Chongqing saw about 2.66 million passenger trips during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival holiday that ended Saturday, according to the local Culture and Tourism Commission.
As a traditional industrial hub in southwest China as large as Austria, the mountain city used to be famous for its auto and manufacturing industries.
During the first five months of the current year, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality exported 40,000 automobiles, an increase of 24.2 percent year-on-year (check) with an export value of 2.53 billion yuan ($357.65 million), an increase of 48.1 percent.
On June 22, Liangjiang New Area in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality awarded plates to the first batch of institutions to become partners of the area's national overseas talent offshore innovation and entrepreneurship base.
Taking the opportunity of the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, Chongqing Port Logistics Group and Sichuan Port and Shipping Investment Group signed a cooperation agreement on June 17.
Liangjiang New Area in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality has held an online signing ceremony where it signed 23 key projects with a total investment value of 20.23 billion yuan ($2.86 billion).
The Chongqing Liangjiang Star, the nation's first carrier rocket designed and built by private enterprise, blasted into space from a launch center in northwestern China two years after the project began.
The first service apartments in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality were officially opened in Liangjiang New Area on June 16.
The 2020 Chongqing International Auto Exhibition kicked off at Chongqing International Expo Center in Liangjiang New Area, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality on June 13, with the event set to run until June 21.
Liangjiang recently held its first online talent attraction event, which saw recruitment notices posted by 17 postdoctoral workshops and 12 scientific research institutes from Liangjiang's postdoctoral entrepreneurship and innovation park.
John Edwards, the UK trade commissioner for China, praised Chongqing over its rise as a burgeoning center in intelligent manufacturing.