Chongqing University University, referred to as CQU, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of education. It is jointly built by the Ministry of education, Chongqing Municipality and the State Administration of science, technology and industry for national defense. It has been selected into the national "world class university construction (a)", "211 project", "985 Project", "2011 plan", "111 plan", excellent engineer education and training plan, and excellent legal talent education and training plan One belt, one road to China, the National University and the Chinese government scholarship to the Chinese students' receiving institutions; the outstanding university alliance, the Sino Russian Engineering University Alliance, the one belt University Alliance, the Changjiang Volga River University Alliance and the CDIO Engineering Education Alliance unit.Chongqing University was founded by Liu Xiang in 1929. It was approved as a provincial university in 1935. In 1942, it was renamed National Chongqing University. In 1942, the University became a comprehensive university of Arts, science, industry, commerce and forensic medicine. After the adjustment of departments and colleges in 1952, the University became a multi-disciplinary university directly under the Ministry of higher education. In 1960, it was designated as a national key university. After the reform and opening up, the university has carried out a comprehensive restoration, adjustment, reform and construction, and has become an engineering oriented, multidisciplinary and coordinated development university. In 1996, it became the key construction University of the national "211 Project", and in 1999, it was listed as the key construction University of the national "985 Project". In May 2000, the former Chongqing Jianzhu University, Chongqing Jianzhu college and Chongqing University were merged to form a new Chongqing University.As of March 2020, Chongqing University has 7 departments, 36 colleges and 96 undergraduate majors; there are more than 48000 students, including more than 21000 master's and doctoral students, more than 25000 undergraduate students and more than 1800 foreign students; there are more than 5300 faculty members, including more than 2800 teachers; the campus covers an area of more than 5200 mu, including four campuses a, B, C and Huxi, with a building area of nearly 170 square meters It has a collection of 4.8813 million books.