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Chongqing is a famous cultural city with a history of 3000 years and a glorious revolutionary tradition. It is the birthplace of Bayu culture. Towards the end of the Old Stone Age approximately 20000-30000 years ago, mankind began to live in Chongqing. In Shang and Zhou Dynasties (C.11th century BC) Ba people founded Kingdom Ba and made Chongqing their capital. Domain of Ba in its most flourishing period was "to Yufu (present Fengjie) in the east, to Dao in the west, to Hanzhong in the north and to Qianfu in the south". Original Chongqing was the centre to jurisdict East Sichuan, South Shanxi, West Hubei, Northwest of Hunan and North Guizhou. In all dynasties since Qing and Han this region was for most of the time a unified administrative region with Chongqing as the centre. In the old times Chongqing was called Jiangzhou. Then it was called Bajun, Chuzhou, Yuzhou and Gongzhou. In A.D. 581 Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty changed Chuzhou to Yuzhou, thus coming the short form Yu for Chongqing. In 1189 Emperor Guang Zhong of Song Dynasty was first conferred on prince and then ascended the throne. He called it double happiness and Chongqing (doublehappiness) gained its name. It is almost 800 years now. In 1891, Chongqing became an open port. In 1929 Chongqing was formally made a city. During the War of Resistance against Japan Chongqing was capital of the Nationalist government. When the Nationalist government returned to Nanjing, Chongqing remained a municipality directly under the central government. In the years following the founding of New China, Chongqing was the location of CPC Southwest Bureau and Southwest Civil & Military Commission, it was the political, economic and cultural center in the southwest and a city of municipality status. In 1954 Chongqing became a city under the jurisdiction of Sichuan provincial government. In 1983 Chongqing took the lead in experimenting on comprehensive economic structural reforms and was granted provincial jurisdiction over economy. Eight counties of Yongchuan merged into Chongqing.In 1992, Chongqing was made an open city along the Yangtse River. In Sept. 1996 the Central Government approved Chongqing to administer Wanxian, Fuling and Qianjiang Region on behalf of the province. On March 14, 1997 the 5th Session of the 8th National People? Congress examined and approved to dismiss the original Chongqing and set up Chongqing municipality to administer the original Chongqing, Wanxian, Fuling and Qianjiang Region.

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