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Chongqing food is part of Sichuan cuisine. Chongqing is known for its spicy food. Its food is normally considered numbing because of the use of Sichuan pepper, also known as Sichuan peppercorn, containing hydroxy alpha sanshool. Chongqing's city center has many restaurants and food stalls where meals often cost less than RMB10.
The narrowest concept of Southwestern China consists of Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, and Guizhou, while wider definitions often include Guangxi and western portions of Hunan. [4] The official government definition of Southwestern China includes the core provinces of Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, and Guizhou, in addition to the Tibet Autonomous ...
In more recent times, the Sichuan Basin and the corridor between Chengdu and Chongqing have become developed as an economic centre known as the Chengyu Area. This area is mostly coterminous with the basin; it is part of a branding scheme by the Chinese government to attract investment to the area.
parts of Sichuan Province: Chongqing (Municipality) provincial transferred ★ Chongqing (PL-City) provincial-controlled: disestablished & merged into ☆ Fuling (PL-City) disestablished & merged into ↳ Zhicheng District: ↳ Fuling District: disestablished & established ↳ Lidu District: disestablished & established ↳ Dianjiang County ...
PRC-controlled administrative divisions by population (2013). Average Annual Population Growth Rate in each Chinese province (exc. Taiwan), municipality, and autonomous region between 2010 and 2020 according to the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics
Chongqing was part of Sichuan Province until 1939 and 1954 to 1997. Xikang Province dissolved in 1955 and parts were incorporated into Sichuan Province. The majority of the province's population is Han Chinese (95% of the provincial population), who are found scattered throughout the region except for the far western areas.
Chongqing officially became the capital on December 11, 1937. [18] In September 1937, Liu Xiang's troops stationed in Chongqing attacked the Japanese concession and declared its recovery. [19] In 1938, embassies of the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland were relocated to the Republic of China in Chongqing.
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 ...