Chongqing is a comprehensive transportation hub in the southwest of China, also known as Mountain City and River City. It is a municipality directly under the Central Government of the People's Republic of China, a national central city, a megacity, one of the important national central cities approved by the State Council, an economic center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, an international consumption center, a core city in the Chengdu-Chongqing twin-city economic circle, an important advanced manufacturing center in China, a financial center in the west, an international comprehensive transportation hub in the west and an international gateway hub.

Chongqing is a model mountain city in China, the hot spring capital of the world and the hot pot capital of China. As the seat of Chengdu-Chongqing Financial Court and the first city in Central Europe, by 2022, Chongqing has 964 R&D platforms and 70 universities, including China (Chongqing) Pilot Free Trade Zone, Sino-Singapore (Chongqing) Strategic Interconnection Demonstration Project, and the new land and sea corridor in the west.

History and culture of Chongqing

1, diet

The main feature of Chongqing's diet is spicy, and it is good at using all kinds of ingredients to create new dishes. Chongqing is also the birthplace of hot pot. In March 2007, Chongqing was awarded the title of "Hot Pot Capital of China" by China Cuisine Association. The main representative dishes of Chongqing cuisine are: Chongqing hot pot, Jianghu dishes, boiled fish, Chongqing pork, pickled fish, spicy chicken, spring chicken, boiled sliced meat, old duck soup, hot and sour rice noodles, fish-flavored shredded pork, pickled pork intestines, steamed meat, boiled white noodles and Chongqing snacks.

2. Technology

Traditional arts and crafts in Chongqing include sculpture, lacquerware, embroidery, weaving, metal, ceramics, jewelry and flower painting. The main representatives are the world cultural heritage Dazu stone carving, as well as Liangping woodblock New Year pictures, Shu embroidery, Liangping bamboo curtains, Wuxi wedding flowers, Dazu stone carving, Fengjie wood carving, bronze dragon lantern ribbons, Rongchang pottery, Rongchang folding fans, weaving and Chongqing lacquer decoration.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Chongqing