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Objective To understand the left-behind women's reproductive tract infection (RTI) status and influencing factors in the northeast ecological conservation development area of Chongqing to perfect the epidemiological monitoring and management and provide a scientific basis for the left-behind women's RTI prevention and control. Methods A total of 360 left- behind women and non-left-behind women as the research subjects were randomly extracted from northeast ecological conserva­tion development area of Chongqing from October 2015 to August 2016. The general data, awareness situation of AIDS transmis­sion route, classification and composition of RTI pathogens and relation between RTI with age were performed the statistical anal­ysis by using the reproductive health related questionnaire and laboratory detection. Results Among 360 respondents, the de­tected cases included 8 cases of treponema pallidum infection, 28 cases of Chlamydia trachomatis infection,48 cases of Ureaplas -ma urealyticum infection, 16 cases of gonococcal infection, 16 cases of trichomonal infection and 28 cases of mycotic infection. The awareness rates of transmission through blood transfusion, injection transmission, sexual intercourse transmission, fetal trans­mission of pregnant women, and known AIDS transmission routes such as breast feeding and mosquito bite had no statistical dif­ference between left behind women and non-left-behind women (P>0.05) , while the awareness rate of transmission route of sharing meal at the same table in non-left-behind women was significantly higher than that in left-behind women, the difference was statis­tically significant (P<0.05 ) ; the RTI risk of sexual transmission except for AIDS and non-sexual transmission in left-behind women was significantly higher than that in non-left-behind women with statistically significant difference (P<0.05 ) , moreover mycoplasma infection was more evident; the RTI occurrence risk by sexual transmission and non-sexual transmission had statisti­cal difference between different ages of left-behind women and non-left-behind women (P<0.05 ) , moreover the RTI occurrence rate by sexual transmission was decreased with age increasing, while which by non-sexual transmission was increased with age increasing. Conclusion Strengthening the publicity and education of RTI prevention and treatment and related knowledge on left- behind women, and regular health screening and intervention are conducive to reduce the RTI risk in left-behind women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]