| Commodity market is an important carrier for Chongping to become the shopping capital and center of the business in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. Since Chongqing became a municipality directly under the Central Government, the commodity market has been developing rapidly and its annual turnover steadily stays as the top one in the west of China. Together with the diverse types and large number, a complete commodity market system is basically formed. With the improvement of Chongqing’s strategic position, the coming of the time for outer space of the city, the building of the logistics base of the "Three Bases and Four Docklands", as well as the establishment of districts in national level, like Lingjiang New Areas and Xiyong Free Tax Zone, commodity markets in Chongqing show great promise for the future.Because of the lack of macro guidance, the types of the commodity market tend to be identical and the regional differences become obvious, which have impeded the city’s economic and social development at the same time with the rapid development in recent years. The commodity markets in main city districts also face hard problems, such as the excessive accumulation in the inner areas of the city, exacerbated urban congestion, limited space for development, uneconomical land use, which have largely restricted the enhance of the development. Therefore, the need to study about the spatial distribution of large commodity markets in whole city, especially in the main districts, is urgent.Firstly, the paper systematically introduces the theories and research findings about spatial distribution of commodity markets at home and abroad; secondly, it sums up the development history of commodity market in Chongqing since the found of the People Republic of China, expounds the recent development of large commodity markets in Chongqing and as well as its position in the western region and the whole country based on its overall size, growth rate, market types, spatial distribution. The paper summarizes the development characteristics of large commodity markets, dissects the main problems during the development; Then, the paper predicts the overall trend of the large commodity market in the main districts in Chongqing, comprehensively determines the main development type in ten years in main district of the city with the related prediction of the scale of market and land needed by separately analyzing the demand of regional industrial development and market consumer; Fourthly, the paper identifies6distributions for large commodity market developments located in United Village-West Wing, Double Blessing-White City Station, West Peng and South Peng in the east, Ying long, Longsheng, etc. by thoroughly analyzing the traffic in main city districts, physical geography, spatial structure, land distribution, and land prices; Finally, the paper carefully considers the general rules, land demands, and characteristics of the area, and respectively makes concrete recommendations for the location and layout of each key type of the market categories. |