Seventy-six years ago today, on November 30, 1949 (October 11, 1949 lunar calendar), Chongqing was liberated. When the People's Liberation Army entered Chongqing, the people welcomed it. On the eve of the liberation of Chongqing, the remnants of the Kuomintang were scrambling for their lives. Chiang Kai-shek fled to Chengdu in a hurry on the morning of the 30th, while Yan Xishan and Zhang Qun'er had fled to Chengdu as early as the 28th. Most of the other bandit leaders fled to Chengdu, and a small number fled to Taiwan. Although Chennault's "Civil Aviation Team" used all its aircraft to travel between Yurong all day and night, senior bandit officials who fled for their lives for fear of falling behind staged a tense battle at the airport. According to a report by Reuters on November 29: When the last plane at Jiulongpo Airport fled, about 30 passengers abandoned their luggage and scrambled to board the plane, but another 27 passengers did not squeeze on the plane. On land, the Chengdu-Chongqing highway was crowded with vehicles and traffic was blocked, with hundreds of vehicles waiting to cross the ferry near the Neijiang River. At the same time as the bandit officials fled, the remaining bandit soldiers also scrambled for their lives. According to the Associated Press, most of the fleeing bandit soldiers were wearing straw shoes or bare feet, and 30% were still wearing summer military uniforms. "The soldiers constantly ordered the foreign coachmen to pull their things, and the sliders carried weapons and ammunition. The military vehicles on the thoroughfare were crowded, and car accidents were common." On the afternoon of November 30, 1949, the People's Liberation Army advancing towards Chongqing, after occupying Jiangjin, Shunjiangchang, Yudong Town, Nanquan and Mudong Town on the south bank of the Yangtze River, took advantage of the victory and crossed the Yangtze River by force from the above places, and liberated Chongqing in the afternoon. One of the enemy fled westward, and our army was chasing after it. Attachment: Introduction to Chongqing at the time of liberation. Chongqing, which was liberated by the People's Liberation Army on November 30, is the largest political, military, economic and cultural center in the southwestern provinces. After the People's Liberation Army captured Guangzhou on October 14, 1949, the remnants of the Kuomintang bandits hurriedly moved to Chongqing with their pseudo-central government signboard in an attempt to stage a final resistance on the southwest mainland of China. But less than 50 days after the liberation of Guangzhou, the largest political and economic center in the southwest was liberated. Chongqing covers an area of 300 square kilometers and has a population of about 1.10 million. When the Jialing River enters the mouth of the Yangtze River, the city is like a peninsula. The land and water confluence, the ships trace the Yangtze River up to Yibin, and go down the river through Wanxian County to reach Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai; along the Jialing River, the steamers can reach Hejiang and Nanchong. In terms of land, the Sichuan-Guizhou Road reaches Guiyang in the south, the Chuanxiang Road can go out of Hunan in the east, and the Chengdu-Chongqing Road in the west can turn south into Xikang and north out of Shaanxi. Chongqing is the main hub for transshipment of goods entering and leaving the Yangtze River in Shaanxi, Gan, Sichuan, Kang, Yunnan, and Guizhou. Therefore, the prosperity of commerce is the crown of the southwest. The export goods are tung oil, bristles, medicinal materials and salt as the bulk. There are more than 600 industries, including clothing manufacturing, chemical industry, match industry, paper printing industry, and machinery industry. There are 15 large-scale machine industries, 12 chemical industries, 16 yarn mills and textile factories, and more than 37,000 employees. In terms of education, there are 7 national Chongqing University, National Women's Normal University, and Provincial Sichuan Institute of Education. There are more than 80 secondary schools, normal schools and vocational schools, and 279 primary schools.