The University of Cincinnati (UC)，founded in 1819 in Cincinnati City, Ohio State, USA, is a famous public university with a history of 200 years. It was ranked Top 20 in Cooperative Education, and Top 63 in Top Public Schools, 2018. In 1906, the university-enterprise joint training (Co-op) model was first established, now ranking third in the United States (the latest ranking in 2019) and it has cooperated with more than 1,800 companies. UC is the cradle of cultivating the world-class top talents, such as Kenyon Martin, the NBA All-Star player; Tom Wesselmann, the modern art master; Liang Sili, the rocket system control expert, one of the founders of the Chinese missile control system and also the academician from Chinese Academy of Sciences. They are all well-known alumni of the University of Cincinnati.

Chongqing University (CQU) is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education (MOE) enjoying a deputy ministerial status, accountable to the CCCP of China . It is also co-supported by MOE and the government of Chongqing Municipality. Not only as one of the old A8 architectural institutes, and a Type-A world's leading university under construction, it was also among the first batch of high-level research-oriented comprehensive universities of “ Project 211” and “ Project 985 ”. Founded in 1929, CQU became a national comprehensive university with six colleges of literature, science, engineering, business, law and medicine. A large number of famous scholars such as Ma Yinchu (Economist), Li Siguang(Geologist), He Lu(Mathematician), Feng Jian (Electronics scientist ), Ke Zhao (Mathematician), Wu Mi (Cultural Scholar), and Wu Guanzhong (Painter) have taught in CQU.

“Talents are the main factor conducive to human civilization and governance of the country". ( quoted from CQU founding declaration). In October 2013, Chongqing University-University of Cincinnati Joint Co-op Institute was established. In order to cultivate international, research-oriented and innovative talents with a strong sense of patriotism, broad international vision, solid engineering foundation and strong potential of industry leaders, CQU relies on its outstanding engineering advantages to reform the traditional engineering education model. The new Joint Co-op Institute introduced the advanced school-enterprise joint training (Co-op) model of the University of Cincinnati for the first time into China, adopting all English taught programs and implementing American teaching methodologies .

JCI is a demonstration institute for undergraduate education and internationalization of CQU. It now offers two majors—Electrical Engineering and Its Automation and Mechanical Engineering and Its Automation, both of which are key and well-received majors of two universities. Students are enrolled according to CQU’s standard enrollment quota and trained based on first-class undergraduate standards. From JCIers’ admission to graduation, all their teaching resources are managed by CQU.

Chongqing is the provincial administrative region of the People's Republic of China, the only municipality directly under the central government in the central and western regions, a national central mega-city, and an international metropolis in the central and western regions. It is the center of economy, finance, S&T innovation, shipping, logistics and trade in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It is an important strategical fulcrum for the west development of China, an important connection point between the “B&R Initiative” and the Yangtze River Economic Belt, as well as inland open highlands; it is not only famous for the great rivers, heavy fogs, and many bridges, but also well-known as a mountain city, China's hot pot capital, China's famous convention city, and the world's hot spring capital .

Cincinnati is an important industrial city and river port in the southwestern tip of Ohio in Central America. Located on the northern bank of the top of the Ohio River to the Great North Bend, near the junction of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Cincinnati is rated as the top emerging city most suitable for the development of recent graduates.