Founded in 1998, Classic Bookstore is one of the earliest independent bookstores in Chongqing, and for 20 years, the founder Yang Yi has been operating the bookstore with the original intention of "just letting Chongqing people read good books". In 2016, due to rising rents, Jingdian had to leave Guanyin Bridge, where it had been in for 18 years, and moved to Nan'an, but the bookstore has also reached a higher level in terms of scale, environment, and book categories. In 2017, the Asian Bookstore Forum named Classic Bookstore as one of the "Top 10 Cultural Landmark Bookstores in Asia".

Classic Bookstore is not lagging behind Fangsuo in terms of scale, it covers an area of 1,600 square meters and contains nearly 200,000 books, including science, humanities, economics, design and many other categories of books. Yang Yi, the founder of the Department of Mathematics of Sichuan University, has his own unique views on the selection of books, he will not blindly cater to the reader's taste, but put science in the first place, therefore, the largest and most conspicuous position in the store is displayed science books, such as "From One to Infinity" is the most respected popular science book by the founder of the classic bookstore, the book uses popular and interesting metaphors to explain Einstein's theory of relativity and four-dimensional space structure, even non-science and engineering people can understand esoteric scientific knowledge. In addition, "Goldbach's Conjecture" and "Science Needs Storytelling" are popular science and popular science books in the store. Science books are followed by economics and finance, followed by other categories. Readers who love humanities need not be disappointed, there are still a considerable number of excellent humanities books in the classic bookstore, among which the number of books about Chongqing's local characteristics ranks among the top in the mountain city.

Like Fangsuo, Classic Bookstore is not only a store of high-quality books, but also a cultural living room in Chongqing. The bookstore often invites writers, scholars, and experts from various industries to hold exchange activities, especially local industry celebrities, covering humanities and history, life aesthetics, architecture, education and many other fields, covering dialogues, music and drama performances, readers' recitals, etc., in a variety of forms. Whenever there is an event, readers can listen and discuss it to gain more knowledge and insights. The Classic Bookstore will hold the above similar activities several times a month, and they will be announced in advance on the WeChat official account, so interested readers can pay attention.

The design of the classic bookstore is modern and Chongqing-style. Readers walk upstairs through the door to enter the bookstore lobby, where the shelves and the top are neatly arranged, and the waiter needs a ladder to reach the books at the top of the shelves. The combination of white walls and gray concrete floors is simple and smart, and the transparent floor-to-ceiling glass windows allow the store to be very bright. The store is carefully designed as a stilted building, with two floors up and down, and a café downstairs, where readers can bring books to their seats after ordering, and the atmosphere is quiet and peaceful. Upstairs is the South Bank District Library branch, which is jointly managed by the bookstore and the district government, and the collection of books can be borrowed at the bookstore cash register and returned at any public library in the city.