月18日，重庆直辖市正式挂牌，红绸揭开的瞬间，中国最年轻的中央直辖市正式成立，重庆以中国第四个直辖市的新构架阔步走上中国改革发展大舞台。

重庆，处在“一带一路”和长江经济带“Y”字形大通道的联接点上，与北京、天津、上海、广州一起，被确定为国家五大中心城市，在中西部地区一枝独秀。

直辖以来，重庆迎来了快速发展的机遇。重庆市已连续多年维持两位数的GDP增速。2014年和2015年分别以10.9%、11%的增速排在全国第一，与直辖时相比，重庆的GDP已经涨了10倍。2016年上半年，重庆GDP增速以10.6%的高增长继续领跑全国，这已是重庆连续多年在全国名列前茅。

Economic center of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River Photography Tang Anbing

Chongqing, with more than 3,000 years of written history, impresses the world as a well-known historical and cultural city of China. In the year of 1189, Emperor Guangzong of Song Dynasty ascended the throne after being crowned as the King of Gongzhou, which was definitely a double happiness. So he changed the name of Gongzhou into Chongqing (“Chong”literally means double and “qing” means happiness). Having been traversed completely by 679 miles of Yangtze River, Chongqing, also called the “mountain city”, covers an area of 82,400 km2, governs 38 districts and counties (autonomous counties) with a permanent resident population of 30,165,500 million people (up till 2015) and boasts plenty of picturesque landscapes like, the Yangtze Three Gorges, the Dazu Rock Carvings – one world cultural heritage and the Wulong Karst and Nanchuan Jinfo Mountain – two world natural heritages.

Having been opened to be the earliest inland treaty port for foreign trade in 1891, established offi cially as a city in 1929 and selected to be the auxiliary capital for national government during the period of anti-Japanese war, Chongqing was approved and unveiled to be the fourth and the youngest municipality city under the direct jurisdiction of the Central Government on the day of June 18, 1997. The moment when the red silk covering the name of Chongqing Municipality fell down, Chongqing started to stride on the big stage supported by China’s reform and opening-up to seek for better development in its brand new identity.

Located on the joint between the “Belt and Road” and the“Y-shaped” transport route of Yangtze River economic zone, Chongqing has been included into the fi ve national central cities together with Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Guangzhou and is going to outshine the brightest in west China.

Chongqing, after being approved to be a municipality city, has been developing rapidly with all the opportunities it’s been granted. For example, Chongqing has been maintaining a double-digit GDP growth rate for years in a row since then, which is 10 times more than that of the time when it just started being a municipality city. In the year of 2014 and 2015, Chongqing ranked first in China with a 10.9% and 11% GDP growth rate respectively, and for the first half year of 2016, it keeps advancing in front of other cities in China with a GDP growth rate of 10.6%, ranking the top nationwide for consecutive years.

Chongqing, the One and Only Municipality under Direct Jurisdiction of the Central Government in Central and Western China