The inauguration ceremony of Chongqing University Fuling Hospital was held on April 21, 2022. Shu Lichun, Secretary of CQU CPC Committee, Wang Zhijie, Secretary of CPC Fuling District Committee, and Liu Zhong, Deputy Secretary and Head of the People's Government of Fuling District co-inaugurated Chongqing University Fuling Hospital. Top officials of Chongqing University including Feng Yedong, Deng Shaojiang, and Li Jian, and top officials of Fuling District, including Li Jingyao, Yu Xianbin, Li Xueyi and Liu Jiasheng, showed up at the ceremony. The inauguration ceremony was presided over by Zhang Yu, Deputy Head of the People's Government of Fuling District. Liu Zhong and Deng Shaojiang delivered a speech respectively on behalf of the People's Government of Fuling District and Chongqing University.

In his speech, Liu Zhong said that the cooperation between a first-rate university and a first-rate local hospital would better serve the needs to complement each other's advantages and achieve a win-win result. CPC Fuling District Committee and Fuling District People's Government will work with Chongqing University and carry out deeper practical cooperation of a higher level with a wider coverage in areas including scientific and technological innovation, achievements transformation and talent introduction, so as to bolster the building of CQU Fuling Hospital into a high-standard research and teaching hospital and the building of Chongqing University into a "Double-First-Rate" university, and expedite the construction of the regional medical center and high-quality living demonstration area in Fuling.

Deng Shaojiang said that the inauguration of CQU Fuling Hospital was a good thing and a practical thing to strengthen university-local government cooperation and university-hospital integration, and played a decisive role in realizing the win-win relation among the university, local government and the hospital. Chongqing University will continue to give substantial support to the development of its medical disciplines, expedite the construction of a system that features integration of medicine, engineering, science and arts disciplines and coordinated development of medicine, teaching and research. It will fully utilize its resource advantages in disciplines, platforms and talents to drive the overall improvement of the disciplinary level, scientific research capacity and comprehensive strength of the hospital, in an ultimate effort to spur and support the high-quality development of CQU Fuling Hospital. Deng went on to express his hope that CQU Fuling Hospital would get actively involved in development of Chongqing University, make effort to build a first-rate hospital and strive for excellence, so as to build CQU Fuling Hospital into a high-standard comprehensive research-oriented hospital.

After the inauguration ceremony, top officials of the two sides had an informal discussion over deepening university-local government cooperation.

Over the discussion, Wang Zhijie, on behalf of CPC Fuling District Committee, Fuling District People's Congress, Fuling District People's Government and the CPPCC Committee of Fuling District, extended his warm welcome to Shu Lichun and his companions, and expressed his sincere gratitude to Chongqing University for its substantial support given to development of Fuling. Wang said that Fuling was a promising land of rich natural resources, and boasted development foundations and advantages including favorable ecological and humanistic environment, desirable geological locations, solid industrial foundations, encouraging business environment, fine governance and promising future. At present, Fuling District is fully implementing the requirements of the important instructions put forward by General Secretary Xi for Chongqing. Based on the positioning of Fuling as a "strategic support city with a population of 1 million that demonstrates 'three-importance'" identified by CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee and Chongqing Municipal People's Government, Fuling has been sticking to the "double-drive" of "scientific innovation+" and "green+", making all-out efforts to build a scientific innovation and industrial innovation system of “1+2+8+N”, expediting construction of the "three centers and three demonstration zones", and driving realization of "10 new improvements". The construction planning of Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone released by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China required efforts to made to "strengthen the driving role of Fuling in development of northeast Chongqing and southeast Chongqing", and bring forward higher requirements on public service capacity and level of Fuling. Wang expressed his hope that taking the inauguration as an opportunity, the two sides would utilize their advantageous resources to strengthen cooperation in areas including development of healthcare undertaking, co-building of CQU and schools, industrial, scientific and technological innovation and talent nurturing, constantly expand cooperation fields, enhance cooperation in areas in intelligent networking, new energy vehicles, new material industry development, software development and utilization, and intelligent manufacturing, and make constant efforts to deepen university-local government cooperation, establish a win-win relation and achieve co-development.

Shu Lichun gave an introduction to the disciplinary development, talent nurturing, team building and scientific research of Chongqing University in recent years. Shu said that Chongqing University was a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education. It has been sticking to its school-running mission to "study academics, nurture talents, rejuvenate the state and guide the society" and its university motto that values "diligence, simplicity, knowledge and patriotism", and will carry on with "Double-First-Rate" construction with force and tenacity, expedite in-depth integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain and talent chain, and serve the national strategy and regional development. The top-level planning and blueprint of Fuling are clear, cadres are vibrant and ambitious, and the industrial foundation is solid and sound, it has broad development prospects. He said that the official inauguration of CQU Fuling Hospital was a new starting point of the cooperation between the two sides and went on to expressed his hope that the two sides would work together to build a more comprehensive and closer tie and set up a new example of cooperative development between university and local government. Based on the "new medicine", Chongqing University will focus on deepened cooperation with Fuling in medicine, strengthen nurturing of talents in medicine and related disciplinary construction, and make contributions to building of a regional medical center in Fuling. Meanwhile, CQU will take the initiative to expand the cooperation space in areas including industrial scientific and technological innovation, joint tackling of key problems through industry-university-research cooperation, and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, make efforts to fully utilize complementary advantages in science, education and industry, and build a practical and effective mechanism of industry-university-research cooperation, so as to nurture talents of higher quality, lead innovation, serve development and boost win-win development.

Li Xuejing, a standing member of CPC CQU Committee, Head of the Organization Department and Head of the United Front Work Department of Chongqing University, Rao Jinsong, Assistant to the President of Chongqing University, Director of the President's Office and Director of the Huxi Campus Management Committee, Liu Guoxiang, Director of the Faculty of Medicine and Dean of the School of Medicine, and other related responsible persons of Chongqing University and district-level departments of Fuling appeared at the above events.