Chongqing Institute of Green and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (hereinafter referred to as 'Chongqing Academy'), is a research institution directly affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, jointly established by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the former Executive Office of the State Council Three Gorges Project Construction Committee, and the People's Government of Chongqing Municipality. It began to build in March 2011, received official reply of the State Commission Office of Public Sectors Reform on July 26, 2012, and was formally established on October 9, 2014, following a three-party acceptance inspection. Chongqing Academy consists of the Institute of Electronic Information Technology, the Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing Technology, the Three Gorges Institute of Ecological and Environmental Research, and the Institute of Biomedical and Health Research (under establishment). As of the end of 2021, Chongqing Academy has over 400 employees.

Chongqing Academy was guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, aligned itself with General Secretary Xi Jinping's call for 'Four Leading ' and 'Two Accelerations and One Effort'. It positions itself as the main force in national strategic scientific and technological capabilities, adheres to the responsibilities as a 'national team' and 'national personnel', emphasizes its mission and focus on core duties, gorges ahead with initiative, and accomplishes the positive action. To achieve high-level technological self-reliance and build a technologically strong nation, Chongqing Academy will continuously make new and greater contributions.

Chongqing Academy is driven by significant demands, including ensuring the ecological security of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and fostering industrial upgrading in the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle. Leveraging interdisciplinary advantages in the fields of ecology, intelligent manufacturing, and information technology, Chongqing Academy arranges 'River-Reservoir Ecological Intelligent Technology' and 'Carbon-Based Photoelectric Detector' as key research directions, and sets emerging frontier direction, including 'Edge Intelligence Technology,' 'Space Additive Manufacturing,' 'Nanopore Single-Molecule Sequencing,' and 'Organic Solar Cells.' Chongqing Academy aims to build a national-level green intelligent technology innovation platform supported by big data and intelligence, playing a crucial role in supporting national strategies.

Chongqing Academy emphasizes original innovation and strategic technological research and development, achieving a series of symbolic achievements. It conducts key research on facial recognition technology, and the developed face recognition system is widely used in important areas such as airports and banks. Chongqing Academy also constructs the theory and method of modeling, reduction and analysis for high-dimensional sparse big data, conducting research in the direction of latent semantic analysis. Additionally, Chongqing Academy has developed wide-band high-absorption carbon nanocomposites, which has been applied in radiometers, spectrometers, aerospace calibration blackbody and other products. Its optical and space environment adaptability and other indicators have reached the international leading level, and it has been installed in FY-3 and FY-4 meteorological satellites. Chongqing Academy has carried out research on large-area graphene preparation technology and developed graphene uncooled broadband infrared detector chips. Taking the large reservoirs in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River as the object, the carbon cycle monitoring method of large reservoirs was innovated, the greenhouse gas monitoring network of large reservoirs in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River is constructed, and the carbon accounting method of large hydropower projects in China was proposed. In the field of space in-orbit additive manufacturing technology, a space in-orbit high-precision 3D printer was developed. Chongqing Academy has also conducted research on printable flexible solar cell materials and devices, developing high-efficiency polymer solar cells. Breaking through the principle of traditional BOD detection instrument, a BODq rapid detection system based on microbial electricity production was constructed, and a BODq rapid detector with independent intellectual property rights was developed. Based on the detection of key elements of water ecological environment and the analysis of water ecological environment driven by big data integrating domain knowledge, automatic monitoring equipment and system were developed. The proposed scheme of 'air-space-ground 'stereoscopic monitoring standard for atmospheric combined pollution is proposed, and the storage and management platform of 'air-space-ground 'multidimensional data is completed, which enriches the understanding of the unique mechanism of secondary atmospheric pollution in high humidity environment in Southwest China. Chongqing Academy has carried out research on the protection and management of the water-level-fluctuating zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir, analyzed the ecological environment problems of the water-level-fluctuating zone of the Three Gorges Reservoir, and constructed the innovation and green development model of governance technology. Chongqing Academy successfully developed a terahertz near-field nano-scanning imaging platform based on phase-locked amplification technology and PID feedback control technology. The prototype development and system software development of the sub-cellular diffraction limit resolution dual-mode parallel coherence tomography analyzer was completed. Based on homomorphic encryption privacy computing, a privacy-preserving naive Bayesian classifier without interaction in the classification stage is implemented. With breakthrough of the high-precision preparation technology of nanopores, Chongqing Academy developed a nanopore processing and manufacturing instrument with independent intellectual property rights, and successfully built a single-molecule control system for solid nanopores to distinguish four single-base DNA molecules, providing technical reserves and core systems for ensuring national biosafety. A smart citrus orchard in mountainous areas was build, realizing the functions of unmanned intelligent control of agricultural operation equipment, intelligent scheduling, remote monitoring, and intelligent citrus growth analysis.

Chongqing Academy emphasizes the transformation of achievements, constructing a market-oriented rapid transfer and transformation model of innovation achievements and creating a national technology transfer demonstration institution. It has organized and implemented the transfer and transformation of a batch of scientific and technological achievements, including large area single-layer graphene film preparation technology, face recognition technology, BOD rapid detection technology, advanced power storage device supercapacitor, attracting nearly 1 billion RMB in social investment. Cloudwalk Technology officially landed on the SSE STAR MARKET in April 2022. Chongqing Graphene Technology has built a large-scale graphene film production line. Chongqing CAS Supercap Technology has developed a double-layer supercapacitor with a rated voltage exceeding 3.2V and achieved mass production. Chongqing Zhongke Dexin Environmental Protection Technology has realized mass production of the BOD-Q water quality tester.

On April 4, 2018, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the People's Government of Chongqing Municipality signed a strategic cooperation agreement to jointly build a new type of scientific and educational production and research integration development alliance. The two parties jointly established the Chongqing School, University of Chinese Academy of Science (hereinafter referred to as 'UCAS Chongqing'), which integrates scientific research, education and social services. UCAS Chongqing is a secondary college directly under the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the direct leadership of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is also under the guidance and management of the Chongqing Municipal Education Commission.

Relying on the construction of Chongqing Academy, UCAS Chongqing and Chongqing Academy implement a 'two-brand, one-team' system, highly integrating in terms of management system, faculty team, training system, and scientific research.

Facing the future, Chongqing Academy focuses on cutting-edge science and technology, aligns with national needs, leverages its role as a strategic technological force, and insists on the deep integration of scientific research and talent cultivation. It strives to cultivate high-level talents that meet the needs of economic and social development, promotes industrial development through science and education, and facilitates the transfer and transformation of scientific and educational achievements, providing technological support for social and economic development.