Take the cable car across the Yangtze River in Chongqing and you'll get a sense of just how big this city has become …. The river frontage is as impressive as any of the major cities around the world with skyscrapers of the central business district, jostling for position alongside plush hotels, busy restaurants and traditional bustling squares full of locals and tourists.
You also get a sense of its location… at the meeting point of two major rivers – the Yangtze and the Jialing … the city sprawling across gorges and plateaus, and eventually in the distance, you can just make out stunning countryside.
20 million people live and work in the municipality … that's 20 million who now, with the building of the moderately prosperous socie
