Previously, the Department of Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education has announced the “Public Notice on the Evaluation of the General Project of the Humanities and Social Sciences Research of the Department of Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education in 2018”. The “Transformation Basis and Cracking Path Research of the Main Contradictions in the New Era of China”, which is led by Associate Professor Chen Kaijiang from the Department of Ideological and Political Affairs, has been selected as the 2018 Humanities and Social Sciences Special Task Project of Ministry of Education (Research on the Socialist Theory System with Chinese Characteristics). It is the second time for our school project to be selected as a Humanities and Social Science Project of the Ministry of Education. It's worth mentioning that our college become the only private university in Chongqing that is short-listed in the Humanities and Social Sciences Project of the Ministry of Education in 2018.