The Chongqing bombing should be an unforgettable memory for everyone in Chongqing. 1September 1939,1May 1940 and July 1940, the Institute of Technology was damaged three times by the indiscriminate bombing of Japanese planes, and sometimes hundreds of bombs were dropped at a time, which was devastated. Although it was repaired with the joint efforts of teachers and students, it seems that the burning pain of blood and fire still exists on the joint line of old and new materials.
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Chongqing University, alumni donated money to build a big bombing monument behind the building of Institute of Technology, which is a stone tablet made of a broken wall. The stone tablet is engraved with Yin in gold, which records the story of the big bonfire.
In the course of the whole institute of technology, every footprint has left a deep trace. 1935,10 In June, Sichuan Institute of Technology was merged into Chongqing University, and Chongqing University founded the Institute of Technology, which consists of Civil Engineering Department, Mining and Metallurgy Department and Electromechanical Department. In the same year, Chongqing University North was identified as Sichuan Provincial University. In February, 65438, the Institute of Technology added the Department of Chemical Engineering, and enrolled students the following year.
194 1 in the spring of, in the Engineering College of Chongqing University, the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering was divided into the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Civil Engineering was divided into the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture. The College of Engineering has expanded from four departments to six departments.
1952 after the major adjustment of departments, there is only one college left-Engineering College. In those difficult days, the unyielding engineering college building propped up a sky. Later, college students built a memorial to broken walls's bombing next to the Institute of Technology building. This monument tells the story of the bonfire years together with the building of the Institute of Technology. As a witness of this painful history, the Engineering College Building of Chongqing University.
Under the rusty cast iron window frame hung by the Institute of Technology, a vague number is engraved: 1935. This memory reminds the builders of their works in those years, and this number also represents a birthday that can't speak but will always think.