Chongqing Radio and TV University, founded in 1979, is an independent institution of higher learning sponsored by Chongqing Municipal People's Government and approved by the Ministry of Education. It is the modern distance education center of Chongqing higher education and the guidance center of Chongqing community education service. Chongqing Radio and TV University is an institution of higher learning that takes modern information technology as the main means, and adopts radio, television, written and audio-visual teaching materials, computer networks and other media to carry out modern distance open education.
Chongqing Radio and TV University, with the integration of distance education and vocational education as the path, the innovation of system and mechanism as the guide, and the support of educational informatization, now offers more than 70 undergraduate majors, including open education, general higher vocational education and adult education, with more than 65,438 students of all kinds and 3,000 students, and has trained more than 300,000 college graduates, becoming an important base for training high-quality technical and skilled talents in Chongqing.