Is the second largest city in Chongqing Wanzhou, Fuling or Yongchuan?

Wanzhou is the second largest city in Chongqing.

Wanzhou, the second largest city in Chongqing, has a long history, and is named after "Wan Chuan Bi Hui" and "Wanshang Biji". Wanzhou District is located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the northeast of Chongqing, in the center of the Three Gorges reservoir area, with a unique geographical position. It used to be an important material distribution center in northeastern Chongqing, eastern Sichuan, western Hubei, southern Shaanxi, eastern Guizhou and western Hunan, and a regional central city along the Yangtze River in Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration.

20 10, the relocation and resettlement task of Chongqing Three Gorges immigrants has been fully completed. Wanzhou is the largest resettlement area in the Three Gorges reservoir area, with 263,000 immigrants, and one fifth of the immigrants in the Three Gorges reservoir area moved to Wanzhou. Wanzhou became the second largest city in Chongqing because it became the main immigrant place of Three Gorges immigrants and its scale expanded.

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After the founding of New China, 1992 established Wanxian City, which governs Longbao District, Tiancheng District, Wuqiao District, Kaixian County, liangping county County, Zhongxian County, Yunyang County, fengjie county County, Wushan County, Wuxi County and Chengkou County.

In order to build the Three Gorges Project, the central government decided to divide Chongqing, Fuling and Wanxian into three cities, and set up Chongqing, Fuling and Wanxian respectively. Wanzhou is the core area of the Three Gorges Project.

1997 17 On March 4th, Chongqing resumed the municipality directly under the Central Government, canceled Wanxian City, and established Wanxian Immigrant Development Zone and Wanxian District. In order to support the construction of the Three Gorges Project, many places in Wanzhou city were flooded, and residents were moved to non-flood areas to settle down.

On May 22nd 1998 was renamed Wanzhou District, and Wanxian Immigrant Development Zone was renamed Wanzhou Immigrant Development Zone. On June 25th, 2000, the State Council approved the cancellation of Wanzhou Immigration Development Zone. Zhongxian, Kaixian, Yunyang, Fengjie, Wushan, Wuxi and other counties in the former Wanzhou Immigration Development Zone were directly under the jurisdiction of Chongqing. After the completion of the Three Gorges Project, the Yangtze River section in Wanzhou will become Pinghu Gorge after water storage every winter.

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