Chongqing technology and business university was founded in 1952, and was formed by the merger of the former Yuzhou University and the former Chongqing Business School in 2002. It is a high-level applied research university of finance and economics with disciplines of economy, management, literature, engineering, law, science, art, etc. It is also a national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Universities in the Midwest" and a university with international humanistic characteristics in Chongqing.