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 government estimated that the Three Gorges Dam project would cost 180 billion yuan (US$22.5 billion). By the end of 2008, spending had reached 148.365 billion yuan, among which 64.613 billion yuan was spent on construction, 68.557 billion yuan on relocating affected residents, and 15.195 billion yuan on financing. It was estimated in 2009 that the construction cost would be recovered when the dam had generated of electricity, yielding 250 billion yuan. Full cost recovery was thus expected to occur ten years after the dam started full operation, but the full cost of the Three Gorges Dam was recovered by December