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© Lonely Planet Publications 799 Chóngqìng 重庆 After years as a kind of understudy to Sìchuān, Chóngqìng is getting its moment in China’s spotlight. While more or less ignored by the rest of the country since its glory days as the wartime C capital, Chóngqìng’s development is now seen by Běijīng as the key to getting China’s H Ó interior up to speed with the east coast’s economic success. N G Q Chóngqìng is being showered with money in the hopes the boom will have a ripple effect, Ì N G lifting the mega municipality’s dozens of towns and hundreds of villages out of poverty. It’s a tall order for a city of five million and Chóngqìng is going through a fascinating awkward stage