After shouldering loads up and down steep hills here for 35 years, Mr Niu Dancheng knows the exact number of stairs to the Yangtze River docks where he often finds work as a porter. There are 128 to Dock 8 at Chaotianmen port, he said, which he had just descended with 40kg of roasted duck for a cruise ship.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged Chongqing, the start point of a transcontinental railway to Europe, to build itself into an international logistics hub in the hinterlands and a leading inland open economy.
Twenty-two people are confirmed dead after a coal mine accident on Tuesday evening in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, local authorities said.
Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Wednesday relaxed the city's birth control policy by allowing couples to have a second baby if either parent is an only child, the local legislature said at a press conference.
Sri Lanka is stepping up its campaign for attracting Chinese tourists by engaging with travel agents and participating in Chinese travel fairs, the External Affairs Ministry said here on Thursday.
Six people stood trial in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality Thursday for allegedly blackmailing government officials with secretly recorded sex videos.
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