The Chinese government ordered that all agencies move to Chongqing and continue resisting Japanese aggression.

Chongqing University covers a total area of 5,500 mu (about 178 hectares), with 1.60 million square meters of construction space.

The university sets up 14 specially appointed professor posts under the "Yangtze River Scholar Award Program".

Moreover, Chongqing University has constructed the distance education center, multi-media classrooms of large scale and interactive audio-visual classrooms, labs or training centers in cooperation with world-famous enterprises such as Siemens, Microsoft, IBM, Rockwell, Omron, etc.

The China Education Research Network (CERNET) Chongqing Central Node is set up in the library.

With green mountains surrounded and the Jialing River flowing by, the four campuses are set amidst delightful sceneries and awarded the title of “Garden University” by Chongqing Municipality.

[22] It has established inter-university exchange links with over 100 institutions of higher education in 20 countries such as the USA, England, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, Russia, etc.