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Chongqing Municipality Scenes
9. History of Chongqing Municipality Page 1
Chongqing lies at the confluence
of the Yangzi and Jialing Rivers in the southeast of the Sichuan
Basin with a population of 30,000,000. Until the 1990s it was
part of Sichuan Province. It is now separated and self controlled.
More than 3,000 years ago it was originally called
"Ba", capital of the Ba Kingdom. Later in the Sui Dynasty it was
renamed "Yuzhou" after the Jialing River that was then called
the Yu River. "Yu" is still used today for the short form of
Chongqing. Emperor Zhao Dun of the Song Dynasty had been made
Prince of Gongzhou before he succeeded to the throne in 1190. To
commemorate the two happy events, he renamed the city as
Chongqing which, in Chinese, literarily means double jubilation.
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