Chongqing, with a metropolitan area as large as Austria, is considered one of the four most important cities as it serves as a vehicle for spreading industrialization across China’s underdeveloped western frontier. Chongqing was part of Sichuan Province until 1997, but with the entire province totaling 100 million people, it was divided up to make governance easier. However, culturally and historically, it’s basically identical to Sichuan. It’s the financial capital of the upper Yangtze and once served as the nation’s provincial wartime Capital during World War II.
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