CHONGQING

N29 33 46.98 E106 33 5.3424

'It is just after dawn, but the sun remains hidden behind a thick haze. The giant movement of humanity that is Chongqing is about to get into full swing, working, building, consuming, discarding, developing. If today is typical, builders will lay 137,000 square metres of new floor space for residential blocks, shopping centres and factories.

The economy will grow by 99 million yuan. There will be 568 deaths, 813 births and the arrival of 1,370 people from the countryside - each year, the city limits are pushed further outwards as the urban population grows by half a million, the equivalent of all the people in Luxembourg being added to the municipal register.'

'The Invisible City' - Jonathan Watts

The Guardian

By Jonathan Watts The Guardian and Mick Brown

The Telegraph Photography & Editing Andy Bosma

'Chongqing; a city that has

nothing to fear but itself'

'It is just after dawn, but the sun remains hidden behind

a thick haze. The giant movement of humanity that is Chongqing is about to get into full swing, working, building, consuming, discarding, developing. If today is typical, builders will lay 137,000 square metres of new floor space for residential blocks, shopping centres and factories.

The economy will grow by 99 million yuan. There will be 568 deaths, 813 births and the arrival of 1,370 people from the countryside - each year, the city limits are pushed further outwards as the urban population grows by half a million, the equivalent of all the people in Luxembourg being added to the municipal register.'

'The Invisible City' - Jonathan Watts The Guardian

Chongqing -situated in southwest-central China at the

confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers- was giving

its name, which means 'Double Celebration' by Guanzong,

the third emperor of the Southern Song dynasty in 1189

'I had expected to find luxury consumer goods in Beijing and Shanghai, but I was taken aback to walk through the Monument to Liberation square in Chongqing (a city improbably twinned with Leicester) and find the largest Cartier store I had ever seen. A department store next door was wholly given over to concessions for Western luxury goods – Boss, Bulgari, Mulberry. In Ermenegildo Zegna the young sales assistant was as supercilious as any in Sloane Street, but spoke better English. The handmade crocodile shoes at £4,000 a pair, sir? They had already sold two pairs to local businessmen. In the perfume section, butterflies – real ones – fluttered in the air.'

'Chongqing, the world's fastest growing city'

- Mick Brown The Telegraph

A young bride making her entrance at the

conference hall of the luxury Chongqing intercontinental hotel in Jiefangbei

Workers break away bricks and concrete

in the centre of Jaingbei to find rebar

and other metals for salvage

A 'bang bang men' -porters who bear the city's weight on their shoulders- counts his money

after a job at a underground market in Sigongli

As result of the government’s ‘Go West’ policy, city residents have seen their incomes rise 66% -almost three times that of their country cousins

'I had expected to find luxury consumer goods in Beijing and Shanghai, but I was taken aback to walk through the Monument to Liberation square in Chongqing (a city improbably twinned with Leicester) and find the largest Cartier store I had ever seen.

A department store next door was wholly given over to concessions for Western luxury goods – Boss, Bulgari, Mulberry.

In Ermenegildo Zegna the young sales assistant was as supercilious as any in Sloane Street, but spoke better English. The handmade crocodile shoes at £4,000

a pair, sir? They had already sold two pairs to local businessmen. In the perfume section, butterflies – real ones – fluttered in the air.'

'Chongqing, the world's fastest growing city' - Mick Brown The Telegraph

'I had expected to find luxury consumer goods in Beijing and Shanghai, but I was taken aback to walk through the Monument to Liberation square in Chongqing (a city improbably twinned with Leicester) and find the largest Cartier store I had ever seen. A department store next door was wholly given over to concessions for Western luxury goods – Boss, Bulgari, Mulberry. In Ermenegildo Zegna the young sales assistant was as supercilious as any in Sloane Street, but spoke better English. The handmade crocodile shoes at £4,000 a

pair, sir? They had already sold two pairs to local businessmen. In the perfume section, butterflies – real ones – fluttered in the air.'

'Chongqing, the world's fastest growing city'

- Mick Brown The Telegraph

The Lifan motorcycle factory exports to 51

countries and was listed in"Top Enterprises in

China" of Forbes and ranked the 88th.

Old streets with buildings constructed on mountain slopes (diaojiaolou) peculiar to Chongqing, go down overnight to make place for new apartment flats

An office clerk takes a afternoon nap on

a scorching hot day with a temperature

of 104 degrees Fahrenheit

'Chongqing; a city that has

nothing to fear but itself'

consists of various articles and reviews about China's municipal Chongqing. The articles have been merged as one and supplemented with photos that documents the urban transition in one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in China. The collected materials have been used for project-based educational purposes in collaboration with students of the Chongqing Technology and Business University (CTBU) and Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2014.

The Lifan motorcycle factory (14,800 employees) exports to 51 countries and

was listed in "Top Enterprises in China" of Forbes and ranked the 88th.

Chongqing -situated in southwest-central China

at the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers

- was giving its name, which means 'Double Celebration' by Guanzong, the third emperor of

the Southern Song dynasty in 1189

Pork on sale in a supermarket at Huangjueping. Surging pork prices are pushing China's consumer prices higher and reflect the excessive money supply in the economy

A young bride making her entrance at the

conference hall of the luxury Chongqing intercontinental hotel in Jiefangbei

'Chongqing; a city that has nothing to fear but itself'

'Chongqing; a city that has nothing to fear but itself' consists of various articles and reviews about China's municipal Chongqing. The articles have been merged as one and supplemented with photos that documents the urban transition in one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in China.

The collected materials have been used for project-based educational purposes in collaboration with students of the Chongqing Technology and Business University (CTBU) and Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2014.

CHONGQING

N29 33 46.98 E106 33 5.3424