On this day, 28 years ago, on June 18, 1997 (May 14, 1997 in the lunar calendar), Chongqing Municipality was officially listed. On the morning of June 18, 1997, more than 3500 representatives from all walks of life in Chongqing City held an unveiling meeting for the municipality directly under the Central Government. At 10 a.m., five signs symbolizing the sacred power of the party and the people: the Chongqing City Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Standing Committee of the Chongqing City People's Congress, the Chongqing City People's Government, the Chongqing City Political Consultative Conference, and the CPC Chongqing City Discipline Inspection Commission, accompanied by thunderous applause, emerged as the red silk slipped. On March 14, 1997, the Fifth Session of the Eighth National People's Congress passed the bill to establish Chongqing Municipality directly under the Central Government, empowering it to further leverage the location advantages, leading role, window role and radiating role of the central city to drive the economy and social development of the Southwest region and the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The historical mission of social development. Zhang Delin, Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, said in his speech: Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, with the support of brother provinces and cities, and relying on the city's 30 million people of all ethnic groups to deepen reform, expand opening up, be self-reliant, work hard, and unite as one, work hard, develop the Three Gorges, revitalize Chongqing, and build Chongqing into the economic center of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.