Guangdong, he says, could learn from Chongqing's efforts to absorb migrants from the countryside into city life.
This autumn, Minsheng launches the first container service from Chongqing, aimed at inland manufacturers desperate to find new markets.
Despite repeated attempts, a representative from Chongqing Light couldn't be reached for comment.
From Wuhan to Chongqing, Chengdu to Hangzhou, second tier cities are emerging as hubs for both international and domestic executives.
It takes about as long to get a container from Long Beach, California, to Shanghai as it does to get one from Shanghai to Chongqing, a thousand miles or so up the Yangzi river.
The company turned itself into a national brand from its initial base in Chongqing.
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The report found that one-third of luxury consumption in China today came from just nine markets: Chongqing, Dongguan, Foshan, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Tianjin and Wenzhou.
During a trip last week to Chongqing, businesspeople from different fields told me its economy is basically healthy, though uncertainty hangs over the leadership jobs at some state-owned companies, the global business outlook and efforts by China to restructure its own economy.
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Property transactions by floor space in some major cities, such as Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Chongqing rose in May from a year earlier, according to statistics from data provider China Real Estate Information Corp.
Word comes from Enstrom that as of December 27, 2012, Chongqing Helicopter Investment Co.
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Not surprisingly, Chongqing grew fast once central planners separated it from Sichuan.
"Mom had a stroke last year, and the hospital charged 18, 000 yuan, but we could claim back only 1, 000 yuan from insurance, " said Mr. Luo, the Chongqing umbrella seller.
Chongqing police said investigation of the case started from an audit conducted by the National Audit Bureau, which found that 19 companies had inappropriately transferred tens of billions of yuan from company accounts to individual accounts since January 2010.
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At the outset, and in spite of limited resources, Chongqing's city fathers culled 5 million RMB from limited funds to support the company.
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.
In eight of the 70 cities, including major cities Chongqing and Harbin, prices of newly built homes were up in March from the previous month.
The cities of Chongqing, Wuhan and Zhengzhou, for instance, have allowed first-home buyers to borrow more from government-sponsored savings funds.
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