Magic of Chongqing, A Mind-blowing Walking Tour of China's Craziest City
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Published 2023-12-08
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A Charming City of Antiquity and Modernity
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Chongqing, A.K.A Yu for short, is located along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in Southwest China. As China’s fourth municipality directly under the administration of the Central Government and the only one in Western China, it is newly established as one of five central cities in China.
Chongqing is one of China's four direct-controlled municipalities (the others are Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin).
It is the largest of the municipalities by area and it is the only one that is located far away from the coast. Chongqing is located in southwestern China within Sichuan Province and shares borders with Shaanxi, Hunan, and Guizhou provinces.
The city is known as being an important economic center along the Yangtze River as well as a historical and cultural center for the country of China.
Chongqing covers 82,400 square kilometers and governs 38 districts and counties (including autonomous counties), and has a total population of 33,434,400 with 29,450,000 permanent residents.
Chongqing is a great city to explore with its winding walkways, stairways and banyan besieged older neighbourhoods. Its locals are frank and honest and delightfully playful.
Chongqing is a humid city. Summer and autumn are the rainy seasons. The annual rainfall is 1,000-1,100mm.
Chongqing is a logistics hub combining water, road and air transportations, a modern manufacturing base, an important business center and the pivot for integrated transportation and communications along the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and in southwest China.
It has established business and trade relations with more than 180 countries and regions. Modern farming is now growing with strong momentum, as are a wide range of fast developing industries, including automobile, motorcycle, equipment, gas/petroleum chemical engineering and materials.
Chongqing is a well-known tourism city for its fantastic mountain-river scenery and abundant historic and cultural sites.
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Chongqing is famous for its delicious Sichuan style cuisine and hotpot.
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Due to a classification technicality, Chongqing municipality can claim to be the largest city proper in the world—though it does not have the world's largest urban area. Chongqing is the only city in China with a permanent population of over 30 million, however this number includes a large rural population.
Among them, the total permanent population of Chongqing, Shanghai, Beijing and Chengdu is above 20 million. Shanghai is China's most populous urban area while Chongqing is its largest city proper, the only city in China with the largest permanent population of over 30 million.
Most of travelers come to Chongqing are mainly for the relaxing 4 / 5 days Yangtze River cruise, but, the city itself, has many things to see and explore. If you like, you can spend another half day to two days visiting the mountain city and around.
The most important city in western China and the economic engine of the upper Yangzi, Chongqing City is a massive and enthralling urban sprawl. Chongqing makes up for a lack of top-notch sights with fantastic food and charismatic geography: its combination of steep hills at the confluence of the Yangzi and Jialing Rivers is a prelude to the even more dramatic scenery of the Three Gorges downstream.
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On March 14, 1997, however, the city was merged with the neighboring districts of Fuling, Wanxian, and Qianjiang and it was separated from Sichuan to form Chongqing Municipality, one of China's four direct-controlled municipalities.
Today Chongqing is one of the most important economic centers in western China. It also has a diversified economy with major industries in processed food, automobile manufacturing, chemicals, textiles, machinery, and electronics. The city is also the largest area for the manufacture of motorcycles in China.
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0:00 Intro
1:31 Liberation Monument Central Business District
40:02 Mountain Hiking Trail shopping area
1:18:44 Historical 18 Steps Shopping Area
1:48:16 Road to Chongqing's Landmark, Chaotianmen Square
2:07:31 The Unreal Riverside Scenes
2:24:09 The Jungle-like Shopping Mall
3:09:46 Beicang Cultural and Creative Block
3:37:32 A cool Metro Station of Chongqing
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All Comments (21)
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Glad to see that more and more westerners are going to know China through their in-person visits instead of western medias.
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Thanks so much for the wonderful video. Love from Czech Republic. It has only been ten years since I visited Shanghai, china and saw how beautiful china is,but it has changed so much already. Chinese people were so nice and friendly to me there in Shanghai. Saving up to visit China again. Hope to see chongqing in real life. These videos help motivate me to save money. ☺🇨🇿🇨🇳
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Chongqing is simply amazing. I really have to see it myself. The development is first class and the physical geography makes it so unique. Thank you Max for another great video.
