The deputy director of Chongqing Port Authority, Yang Dalun, told a leisure industry conference recently that Chongqing government plans to build 11 yachting centres by the end of the current five-year planning period. Six of them will be located in the city proper, while the remaining five will be in the Three Gorges Reservoir.

Mr Yang said that the government wants to build an entire new yachting industry, incorporating design, manufacture and interior decoration, along with precision equipment manufacture, maintenance and a yacht trading centre.