Chongqing, also known as Mountain City, Chongqing City, Bridge City and Fog City for short, is the only municipality directly under the central government, national central city, mega-city, international metropolis and world hot spring capital of China people, the economic center, financial center, art, culture, education, science and technology center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and the comprehensive transportation hub of land, sea and air. Chongqing is called "Chongqing water" because of Jialing River in ancient times, so it is called Chongqing for short. In the first year of Chongning in the Northern Song Dynasty (1 102), Yuzhou was changed to Duke Zhou. In the Southern Song Dynasty 16 (1 189), in the first month, the son of filial piety first conferred the title of King Gong, and in February, he became emperor, which is known as "Double Celebration". Therefore, Duke Zhou was promoted to Chongqing, hence the name Chongqing. ? During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, the government of the Republic of China designated Chongqing as the wartime capital and permanent capital, and the Republic of China was the Southwest Command and the municipality directly under the Central Government in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. After the establishment of the municipality directly under the Central Government in June 1997, the transformation and revitalization of Chongqing's old industrial base accelerated, forming hundreds of billions of industrial clusters such as electronic information, automobile, equipment manufacturing, comprehensive chemical industry, materials, energy and consumer goods manufacturing, agriculture and rural areas.
1September 876 13, Britain used the "Yunnan case" as an excuse to force the Qing government to sign the Sino-British Yantai Treaty, which stipulated that Britain could send a consul to Chongqing. 1890, the British Consulate General in Chongqing was established. From 65438 to 0896, France, Japan and the United States set up consulates-general in Chongqing respectively. 1902, Russia established a Russian residence in Chongqing. 1904, Germany established a consulate in Chongqing.
During the Anti-Japanese War, from 65438 to 0938, 24 countries including Britain, the United States, France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland successively set up diplomatic embassies in Chongqing. And 19 building.
By the end of 20 17, there were 10 consulates general in Chongqing, namely: British Consulate General in Chongqing, Cambodian Consulate General in Chongqing, Japanese Consulate General in Chongqing, Philippine Consulate General in Chongqing, Hungarian Consulate General in Chongqing, Ethiopian Consulate General in Chongqing, Canadian Consulate General in Chongqing and Danish Consulate General in Chongqing.
As of March 20 17, Chongqing has established sister city relations with 4 1 cities.
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