2018年10月25日，重慶市人民政府外事辦公室正式掛牌，副市長劉桂平出席掛牌活動并揭牌。

《重慶市機(jī)構(gòu)改革方案》明確，在市政府外事僑務(wù)辦公室外事工作職責(zé)基礎(chǔ)上，組建市政府外事辦公室，作為市政府組成部門，保留市政府港澳事務(wù)辦公室牌子，不再保留市政府外事僑務(wù)辦公室。

On October 25， the Foreign Affairs Office of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government officially unveiled its nameplate， and Vice Mayor Liu Guiping attended the inauguration event and unveiled the plate.

The "Chongqing Municipal Institutional Reform Plan" clarifies that on the basis of the duties of Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Chongqing Municipal People"s Government， the Foreign Affairs Office of the Municipal Government is established as a municipal government body. While retaining the nameplate of the Municipal Government's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office， the new office would no longer incorporate the Foreign and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office.