Chongqing Three Gorges University domains. It has prominent advantages in the teaching and research of the specialties of marketing, international trade, environmental protection, folk art, languages and literature, physical education, tourism, biology, chemical engineering, ethnonymics, and occupies the leading position in China in some of the specialties and subjects (). CTGU has established wide cooperation and exchange relationship with many universities both at home and abroad, and has developed teachers/students exchange and academic exchange. In 2007, CTGU established collaboratively a Confucius Institute at Community College of Denver in Colorado, USA. Chongqing Three Gorges University Chongqing Three Gorges University (CTGU, ), established in 1956, is
Three Gorges Dam land were flooded. The flood affected more than 2.3 million people, killing 1,526. In early August 2009, the largest flood in five years passed through the dam site. The dam limited the water flow to less than per second, raising the upstream water level from 145.13 metres on August 1, 2009, to 152.88 on August 8, 2009. 4.27 cubic kilometres of flood water were captured and the river flow was cut by as much as 15,000 cubic metres per second. The dam discharges its reservoir during the dry season between December and March every year. This increases the flow rate