Chongqing is a place of strategic importance in Southwest China. There is a well-known and deep-rooted traditional folk pottery culture named Rongchang pottery, which shares an historical reputation with three other Chinese folk potteries, which are Jiangsu Yi Xing pottery, Guangxi Qin Zhou pottery, and the Yunnan Jian Shui pottery. Rongchang pottery dates back thousands of years and inherits and develops upon the fine tradition of Chinese folk ceramic arts, and its technique was enlisted in the national intangible heritage list in 2011.