College of Chemistry is one of the earliest departments established at Chongqing Normal University, with a history of 70 years. Currently, the college offers 3 full-time undergraduate programs: Chemistry (teacher-training), Material Chemistry, and Polymer Materials and Engineering. It has a master's degree program in Chemistry as a first-level discipline, with four second-level disciplines: Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, and Physical Chemistry. It also has three off-catalog second-level disciplines for master's degrees: Nanophysics and Chemistry, Chemical Biology, and Photoelectric Materials Chemistry, as well as a professional master's degree program in Chemical Education. The discipline of Chemistry is a key discipline in Chongqing during the 13th and 14th Five-Year Plans, which also entered the top 1% in the ESI global rankings in May 2023. The Chemistry major is a national first-class undergraduate program and a first-class undergraduate program in higher education in Chongqing. The Material Chemistry major is a first-class undergraduate program in Chongqing. In recent years, the college has received numerous honors, including the Advanced Party Organization in the Education System of Chongqing, and the Advanced Collective in the Education System of Chongqing.
College of Chemistry currently has 66 faculty members, including 17 professors, 27 associate professors, 51 teachers with doctoral degrees, 3 doctoral supervisors, and 34 master's supervisors. It has 23 titles of provincial/ministerial-level talents, such as the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, members of the Education Ministry's Teaching Steering Committee, Academic and Technical Leaders and Reserve Candidates in Chongqing, Leading Talents in Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Chongqing, Leading Talents and Young Top-notch Talents in Innovation of the Chongqing High-level Talent Support Program, Leading Experts of the Chongqing Youth Expert Workstation, Bayu Professors and Toung Scholars, and so on. Many faculty members have studied abroad at foreign universities.
College of Chemistry has 7 provincial/ministerial-level scientific research platforms, including the Engineering Research Center for Active Substance Biotechnology (Ministry of Education), the Chongqing Key Laboratory of Green Synthesis and Applications, the Chongqing Key Laboratory of Inorganic Functional Materials, the International Cooperation Research and Development Center for Plate SCR Deactivation Catalyst Cleaning and Regeneration Technology, etc. It also has 2 provincial/ministerial-level teaching practice platforms, including the Chongqing Higher Education Chemistry Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center and the Chongqing University Students' Off-campus Practical Education Base. It has 5 provincial/ministerial-level innovation teams and groups, including the Inorganic Photoelectric Functional Materials Chongqing Innovative Entrepreneurship Demonstration Team, the Chongqing Postgraduate Supervisor Innovation Team, the Advanced Chemical Green Synthesis and Application Chongqing University Innovation Team, the Precision Nanosynthesis and Catalytic Application Chongqing University Innovation Research Group, and the Chongqing Youth Expert Workstation. In recent years, the faculty has undertaken more than 120 research projects at the provincial/ministerial levels, including 22 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. They have published 552 SCI papers (including more than 130 papers indexed in SCI Zone 1) in top journals such as Chem. Soc. Rev., Coord. Chem. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., and Nano Lett., and have won 4 Chongqing Science and Technology Awards. They have obtained 56 authorized invention patents and 5 utility model patents. The College focuses on applied basic research and technology transfer, with products such as the developed "C01-MZ Catalyst Regeneration Special Agent" approved as a high-tech product in Chongqing. They have developed products such as the Ganhuangcao sobering plant beverage, "Gun Gun Hongtun" purple grass silicon oil rolling ball, and Coenzyme Q10 vitamin E soft capsules, which have achieved good economic benefits and social effects.
College of Chemistry has long been committed to educational and teaching reform, with a focus on the cultivation of outstanding high-school teachers and top-notch innovative talents. In recent years, the College has undertaken more than 30 educational research and reform projects, including 15 provincial/ministerial-level projects (including 1 provincial major project, 4 key projects, and 1 Ministry of Education's Industry-University Cooperation Project). They have won 1 national teaching achievement award, 5 provincial/ministerial-level awards, and 4 university-level awards. They have published more than 100 papers on educational reform and edited 7 textbook. They have developed 9 first-class courses and courses with ideological and political education at the provincial and university levels. Teachers have won more than 20 awards in various levels of skills competitions, such as the Chongqing Ordinary Undergraduate Class Teaching Innovation Competition, and have won titles such as "Outstanding Young Teacher in Chongqing University", and "Teaching Star Award" in Chongqing Ordinary Undergraduate University.
College of Chemistry has long attached great importance to the cultivation of students' innovative and practical abilities. In recent years, students have been approved for more than 60 national and provincial projects under the "College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program". They have won more than 60 national and provincial awards, including first prizes in the National University Student Experimental Innovation Design Competition, the National Normal College Student Teaching Skills Competition, the "Challenge Cup" National College Student Extracurricular Academic and Technological Works Competition, and the "Internet+" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in Chongqing. They have published more than 180 high-level academic papers and have been granted more than 10 authorized invention patents. In recent years, the employment rate and postgraduate entrance examination rate of students have been among the best in the university.
College of Chemistry has been persisting in “two drives” in student management, i.e. “the Party drives league construction” and “Party construction drives student-related work”, forming a new pattern of student-related work with special characteristics based on the practical conditions of the College. The Party member commitment system and Party member "1+1" activities have become brand activities of the College, which have ever been reported by media such as People's Daily and China Education Daily. Furthermore, the College carries out scientific and technological practices relying on its advantageous specialties, having made great achievements. Extracurricular science popularization projects of students from the College have ever been reported by CCTV, Xinhua News Agency, and other media.
