Shapingba District.

Shapingba stands on the west bank of the Jialing River in the west of Chongqing's main urban area, about 396 square kilometres with 13 subdistricts and 11 towns. During the war against Japan it was known as Shaci District, and it took in the schools, factories and hospitals that arrived from the eastern cities after 1937. Chongqing University opened its first term in 1929 and moved to its present site by the river in 1933; on 6 February 1938 the university, the Sichuan College of Education, the Chongqing Nankai Middle School and the Chongqing Electrical Steel Works all settled here, among others from Beijing, Shanghai and Nanjing. The district was grouped with the campuses at Beibei, Chengdu and Hanzhong as one of the four cultural strongholds of the wartime rear.