Chongqing

name

Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 重慶 /重庆 (Chóngqìng).

1. A direct-administered municipality and city in western China.

   “Nanking attempted to maintain a nominal sovereignty by appointing Liu Xiang commissioner for the suppression of banditry (that is, communism) in 1933, but the province really eluded its control, and continued to do so until 1938, when the central government was driven back to Chongqing.”

   “The latest proposed relocation would affect residents along hundreds of miles of twisting lakeshore from Jiangjin, in the Chongqing municipality, to the dam’s location at Yichang, in Hubei Province.”