Land for Chongqing Konka, for instance, was granted at one-quarter of market rates.
For example Chongqing in southwest China is now a powerhouse for motorbikes, while Shenzhen in Guangdong Province an electronics hub.
For example, Chongqing is building the development zones to attract investors that Guangdong pioneered in the 1980s.
It is the desire to reduce these disparities that explains the central government's selection of Chongqing for experimental reform.
Ford has been thriving in Chongqing for more than a decade, and it expects to continue to do so in the future.
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Thus, in order to take advantage of this growth, United Technologies has opened a new manufacturing facility for Otis elevators in Chongqing in southwestern China.
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It has been punished 21 times in Chongqing since 2006 for a variety of wrongdoings, ranging from false advertising to selling out-of-date food.
He Jingjun, associate professor at Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing and commentator for The Beijing News, welcomes the execution decision as a "milestone in the protection of Chinese citizens overseas".
The Shanghai plant's annual capacity is 2.6 million batteries, less than a Jiangsu Province plant that can produce 8 million units and a plant being built in Chongqing with a capacity for 6 million batteries annually.
Minsheng's former reputation for good management was still alive in Chongqing, and it stood in stark contrast to that of the Yangzi River Steamboat Company.
Over the last two years, the government has raised downpayment and mortgage requirements, imposed a property tax for the first time in Shanghai and Chongqing, increased construction of low-cost housing and enacted home-purchase restrictions in about 40 cities.
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The cities of Chongqing, Wuhan and Zhengzhou, for instance, have allowed first-home buyers to borrow more from government-sponsored savings funds.
Despite repeated attempts, a representative from Chongqing Light couldn't be reached for comment.
Chongqing is a good place to be for auto companies because it is out west where sales growth looks most promising.
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Each day, 1, 370 people arrive in Chongqing, China, most destitute and looking for any kind of work.
"In Chongqing and other areas, you see massive projects for social housing very, very far away, in the middle of nowhere, away from the city centre, " she says.
Zotye, a small Zhejiang province-based automaker also reportedly has an electric vehicle ready for sale, as do Chery of Anhui Province and Lifan of Chongqing.
There are conditions: they must have been working in urban areas for at least three years, or for five years if they want to transfer their hukou to the centre of Chongqing.
From Wuhan to Chongqing, Chengdu to Hangzhou, second tier cities are emerging as hubs for both international and domestic executives.
Chongqing also hopes to turn a wave of migration into a labor pool for the low-wage manufacturing industries it is trying to lure to move from China's coastal areas.
Mr. Ottaway, in his letter, also asked for clarification of what relationship Mr. Heywood had with the British Consulate-General in Chongqing, where Mr. Heywood was found dead, or the British Embassy in Beijing.
Chongqing, the fastest-growing city on the planet a half decade ago, thinks it can urbanize for at least another two decades.
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