In 2015, growth in Chongqing municipality was 11 percent, the fastest in the country, while growth in Liaoning province in the rustbelt northeast, was 3 percent, the country's lowest.
For this year, Chongqing is eyeing 10 percent growth and Liaoning is aiming for 6 percent.
At the enclave in December, leaders pledged to make monetary policy more flexible, expand the budget deficit to support the economy, and push forward "supply-side reform."
The central bank may be reluctant to cut interest rates or banks' reserve requirement ratios in the near term because of concerns over the impact on the yuan, but it remains under pressure to loosen policy further, policy insiders said.
"We think the central bank should ease policy, because China is a big economy and its monetary policy should focus on its own economic conditions," said the government economist.