Chongqing Normal University was founded in 1954 with a traceable history dating back to the Public Eastern Sichuan Normal University in 1906. It has three campuses, respectively located in the Chongqing University Town, Shapingba District and Beibei District with total land coverage of 2688 mu. The University is known as a national model green unit, a municipal civilized unit and a municipal garden-like unit, municipal forest campuses and municipal campuses of beauty. It is a public university approved by the Academic Degrees Committee under the State Council of China to confer bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees and doctor’s degrees. Through over six decades’ construction, the University has formed a mode driven by two wheels, i.e. normal education and non-normal education, a “troika” comprising elementary education, vocational education and international Chinese education, and a pattern featured by coordinated development of “three plates” – cultural inheritance and innovation, policy-making consulting and public services, and technological problem solving and application conversion. The University has three national bases, namely Chinese Education Base of the Office of Overseas Chinese Affairs under the State Council, National Key Training Base of Vocational Education Teachers under the Ministry of Education, and National Teachers Training Base (Chongqing) for International Chinese Promotion. It is one of the first two “Model Bases of Sino-German (Chongqing) Cooperation on Vocational Education”, as well as a “special education base” of the Ministry of Education and the National Development and Reform Commission. In addition, it also has Chongqing Vocational Education Assessment and Teacher Development Coordination and Innovation Center and several municipal model training bases, including regular middle school and primary school teachers training base, kindergarten teachers training base, special education teachers training base, vocational education teachers training base, wind music teachers training base, among others. Besides, some of the first ministry-university jointly constructed colleges are also established relying on the University. Such colleges include Chongqing Journalism College, Chongqing Tourism College, Chongqing College of Music, Chongqing Preschool Education College and Chongqing Special Education College. Following the trend of internationalization, the University has been persisting in open-up operation. It has established sound partnerships with education institutes in more than 30 countries and regions, including Russia, America, Australia and Britain for Sino-foreign joint development, cooperative research, mutual visits of teachers and students, or cooperation and exchange in other forms. It has established overseas education institutes, including Confucius Institute at Education Institute of Rwanda University in Rwanda, Confucius Institute at University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka, Confucius Institute at Edge Hill University in UK, and Confucius Institute at Troy University in US, Widyakartika University Chinese Normal College in Indonesia. Also, the University facilitates its “CNU Foreign Students Education Program” to enroll students from all over the world, as a recipient of governmental scholarship, scholarship for Confucius institutes and mayoral scholarship from Chongqing People’s Government for foreign students.

重庆师范大学创办于1954年，办学历史可追溯到1906年创立的官立川东师范学堂。共有大学城、沙坪坝区和北碚三个校区，校园总面积2688亩，是全国绿化模范单位、重庆市文明单位、重庆市园林式单位、重庆市森林校园、重庆市美丽校园。学校是中国国务院学位委员会批准的可授予学士、硕士和博士学位的公立综合性大学。经过六十余年的建设，学校已形成了师范教育和非师范教育“两轮驱动”，基础教育、职业教育和汉语国际教育“三驾马车”，文化传承与创新、决策咨询与公共服务、科技攻关与应用转化“三大板块”协同发展的特色办学格局。

学校拥有“国务院侨务办公室华文教育基地”“教育部全国职教师资培训重点建设基地”“国家汉语国际推广师资培训基地（重庆）”等三个国家级基地，是全国先期两个“中德（重庆）职教合作示范基地”之一，是中国教育部和国家发改委“特教基地学校”。拥有重庆市职业教育测评与师资培养协同创新中心和重庆市普通中小学教师、幼儿教育教师、特殊教育教师、职教师资、管乐师资等多个市级培训示范基地。全国首批部校共建“重庆新闻学院”，以及重庆旅游学院、重庆音乐学院、重庆幼儿师范学院、重庆特殊教育学院也依托我校设立。

学校把握教育国际化趋势，坚持开放办学，已与俄罗斯、美国、澳大利亚、英国等30多个国家和地区的教育机构建立友好合作关系，开展中外联合培养、合作科研、师生互访等各种形式的合作与交流。在海外建立了卢旺达大学孔子学院、斯里兰卡凯拉尼亚大学孔子学院、英国知山大学孔子学院、美国特洛伊大学孔子学院、巴布亚新内亚科技大学孔子学院和印度尼西亚智星大学汉语师范学院等办学机构。学校大力推行“留学重师计划”，面向全球招收留学生来校学习，是中国政府奖学金、孔子学院奖学金和重庆市人民政府外国留学生市长奖学金的接收学校。