Driving Downtown Chongqing | The Mountain City, Bridge City, And Fog City | 重庆 | 雾都

One of the biggest cities in the world, with over 30 million people, Chongqing is an exciting metropolis. Few places in China, or anywhere else can claim an annual GDP growth rate of at least 10 percent for well over a decade. For me, Chongqing is rather like a small province, with a core city of over 8 million people. Economic growth began to take off spectacularly since Chongqing became its own municipality, separate from Sichuan province in 1997.

With a history stretching 3,000 years, Chongqing has been an important political, economic and strategic centre in China’s west. It is known as “mountain city” owing to its rugged terrain and steep gorges. The rest of the country also calls it one of China’s four “furnaces” as it becomes hot and humid in summer. The Yangtze River starts here and winds through the municipality and makes its way towards Shanghai on the eastern seaboard more than 1,600 kilometres away.

The Chinese Government has designated Chongqing as a key hub in western China, making it a bridgehead for economic development in the vast interior. As a result, Chongqing has benefited from Beijing’s policies such as the Go West strategy, the Chongqing Liangjiang New Area, the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the Belt and Road Initiative and the Chengdu-Chongqing Cities Cluster Development Strategy, as well as the establishment of a Chongqing Pilot Free Trade Zone.

Chongqing is China’s biggest producer of automobiles with an annual production of over 3 million vehicles in 2016. It also produced more than 8 million motorcycles. Incredibly, Chongqing produced 58 million laptops – one third of the world's production in 2016. It also produced 280 million mobile phones that year, which was 15 per cent of China’s total mobile phone production.

The most important city in western China and the economic engine of the upper Yangzi, Chongqing City is a massive and enthralling urban sprawl.

Chongqing makes up for a lack of top-notch sights with fantastic food and charismatic geography: its combination of steep hills at the confluence of the Yangzi and Jialing Rivers is a prelude to the even more dramatic scenery of the Three Gorges downstream.

Chongqing(formerly spelled Chungking), is an economically important municipality in West China and is the biggest inland municipality of the country with plans for even more massive growth.

The term "Chongqing" can refer to either the city of Chongqing (urban area with a population of approximately 8,518,000) or the Chongqing municipality (much large administrative area including non-city areas and a population of over 30 million).

Chongqing is also the launching point for scenic boat trips down the Yangtze River through the Three Gorges Dam. The Buddhist Dazu Rock Carvings are located three hours west of Chongqing City in the outlying Chongqing Municipality and is listed as an UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Chongqing is one of four municipalities in China. Chinese municipalities are large administrative districts that report directly to the national government but are not a province. China has 3 similar municipalities: Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin. Chongqing municipality is the largest directly controlled municipality in China. While no longer part of Sichuan province since 1997, it was historically and culturally part of it and still shares the same love for hot and spicy food dishes.

Neighbouring provinces: Hubei (east), Hunan (east), Guizhou (south), Sichuan (west), Shaanxi (north)

Located on the edge of the Yungui Plateau, and surrounded by small green capped mountains, Chongqing City is intersected by the Jialing River and the upper reaches of the Yangtze. It contains the Daba Shan in the north, Wu Shan in the east, Wuling Shan in the southeast, and Dalou Mountain to the south.

One of the biggest cities in the world, with over 32 million people, Chongqing is an exciting metropolis.

Few places in China, or anywhere else can claim an annual GDP growth rate of at least 10 percent for well over a decade.

Economic growth began to take off spectacularly since Chongqing became its own municipality, separate from Sichuan province in 1997.

With a history stretching 3,000 years, Chongqing has been an important political, economic and strategic centre in China’s west. It is known as “mountain city” owing to its rugged terrain and steep gorges.

The rest of the country also calls it one of China’s four “furnaces” as it becomes hot and humid in summer. The Yangtze River starts here and winds through the municipality and makes its way towards Shanghai on the eastern seaboard more than 1,600 kilometres away.

0:00 Intro
0:54 Old downtown Chongqing
9:19 New Downtown Area
14:19 Riverside Road
25:00 Random Driving in Chongqing

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