In recent years, Chongqing has maintained close cooperation with Azerbaijan in people-to-people exchanges, economic and trade cooperation, local friendly engagement, and other fields. Chongqing Lifan Technology Group has built an automobile assembly factory in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, and Chongqing's Jiangjin District has established local friendly exchange relationships with Sumgait City. After the outbreak of COVID-19, Jiangjin District donated a batch of anti-epidemic materials to its sister city Sumgait, Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijani Ambassador to China Akram Zeynalli visited Chongqing together with the Delegation of Envoys of SCO Member States to China in February 2018 and was invited to attend the Third Conference of the CICA Non-Governmental Forum in Chongqing in December 2019. In April 2021, Zeynalli headed a delegation to visit Chongqing. On behalf of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan, signed a memorandum of friendly cooperation between Chongqing and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic with Chongqing Mayor Tang Liangzhi.