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Living in Scotland, these are wonderful Cities I would otherwise never see. Thank you so much for taking the time to do these walks. As soon as I win the Lottery, I will move to China!.
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It turns out there are such beautiful cities in the world. I'm looking forward to traveling to beautiful Chongqing next year.
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I’m in awe with Chinese cities.Even the little villages are amazing.Awe inspiring architecture. Great urban planning.It gets better and better.I would love to spend just a year living in China just to see for myself.Truly magnificent.
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I'm sitting here in Germany, watching this video and just can't believe that such huge cities exist on this earth. I had been to New York City two years ago and that was already an exceptional experience for me, but Chinese cities again represent a whole new dimension in terms of scale. I read that there are 125 megacities in China. This is unimaginable. Finally, I can only say that I am very impressed and that this city seems to me like a dream place that is located on a completely different planet. Speechless! Best regards anyway and thanks for the video!!! 我坐在德國，觀看這段視頻，簡直不敢相信地球上有如此巨大的城市。兩年前我去過紐約，這對我來說已經是一次非凡的經歷，但中國城市在規模上再次代表了一個全新的維度。我讀到中國有125個特大城市。這是難以想像的。最後，我只能說，我印象非常深刻，這座城市對我來說就像是位於完全不同的星球上的夢想之地。無語了！無論如何，最誠摯的問候，感謝您的影片！
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🇩🇪 here, planning on studying in China for a semester and hopefully get an internship in Shenzhen next year, your videos motivate me to continue the hard work of studying mandarin❤️ thank you!💁🏻♂️
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I watched a video on this channel during the pandemic and dreamed when I would get to China! And so I spent July and August in Chongqing, and I was also in Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai! Full of delight, I love China and your channel! ) В пандемию смотрел видео на этом канале и мечтал, когда я уже в Китай попаду! И вот я июль и август прожил в Чунцине, еще был в Пекине, Чэнду и в Шанхае! Полный восторг, обожаю Китай и ваш канал! )
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China has out DONE the rest of the world. In just 40 yrs...! Returned to the top of the Nations... Again!!! Be proud 👍🇨🇳💪 CHINA 🇨🇳♥️...! I am!!! Amazing Story, City👍💪😍🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🇨🇳♥️🇨🇳♥️💖❤🥰😍
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China is just Insane place ❤️❤️🇨🇳🇨🇳
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What a lost opportunity for us to meet again
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👍🇨🇳 Wow beautiful Chongqing City I am from USA (New York)🇺🇸
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Chongqing is a great city really. We hardly hear about it. Thanks for your time, keep us tuned for more. Love China 🇨🇩♥️ 🇨🇳
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I've never heard of this city before but just wow, wow, wow! Thank you very much for upping my geography knowledge and introducing me to another world. Earned my sub :)
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Chongqing is one of the most advanced & futuristic cities of the world❤.One of the best cities to live in with top class infrastructure.Many people outside China don't even know about this mega metropolis.They only know about Beijing,Shanghai & Shenzhen.The mountain hiking trail shopping area is very unique & creative.The ride on Chaotianmen Square is very scary,I will never sit on it since Iam afraid of heights.The jungle like shopping mall is a well-built and beautiful looking mall from the inside.Chongqing is a must visit city while going to China.This city will blow everyone's mind❤.
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I find China much more impressive and attractive than Japan these days.
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Chinese construction workers and civil engineers has paid their dues, this city is indeed crazy❤❤😂😂😂
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ಚೀನಾದ ಪ್ರತಿಯೊಂದು ನಗರವು ವಿಭಿನ್ನ ಮತ್ತು ಅದ್ಭುತಗಳನ್ನು ಹೊಂದಾದೆ ❤
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A china é muito linda todas as cidades são lindas muito obrigado por postar esses vídeos 🎉
