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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.
Chongqing is the principal city in Southwest China being one of China's National Central Cities and the only such city in the interior west of China. As such, in 1997, Chongqing was separated from Sichuan province and made into a province-level municipality, the fourth in China after Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai. [13]
The economy of Chongqing, China, has developed rapidly since it was separated from the Sichuan and became a centrally-administered municipality in 1997. [1] In 2019, it was the sixth-largest Chinese city economy and ranked as China's third-largest municipal economy. [ 2 ]
Japanese bombers bombing a road in Chongqing, then part of Sichuan province, during WW2. In the early 20th century, the newly founded Republic of China established the Chuanbian Special Administrative District (川邊特別行政區) on the province's territories to the west of the Sichuan Basin.
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]
Sichuan province administrative regions GIS data: 1:1.000.000, County level, 1990 ... China_Chongqing_location_map.svg; ... Chongqing World Trade Center;
↳ Hechuan (CL-City) transferred 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 ...
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