Brief introduction to Chongqing(2)

Chongqing is the forth largest openning-up city following Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou due to the large number of consulates-general, permanent foreign media organizations and foreign affairs departments set up here.

Chongqing is one of the places where hot pot originated,which has been conffered the title of "China Hot Pot City"at Mar,2007.

The 10th Urban Competitiveness List issued by China Urban Competitiveness Seminar in 2011 has ranked Chongqing in the 10th place for the first time followed by Wuhan and Chengdu.

Thanks to Chongqing's becoming a municipality, the construction of the Three Gorges Dam Project and the implementation of the Go West Policy, recent years have witnessed the strengths of Chongqing are enhanced. The city has energetically restucturing economy and openning wider to the outside world,deepened the reform of systems and accelerated infrastructural constuction in achieving economic and social development in a comprehensive way.

In 2011,the total local GDP broke through 1 trillion yuan,reaching RMB 1.0011 trillion ,up 16.4% over the previous year. The total industrial output value was RMB 1.2 trillion, an increase of 28.2% over the last year.And the industrial sector saw added value increase by 22.7%.

The foreign investment capital exceeded 10 billion yuan, and the actual use was RMB 10.58 billion, up 66.1% over the last year. The total export and inport volume was RMB 29.2 billion .In the first half of the year 2012 , the GDP amounted to 530.7 billion yuan,up 14%. The pace of GDP increase ranked the second in China, the first in the West. The general revenue reached RMB 82.6 billion ,up 18.4% .The per capita disposable income of urban residents and the per capita disposable income of rural residents were 11760 yuan and 4106 yuan ,and rose in real terms by 13.3% and 17.6% ,respectively. The export volumn was 25 billion yuan. It maintained steady development.

Today, Chongqing take the overall deployment of "314" by General Secretary Hu jintao as the guide, and improving people's livlihood and promoting a common prosperity proposed in the Fouth Party Congress as the general task ,thoroughly apply the Scientific Outlook on Development and strive to take the lead to build a well-off society in an all-round way.

(Source: State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs)