Why doesn't Chongqing, such a big city, split in two?

Chongqing is a municipality directly under the central government of China, a national central city, an international metropolis and an economic, financial, scientific and technological, shipping and commercial logistics center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. As a municipality directly under the central government, many people disagree, because Chongqing is so big that it can be called a province, even surpassing Hainan, Ningxia, Taiwan Province and other provinces.

Chongqing has a total area of 82,400 square kilometers and a population of 30,484,300, which is more than twice the total area of the other three municipalities. Then why is Chongqing so big? This should start from the background of Chongqing's second establishment of a municipality directly under the Central Government.

There are three key reasons for Chongqing's direct administration. First, properly arrange the resettlement of the Three Gorges Project; The second is to give play to Chongqing's radiation-driven ability as a central city in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to promote the development of surrounding areas; Third, it deliberately split Sichuan, because the area of Sichuan at that time was too large and the population was too large. For these three reasons, when 1997 was directly under the central government for the second time, Chongqing annexed Wanxian City, Fuling City and Qianjiang District.

In addition, Chongqing itself, that is to say, has a holiday gradually on the basis of four prefecture-level administrative regions, and all of them are large cities (metropolitan areas) with large population and large area. Because Chongqing is so special, it is often unfair to compare the strength of a city with that of a "province" when comparing the data with other cities in China.

First of all, low housing prices are related to Chongqing's economic development level and population mobility, but more importantly, the relationship between market supply and demand is well grasped. The government has not taken the initiative to create a market atmosphere of land shortage, and some good measures can be copied to other cities. For example, 45 million square meters and 700,000 sets of public rental housing sounds like a big number, but in fact, for many hot cities of the same magnitude, it is only two to three years of land transfer. If these hot cities are willing to spend two to three years building public rental housing, the housing prices in these cities will definitely come down. Sacrificing two to three years' land transfer income can get a relatively healthy real estate market, so that residents of a city can work and live with peace of mind. Is this account worth it? I didn't know it before, but now I know that Chongqing has done it.

The prosperity of agricultural tourism industry is largely due to the establishment of land circulation and land ticket trading system, but this model may not be easily replicated. First of all, Chongqing is one of the two pilot areas in China (the other is Chengdu), and it has some policy advantages that other areas do not have. Secondly, Chongqing has many mountains and few plains, and the output of cultivated land is not high, which creates a relatively relaxed public opinion atmosphere for its land ticket transaction and index replacement. These two conditions are not available in every region.