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In order to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and demonstrate the tremendous changes that have taken place in our country's economy, society and people's lives over the past 70 years, the People's Publishing House Working Committee of the China Publishing Association has made preliminary plans to officially publish and distribute the "Photo China 70 Years" series on the eve of October 2019. The People's Publishing House will guide and coordinate the compilation of the series, and plans to publish one volume for each province, autonomous region, and municipality directly under the Central Government. Among them, the compilation and publication of "70 Years of Photo China·Chongqing Volume" (hereinafter referred to as "Chongqing Volume") is jointly undertaken by Chongqing Daily Newspaper Group, Chongqing Local History Research Association and Chongqing Publishing Group. This book was written from 1949 to 2019. It uses a combination of pictures and text to review the vicissitudes of Chongqing's development over the past 70 years, with pictures as the main component and illustrations as supplements. The selection of pictures in the book is based on the characteristics of Chongqing, facing ordinary people and grassroots, adhering to the perspective of ordinary people, showing the profound changes in Chongqing's city appearance and the profound changes brought by social and economic development to people's clothing, food, housing and transportation, reflecting the social and people's livelihood of Chongqing in a specific period.