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November 30, 1949, Chongqing liberation. Chongqing, southwest of the liberation of the PLA into the tremendous victory for the people of Chongqing in the underground under the leadership of the heroic struggle of the results. 1949 Chongqing, the southwest provinces of the greatest political, military, economic and cultural center, an area of ​​300 square kilometers, population 1.1 million, to two rivers Center home, where the Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Kang, Yunnan, Guizhou and the commercial goods out of the Yangtze River who begin as transshipment hub in Chongqing, southwest of the commercial prosperity of the highest ranking, the material is strong. The early establishment of new China Southwest Chongqing Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the Southwest as the military and political station, the southwest regional political, economic and cultural center for the central municipality. In August 1952, recovery in Sichuan Province, Chongqing is still municipalities. In June 1954, after the abolition of the southwest region to Sichuan, Chongqing municipality. 1983 became the first comprehensive national economic system reform pilot cities, as cities with independent planning, management authority to give the provincial economy.1992 turned into an open city along the Yangtze River. February 25, 1994 was identified as the Central Organization Committee sub-provincial city. September 1996 Central Committee approved the escrow Wanxian Chongqing, Fuling and Qianjiang District.March 14, 1997, after the Fifth Session of Eighth National People's Congress examined and approved, return to the central municipality of Chongqing on June 18, 1997 formally.Become the Beijing Chongqing, Tianjin, Shanghai after China's fourth municipality directly under central, central and western China is the only central municipality, from the construction and development of Chongqing has opened a new chapter in history.