ChongqingNewNorthernZone重庆北部新区英汉互译.doc

Chongqing New Northern Zone: China’s Inland Open Economy Demonstration Zone In the world map suspending in the hall of United Nations, only four Chinese cities are marked, one of which is Chongqing. Somebody said that the territory of Chongqing looked like a phoenix. And Chongqing New North Zone, which is like a butterfly branded the phoenix in the chest, takes a very great part in the whole economic development of Chongqing. Ⅰ. The strategic status of Chongqing in the development of Chinese regional economy Chongqing is the joint of the east and the west of China with Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Shanxi, Guizhou as its neighbors. About 32 million people have populated the whole area of 82.4 thousand square kilometers of Chongqing, which made Chongqing the largest municipality with the largest population of China in 1997. Historically, Chongqing became the earliest inland opened trade port in 1891, and became one of the opened cities along Yangtze River in 1992. In 2007, Chongqing was authorized with one of the comprehensive reform trial places between urban and rural areas. Thence, Chongqing is the bridge head of the great development of the west and the front line of the opening of the west to the east of China, both of which entitle Chongqing the strategic place in the coordinate development of the east and the west as well as Chinese new century development. 1. Chongqing is the logistic center of Chinese western transportation Chongqing has the advantageous geographic location for it is the center of the Chinese mainland territory and in the upper reach of Yangtze River. It’s the largest industrial and commercial city in western China and the only transportation hub city integrating air, land and water transportation in the west. In the east 2,400 kilometers away Shanghai is located, through which Chongqing can reach the great ocean. And it can connect the coastal regions and then the ASEAN countries by way of Guizhou and Guangxi along the 1,