Significant achievements have been made in urbanization construction in the past few decades, and now the continuous release of metropolitan area planning marks the entry of a new era of new urbanization construction. Recently, with the approval of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Chongqing Municipal People's Government and the Sichuan Provincial People's Government jointly issued the "Chongqing Metropolitan Area Development Plan", which is the first cross-provincial metropolitan area plan in the central and western regions.

According to the "Planning", the Chongqing metropolitan area includes 21 districts in the main metropolitan area of Chongqing and the entire administrative area of Guang'an City, Sichuan Province, with a total area of 35,000 square kilometers and a permanent population of 24.4 million in 2020. The "Planning" includes the entire area of Guang'an City in Sichuan Province, which is close to Chongqing in space and has deep economic integration, into the planning scope, making Guang'an the only prefecture-level city in the country that is included in the cross-provincial metropolitan area.

The "Planning" clearly states that by 2025, the development level of the Chongqing metropolitan area will reach a new level, the integrated development pattern of the surrounding districts (cities and counties) driven by the central city of Chongqing will basically take shape, the interconnectivity of infrastructure will be greatly improved, and the ability of collaborative innovation will be achieved. Major breakthroughs will be made, the ability of industrial cooperation will be significantly enhanced, the system and mechanism of intra-city development will be more complete, the level of co-construction and sharing of ecological environment and public services will be greatly improved, and an international, green, intelligent, and modern Chongqing metropolitan area will be initially built; by 2035 , the city-wide integration of key areas in the Chongqing metropolitan area has been fully realized, the comprehensive economic strength, resource allocation capacity, and the competitiveness of market players have jumped significantly, and a modern Chongqing metropolitan area with strong competitiveness has been built. Keywords: infrastructure, infrastructure construction, domestic engineering news, planning and investment

Zhu Jiang, deputy director of the Chongqing Development and Reform Commission, said at a press conference on the interpretation of the "Planning" that the "Planning" fully connects with the Chengdu metropolitan area in terms of infrastructure, industrial layout, technological innovation, etc., and promotes "dual-core" linkage and "double circles". Interact and jointly support the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle. At the same time, the "Planning" highlights the exploration of the reform of the appropriate separation of economic zones and administrative regions. Taking the breaking of administrative barriers as a breakthrough, it strives to promote the Chongqing metropolitan area to achieve substantial breakthroughs in planning, policy coordination, co-construction and sharing, etc. , Accumulate experience in the development of urbanization in metropolitan areas. Editor / Xu Shengpeng