It is the desire to reduce these disparities that explains the central government's selection of Chongqing for experimental reform.
The much-ballyhooed experiment netted just 90m yuan in its first ten months, less than 0.2% of Chongqing's tax revenue.
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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.
Observers worried last year when the southwestern city of Chongqing took action over a price-labeling issue at Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
Ford Motor Co. plans to manufacture two of its four SUVs, the EcoSport and the Kuga, in the southwestern city of Chongqing.
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.
Aged 73, Ms. Yu lives with her husband in a dilapidated house in Rensha, a town of 31, 000 on the edges of Chongqing in western China.
In January, the southern city of Zhongshan increased a price cap on residential home sales, and the western city of Chongqing raised the minimum threshold where a property holding tax applies.
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Jiangjin prospered when it was absorbed into the central part of Chongqing in 2006 as part of a government initiative to integrate outlying areas into the core city through transportation infrastructure.
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.
Hubei, as well as the municipality of Chongqing.
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The benefits of being a Chongqing urbanite still cannot be transferred to any other part of the country.
The skylines of Shanghai, Chongqing, and other cities are much more impressive than those of New York or London.
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.
While in the city, Mr. Browne also test-drove a new alternative-energy car at the site of state-run Chongqing Changan Automobile Co.
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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.
Born on October 25, 1944 into a rural family where both parents were schoolteachers, Mr. Ren spent his primary and middle school years in a remote mountainous town in Guizhou Province, and studied at Chongqing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, where he graduated in 1963.
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".
Word comes from Enstrom that as of December 27, 2012, Chongqing Helicopter Investment Co.
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In Chongqing only 10% of the government's annual sales of undeveloped rural land are subject to the dipiao system.
Mr. Browne, who is a Liberal Democrat, is one of a number of British dignitaries to have visited Chongqing in recent years.
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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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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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Due to the frequency of electrical stoppages, the mayor demanded that Chongqing Konka's steady supply be given top priority.
Also badly affected has been Chongqing, a city the size of Belgium.
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.
Chongqing Holley, a sister company of Kunming's, has set up a research laboratory in Hunan to help it identify high-yielding plants and establish a seed bank.
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.
In effect, Chongqing and Chengdu have created a new class of urban residents who enjoy the best of both worlds.
The other three, Chongqing, Madrid and Riyadh, were a mixture of the two types.
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