My idea being "simplicity", this thread will not be complete in detail therefore I apologize for any incompleteness. On geographical, historical, thematic issues, everyone has the possibility to look more closely on the Internet.
I have not included explicit references each time I've used excerpts. Indeed I have taken a few excerpts only for the convenience of understanding adapted to the readers, for the reason English is not my first language. This is just an issue about the form of the thread, it does not change facts.
Welcome to Chongqing, China.
The purpose of my trip to Chongqing at that time was threefold : Meetings, to visit 3 special military historic places, to launch from there on the Yang Tsé river to reach the Three Gorges Dam which the journey is the main topic of this thread.
Chongqing (“Double-Blessed” in Chinese) is the most populous municipality of China and the unofficial biggest city in the world as well. It was a part of Sichuan Province, but it was made a "municipality" in 1997. Now granted with a particular status, Chongqing reports directly to the national government of China. It is a major center of iron and steel production, motorcycle manufacturing and shipbuilding, as well as chemical and pharmaceutical production. Chongqing has grown dramatically in population and economic importance, becoming the major industrial center of southwestern China.
It is a city with a long history. After Nanjing fell in 1937, Chongqing served as the capital of China. Chiang Kai-Shek established his military headquarters up in the mountains above Chongqing, on the East bank of the Yang Tsé River. As a result the Japanese bombers never found it.
Pictures of sections of Chongqing along the Yang Tsé River.
I have not included explicit references each time I've used excerpts. Indeed I have taken a few excerpts only for the convenience of understanding adapted to the readers, for the reason English is not my first language. This is just an issue about the form of the thread, it does not change facts.
Welcome to Chongqing, China.
The purpose of my trip to Chongqing at that time was threefold : Meetings, to visit 3 special military historic places, to launch from there on the Yang Tsé river to reach the Three Gorges Dam which the journey is the main topic of this thread.
Chongqing (“Double-Blessed” in Chinese) is the most populous municipality of China and the unofficial biggest city in the world as well. It was a part of Sichuan Province, but it was made a "municipality" in 1997. Now granted with a particular status, Chongqing reports directly to the national government of China. It is a major center of iron and steel production, motorcycle manufacturing and shipbuilding, as well as chemical and pharmaceutical production. Chongqing has grown dramatically in population and economic importance, becoming the major industrial center of southwestern China.
It is a city with a long history. After Nanjing fell in 1937, Chongqing served as the capital of China. Chiang Kai-Shek established his military headquarters up in the mountains above Chongqing, on the East bank of the Yang Tsé River. As a result the Japanese bombers never found it.
Pictures of sections of Chongqing along the Yang Tsé River.
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