Chongqing
As soon as we knew what area of China Junior is from, we quickly researched to find out more about Chongqing. It is the largest and most populous of China’s 4 provincial-level municipalities and has special municipality status in the province of Sichuan (aka Szechuan).
The municipality of Chongqing has a population of 35 million (!) with most people living outside the urban area of Chongqing proper in the farmland. The population of the urban area of Chongqing proper is 12 million.
If you know Marty well, you’ll know that he likes peace and quiet and uncrowded places. (Donna is a city girl; she doesn’t mind the noise and hustle and bustle of a busy city.)
As a comparison, here's a picture of the park next to our house:
Now here is a picture of Chongqing:
That's not the only difference. There is an absence of bicycles in CQ as the hills are steep – quite the contrast to the flat topography of our city. Car horns are banned to reduce noise pollution.
One travel guide writes: “Within China, it is famous for its searing summers when temperatures can exceed 40 deg C. This lovely climate has earned the city a place among the country’s 'three furnaces', along with Wuhan and Nanjing.” Lovely?!? Furnace?!?
It is at the confluence of 2 rivers and where the Three Gorges Dam, the damming of the Yangzi River, is due to be completed in 2009.
The place where our daughter currently lives, Xiushan, is about a 10 hour bus ride from Chongqing through mountainous terrain, but there will soon be a train which will cut the travel time down to 4 hours. Xiu has many meanings including: refined, elegant, graceful. We would love to visit to see where our daughter spent the first few months of her life, but perhaps another time.
Here's a map of Xiushan in relation to CQ:
As soon as we knew what area of China Junior is from, we quickly researched to find out more about Chongqing. It is the largest and most populous of China’s 4 provincial-level municipalities and has special municipality status in the province of Sichuan (aka Szechuan).
The municipality of Chongqing has a population of 35 million (!) with most people living outside the urban area of Chongqing proper in the farmland. The population of the urban area of Chongqing proper is 12 million.
If you know Marty well, you’ll know that he likes peace and quiet and uncrowded places. (Donna is a city girl; she doesn’t mind the noise and hustle and bustle of a busy city.)
As a comparison, here's a picture of the park next to our house:
Now here is a picture of Chongqing:
That's not the only difference. There is an absence of bicycles in CQ as the hills are steep – quite the contrast to the flat topography of our city. Car horns are banned to reduce noise pollution.
One travel guide writes: “Within China, it is famous for its searing summers when temperatures can exceed 40 deg C. This lovely climate has earned the city a place among the country’s 'three furnaces', along with Wuhan and Nanjing.” Lovely?!? Furnace?!?
It is at the confluence of 2 rivers and where the Three Gorges Dam, the damming of the Yangzi River, is due to be completed in 2009.
The place where our daughter currently lives, Xiushan, is about a 10 hour bus ride from Chongqing through mountainous terrain, but there will soon be a train which will cut the travel time down to 4 hours. Xiu has many meanings including: refined, elegant, graceful. We would love to visit to see where our daughter spent the first few months of her life, but perhaps another time.
Here's a map of Xiushan in relation to CQ:
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