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Area: 82,042 square kilometres General information: The city
is located along the upper portion of the Yangtze River in southwest China. In March 1997, Chongqing was
upgraded in administrative status to become the fourth municipality that is
responsible directly to the central government (together with Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin). At that time, the administrative
jurisdiction of the Chongqing government was extended to include its
neighbouring Fuling city（涪陵市）, Wanxian city（萬縣市）and the Qianjiang region（黔江地區）. Chongqing municipality is
expected to have an important function in the resettlement program for more
than one million people who will be affected by the Three Gorges Dam Project,
which is located downstream on the Yangtze River. About RMB 70 billion will be needed for the redevelopment
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Railways － Chongqing is a major
transportation hub in southwest China.
Three major railways, referred to as the Chengyu Lines（成渝線), are: Chengdu-Chongqing 成都－重慶）, Chuanqian Lines（川黔線: Chengdu-Guiyang 成都－貴陽）and Xiangyu Lines（襄渝線: Xiangfang-Chongqing 襄樊－重慶）. The municipality also plans to
construct a railway running along the Yangtze River to Shanghai within the
next 5 years. This new railway will connect
Chongqing with cities in Sichuan,
Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces. An urban rail system is also
under construction in Chongqing. Roadways － One of the major
roadways is the Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway （成渝高速公路）which connects Chongqing with the national
highway network. Chongqing Lijiatuo
Yangtze Bridge（重慶李家沱長江大橋）, Fengjiang Yangtze Bridge（豐江長江大橋）and a 10 km ring-road encircling Chongqing
have eased traffic bottlenecks within the city. Other major roadways include
Yuchang Expressway（渝長高速公路）, linking Chongqing and Changshou（長壽）, and an 53.5 km-long expressway from
Changshou to Fuling（長涪高速公路）, and the Yuqian Expressway（渝黔高速公路）from Chongqing to Guiyang（貴陽）. Two key projects in the tenth
Five-Year Plan are the Chongqing- Beihai Expressway and Chongqing- Zhanjiang
Expressway. These two roadways are
key components of the Southwest Sea Passage, which is expected to complete
before 2005. Air Transport － The Chongqing Jiangbei
International Airport（江北機場）was recently expanded to allow more flights. The
first direct air route between Chongqing and Seoul, capital of the Republic
of Korea, was opened in June 2000. Currently,
Chongqing has direct air routes to about 50 domestic cities and countries
including Hong Kong, Macao, Bangkok, Munich, Nagoya. Telecommunications －Chongqing has
direct-dial telephone and telegram links with most major overseas countries
and regions. There were over 1.7
million installed telephone lines at the end of June 2000, linking the city
with other domestic and overseas cities. The telephone penetration rate reached 7.8 per cent in 2000,
while the number of mobile telephones subscribers reached 540,000. Gas Supply － Construction of a new
gas pipeline started in 2000, which will link the provinces of Sichuan and Hubei. Main part of the pipeline starts at
Zhongxian County in Chongqing and ends in Wuhan. The project is expected to complete by
early 2003. Oil Supply － Construction of Lanzhou-Chengdu-Chongqing oil
pipeline is almost completed. It
would pass through 30 counties and cities in Gansu and Shaanxi provinces with
Chongqing. It will have an annual oil
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Chongqing is one of the four
major producers of motor vehicles and is one of the main military production
bases of China. Motor car production
grew strongly by nearly 40 per cent to 219,000 in 1999. Leading car makers include Changan
Automotive Corp and China Jialing Industrial Corporation Group （中國嘉陵工業集團）-- a joint venture with the Honda
Corporation in Japan. Motor bikes are produced by
Jialing Motorcycle Company, Lifan Hongda Enterprise （力帆轟達企業）, and Chongqing Longqin Industrial Group（重慶隆欽工業集團）. The municipality is also one of
the 9 largest iron and steel centres in China and one of the three major aluminium
producers. It produces more than 120
kinds of steel products and 13,000 kinds of specifications of aluminium
goods. It is also one of the most
important chemical and pharmaceutical production bases in China. Although motor cars,
metallurgical products and chemicals will continue to be the pillar
industries of the municipality, other major industries include textiles,
machinery, electronics, building materials and food processing. Chongqing's
exports doubled from US$530 million to US$1.1 billion in 2000. This increase is attributed largely to
Chongqing’s rapidly expanding motor bike industry. Other major exported goods included clothing and textiles,
chemicals and pharmaceuticals, foodstuffs, machinery, hand tools and other
light products. Hong Kong was the largest export market, accounting for 31 per cent of
the total. Other export markets were
Japan, the US, Germany, Republic of Korea and the Netherlands. Imports remained basically unchanged in 2000. Imports of motor vehicle parts accounted
for 34 per cent of the total, while other major categories were electronic
equipment, chemical materials, steel and iron, and light industrial
products. Major import sources were
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The Chongqing Economic & Technological
Development Zone （重慶經濟技術開發區） This was established in 1990
and covers an area of 9.6 square kilometres.
By the end of 1999, more than 260 foreign-invested projects were
approved with total investment of US$1.3 billion, mainly from Japan, Hong
Kong, the USA, and Taiwan. Most
foreign-invested projects were involved in motor cars, motor bikes and other
high-tech manufacturing industries The Chongqing New
and High Technological Development Zone （重慶高新技術開發區） The zone, covering an area of
30 square kilometres, was developed to attract both overseas and domestic investment
in high-tech industries, such as photoelectric, microelectronics, automation
instruments and computer software. In
1999, the GDP of the Development Zone amounted to RMB 8.5 billion. The average annual growth of GDP in the
Zone since its establishment in 1991 had been 77.48 per cent. |
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Jiafangbei Commercial District （解放碑） locating in the Yuzhong District, is
Chongqing's traditional commercial centre.
Most major state-owned and foreign-owned department stores are
situated in this district. Major
department stores and shopping centers include Chongqing Department Store（重慶百貨大樓）, Chongqing New Century Department Store（重慶新世紀百貨）, the Metropolis Plaza（大都會廣場）, Chongqing Qunying Shopping Center（群鷹百貨）, Chongqing Pacific Department Store（重慶太平洋百貨）, Chongqing Fu'an Department Store（重慶富安百貨）, Chongqing Wanyou Parkson Shopping Arcade（重慶萬友白盛百貨）, Chongqing Yangguang Department Store（重慶陽光百貨）, Jiafangbei Central Shopping Center（解放碑中心購物廣場）and Jialefu Direct-sale Department Store（家樂福直銷商場）. |
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Hong Kong Trade Development Council (http://www.tdctrade.com). |
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James Zhan, Manager: james.zhan@austrade.gov.au Stephanie Zhou, Business Development Manager: stephanie.zhou@austrade.gov.au Rm408 Holiday Inn, 31 Zongfu St. Tel: (86 28) 6786 128 The Chamber is in the process of maintaining regular
contact with organisations in the Chongqing.
Please contact us if you require additional information. |
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