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Article: Pillar of the West
- Article from:
- The China Business Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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A leader in China's western development faces tough challenges
Chongqing's rise to prominence can be traced back to the middle of the twentieth century. From 1937 to 1945? when Japanese troops occupied Nanjing, Jiangsu (China's capital at the time), the mountainous city of Chongqing was regarded as a safe haven and chosen as the capital of the Guomindang government. Despite heavy bombing by the Japanese, Chongqing's population tripled during World War II and many important institutions and industries were relocated there, laying the foundations for the city's industrial power base. China's future paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, was the city's first mayor after the People's Republic of ...