Chongqing University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. It is a high-level research-oriented comprehensive university focusing on the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Project". It is also the national "First-class University Construction University (Class A)". There are four campuses: A, B, C and Huxi. The campus environment is elegant, showing profound connotations, enjoying the reputation of "Jialing and the Yangtze River converge in Chongqing, and humanities and science are mutually beneficial and of great significance".

The school was founded on 1929. At the beginning of the school, the sages put forward the mission of running a school, which is basically consistent with the functions of modern universities, "researching academics, cultivating talents and helping the world", and established the school motto of "being diligent and thrifty, studying hard and loving the country", which has become the spiritual core of important people from generation to generation.

The school carries forward the excellent school spirit of "unity, diligence, truth-seeking and innovation" and the excellent study style of "seeking knowledge, seeking perfection, truth-seeking and innovation", and adheres to the school-running concept of "taking root in Chongqing, based in southwest China, facing the west, serving the whole country and going global", and the school-running concept of "spreading the news of southwest China and creating first-class universities" to further promote "world-class universities and first-class disciplines"