Leshan Teachers College was founded in 1978 and approved by the Ministry of Education in March 2000. The former Leshan Teachers College and Leshan Education College were merged and upgraded to general undergraduate colleges in Sichuan Province. In 2006, it passed the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education and got a good grade. In 2012, it was included in the Ministry of Education's "Eastern Universities Counterpart Support Plan for Western Universities" and supported by Wuhan University counterpart.

The school is located in Leshan City, where the world's natural and cultural heritage is located, the best tourist destination in China and the hometown of Guo Moruo, a world cultural celebrity, is known as "forest in the city, city in the mountains and rivers". It looks to Leshan Buddha in the east, Dadu River in the south, Emei Mountain in the West and Green Heart in the north. From 1938 to 1946, the National University of Wuhan has been here for eight years. The school covers an area of nearly 1,000 mu, with a building area of 433,000 square meters. The library has 184,350 printed books and 9.21 million electronic books. It has 48 databases and a total value of 167.3 million yuan in teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment. At present, there are more than 16,000 full-time students, more than 1,200 faculty members, nearly 500 senior titles, nearly 900 doctors and masters, 4 provincial famous teachers, 6 experts who enjoy the subsidies of the State Council, 3 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions in Sichuan Province, 5 academic and technical leaders in Sichuan Province, 18 reserve candidates for academic and technical leaders in Sichuan Province, and each in Leshan City. There are 32 top-notch talents. Sixty-three teachers serve as part-time doctoral and postgraduate tutors in Wuhan University, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Sichuan Normal University and Southwest University.

The school has 18 teaching institutes and 59 undergraduate majors, covering arts, science, engineering, teaching, economics, management, law, agriculture and arts nine university disciplines. There are 7 disciplines of Professor (researcher) post qualification evaluation and 16 disciplines of associate professor (researcher) post qualification evaluation. There are 1 national-level professional comprehensive reform project, 1 national-level teacher education quality resource sharing course, 1 national-level off-campus practical education base for University students, 226 national-level innovation and entrepreneurship training projects for University students. There are five pilot projects of provincial comprehensive education reform, three provincial applied demonstration majors, seven provincial characteristic majors, 12 provincial comprehensive reform projects, 22 provincial top-quality courses, 21 provincial top-quality resources sharing courses, 7 provincial top-quality online open courses, 2 provincial innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration courses, 2 provincial teaching teams and 5 provincial experimental teaching demonstration center projects. 3 provincial innovative experimental zones of talent training mode and 11 provincial "Excellence Plan" projects. The school has been awarded the National Outstanding Teaching Achievement Award for four consecutive sessions, including one National Prize, one First Prize and two Second Prize, and 32 Provincial Prizes for Teaching Achievement since its upgrade. The school's Moruo Art Troupe has won the first prize of the National University Students Art Exhibition for three consecutive sessions. The school has been incorporated into the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education and the China Disabled Persons'Federation's "Special Education School Construction Plan (Phase II)" project unit, and has built a national special education teacher training base. There are provincial training institutions such as Sichuan Teachers'Continuing Education Training Center for Primary and Secondary Schools and Sichuan Teachers' Continuing Education Training Center for Special Education. The school has a National Examination Point for Postgraduate Enrollment.

The school has two key research bases of philosophy and Social Sciences in Sichuan Province - Sichuan Tourism Development Research Center, Sichuan Guo Moruo Research Center, one Sichuan Social Science Popularization Base - Sichuan World Heritage Popularization Base, and one Sichuan Key Laboratory - Bamboo Disease and Pest Control and Resource Development Laboratory. Three key laboratories of Sichuan universities, including "Protection of Endangered Birds in Southwest Mountainous Areas", "Intelligent Processing of Natural Language on the Internet", "Chemistry of Natural Products and Catalysis of Small Molecules", were constructed. Two key research bases of Humanities and Social Sciences in Sichuan universities, Sichuan Special Education Development Research Center and Sichuan Grass-roots Public Cultural Services Research Center, and two key research bases of heritage tourism in Sichuan Tourism Base, Sichuan University Engineering Research Center of "Industrialization of Local Chicken Varieties in South Sichuan". There are 23 school-level research institutes such as the Center for the Prevention of Official Crime and 2 key laboratories such as the Emeishan Institute for Biodiversity Conservation and Utilization. There are academic journals such as Journal of Leshan Normal University, Guo Moruo Academic Journal and Basic Education Forum. Since its promotion, it has won 40 projects from the National Philosophical Social Science and Natural Science Foundation, 329 research awards at provincial, ministerial and municipal levels, 27 of which are Sichuan Philosophical Social Science Excellent Achievements Award, and 2 Sichuan Science and Technology Progress Award. It has outstanding characteristics in Guo Moruo's research, Su Shi's research, tourism research, World Heritage protection, enzymatic catalysis research and so on.

School docking and serving local economic and social development, transformation and upgrading, to achieve resource sharing, complementary advantages and common development as the goal, strengthen school-site cooperation. Develop comprehensive strategic cooperation with Leshan Municipal People's Government and Leshan High-tech Zone, and work closely with municipal districts (cities and counties) and relevant municipal departments to provide intellectual support in the overall planning of industrial, tertiary industry, urban construction and rural economic development and in the economic construction of districts and counties. In recent years, 288 patents and 24 copyrights have been granted by the state. Significant achievements have been made in the research and technological transformation of agricultural science and technology, such as high-quality rice planting, control of bamboo python, weeding of Coptis chinensis with plastic film, recycling of poultry and livestock manure, etc.

The school has always adhered to the scientific concept of development and the socialist orientation of running schools, adhered to social needs as the guide, and vigorously improved the quality of applied and innovative talents training. In recent years, the quality of students has been steadily improved. Students in schools have made outstanding achievements in the competitions of national college students'mathematical modeling, electronic design, intelligent cars, teaching skills of normal students, extracurricular academic and technological works, and art exhibitions of College students. We will build a business incubation base for college students in Leshan City (young people) and an innovation and entrepreneurship club for college students in Leshan City.

Schools focus on international exchange and cooperation in education. It has established friendly cooperative relations with 37 foreign higher education or research institutions, such as Stockholm University in Sweden, Paratsky University in Czech Republic and Swansea University in Britain, and jointly carried out activities such as teacher-student exchanges, joint training, scientific research cooperation and think tank construction.

The school has a good social reputation and wide social influence both inside and outside the province. It has been awarded the honors of "National Standardized Model School of Language and Character", "National Advanced School of Art Education", "National May 4th Red Banner League Committee", "Provincial Civilized Unit", "Advanced Unit of Sichuan Province", "May 1st Labor Award of Sichuan Province" and "Demonstration List of Practical Talents for Rural Tourism Development in Sichuan Province". The "National West Tourism Specialized Personnel Training Demonstration Unit" and "Sichuan Provincial School Running by Law Demonstration School" have been awarded "Sichuan Advanced Collective for Graduates'Employment of General Colleges and Universities" for seven consecutive times. After 40 years of construction, the school has developed into a multi-disciplinary local college based in Sichuan, facing the west, radiating the whole country, focusing on Teacher Education and laying equal stress on non-teacher education. At present, the whole school is concentrating on carrying forward the musician spirit of "daring to be the first and being the best", focusing on "connotation development, quality improvement and characteristic cohesion", striving to implement the school motto of "hongyi self-improvement, devotion to learning practice", giving full play to the advantages of teacher education, adapting to the needs of modern service industry, and resolutely reforming, in order to realize the "striving to create provincial first-class university" proposed by the Third Party Congress of the school. "Strive for the goal!