CHONGQING, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyuon Monday asked southwest China's Chongqing municipality to make efforts to become a leading economic force in the country's underdeveloped western region.

    Hui made the remarks when he attended a meeting marking the tenth anniversary of the setting up of the Chongqing municipality in March 1997 when the city was approved as China's fourth centrally-administered municipality after Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin. Full story