As a national development and opening-up new area, Liangjiang New Area in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality has been extremely busy and productive. It has become home to the China-Singapore (Chongqing) Demonstration Initiative on Strategic Connectivity, a mass entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration base, a national service trade pilot area, national innovative demonstration zone and a free trade zone.
Serving as the core area for the China-Singapore (Chongqing) Demonstration Initiative on Strategic Connectivity – as well as the China (Chongqing) Pilot Free Trade Zone -- Liangjiang is endowed with advantages in its development, opening-up and pilot zone construction.
John Edwards, the UK trade commissioner for China, praised Chongqing over its rise as a burgeoning center in intelligent manufacturing.