Chongqing Jiaotong University is a multidisciplinary university with distinctive traffic characteristics and mainly engaged in work. In 1951, according to Chairman Mao's instructions, in order to build Kangzang Highway and Southwest China, the Southwest Military and Political Commission presided over by Deng Xiaoping founded a school, then known as Southwest Transportation College. In 1960, Chongqing Jiaotong College was established. Subsequently, the Department of Civil Engineering of Chengdu Institute of Technology, the Department of Metallurgy of Sichuan Metallurgical College, and the Department of Hydraology of Wuhan Institute of Water Transport were merged one after another. In 2000, the school was transferred from the Ministry of Transport to Chongqing to jointly build a university for the provincial department. In 2006, the school was renamed Chongqing Jiaotong University and added as a doctoral degree awarding unit.