The years are golden. Southwest University for Nationalities is located in Chengdu, a famous historical and cultural city with the reputation of "the kingdom of heaven". It is a pearl embedded in the southwest of the motherland for higher education for nationalities. The school is a comprehensive national university directly under the State Ethnic Affairs Commission. Its predecessor is Southwest College for Nationalities. It was founded in July 1950, formally established on June 1, 1951, and renamed Southwest University for Nationalities in April 2003. In 2005, the State People's Committee and Chengdu Municipality will be jointly built; in 2015, the State People's Committee will be jointly built with the People's Government of Sichuan Province and the Ministry of Education; and in 2016, the People's Government of Sichuan Province will sign a strategic cooperation agreement with schools. Southwest University for Nationalities is one of the earliest ethnic universities established in New China under the personal care of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Wang Weizhou and other older generations of proletarian revolutionaries. The school has inherited the fine school-running tradition of Yan'an College of Nationalities, which was born in the flames of anti-Japanese war. It is nourished in the dawn of the rising of the Republic. During the period of reform and opening-up, the Phoenix Nirvana is now vigorously striving for a new journey in the new era. In 2003, the first round of undergraduate teaching evaluation by the Ministry of Education was excellent; in 2017, the first "National Civilized Campus" and the fifth batch of "National Unity and Progress to Establish Demonstration Schools" were awarded.

Fireworks are handed down from generation to generation, and we will continue to strive. Schools always adhere to the purpose of "serving ethnic minorities and ethnic areas, serving the national development strategy", developing in exploration and advancing in pursuit. After several generations of adult Min, they are determined to make progress. At present, the school covers 12 disciplines, including literature, history, philosophy, economics, management, law, teaching, science, industry, agriculture, medicine and art. It covers an area of nearly 3,000 mu. There are three campuses in Chengdu, namely, Wuhou Campus, Airport Campus and Taiping Garden Campus. In Hongyuan County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, there are "ecological protection of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of Southwest University for Nationalities". High-tech Research and Demonstration Base for Protecting and Animal Husbandry, with a construction area of 1.12 million square meters. It has a distinctive national museum and the largest Tibetan and Yi literature museums in the world. There are more than 30,000 full-time students from 56 nationalities and more than 3,000 faculty members, including nearly 500 doctoral and master tutors. The school has brought together a number of outstanding teachers who love their jobs, devote themselves to their work and conduct their studies rigorously. Fifty-one of them are experts who enjoy special allowances from the Government of the State Council. Two of them are leaders of philosophy and Social Sciences in the National "Ten Thousand People Plan" and cultural experts and "four batches of" talents in the Ministry of Propaganda and Publicity. One of them is top-notch young talents in the National "Ten Thousand People Plan", and 37 are academic and technological leaders in Sichuan Province. Twenty-five experts have made outstanding contributions to Sichuan Province, eight experts have made outstanding contributions to the National People's Committee, nine leaders of the National People's Committee, two innovative leaders and young talents of Sichuan's Thousand-Person Plan, eight candidates for the Ministry of Education's New Century Outstanding Talents Support Program, 17 middle-aged and young talents of the National People's Committee, and 83 leaders of Sichuan's academia and technology. Three of them are famous teachers in Sichuan Province, two are famous teachers in the first session of the National People's Committee, one is the first young teaching pacesetter of the National People's Committee, and 35 are famous teachers in schools.

Make every effort to govern and go far. The school has 24 colleges; 1 post-doctoral mobile station, 3 first-level disciplines authorized by doctoral degree, 24 first-level disciplines authorized by master's degree, 14 professional degree authorized points and 85 undergraduate disciplines; 5 first-level disciplines are key disciplines at the provincial (ministerial) level; 13 disciplines have been approved provincial and above "excellent talent education and training plan", of which 4 disciplines have been selected as national "outstanding talents". Education and Training Plan": 6 national-level specialties, 10 provincial-level specialties, 19 double-degree specialties, 5 provincial-level talent training bases, 2 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 provincial virtual simulation experimental teaching center, 1 Ministry of Education key laboratory, 10 provincial (ministerial) key laboratories, and 1 provincial engineering technology center. At present, there are more than 980 million books (including electronic documents) in the library, and the total value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment is 518 million yuan. The construction of digital campus has achieved remarkable results. The school is the national "excellent legal personnel training base", "national University National Preparatory Education base", "national university practical education innovation and entrepreneurship base", "university students'off-campus practical education base under the central ministry", "national people's Committee bilingual personnel training base", "national graduates' employment typical experience top 50 universities" and "national innovation and entrepreneurship typical experience top 50 universities", continuous. Seven times, he was awarded "Advanced Collective of Graduates'Employment Work in Sichuan Province".

Found brand, highlight characteristics. Since 2000, the school has undertaken more than 400 national scientific research projects, including 18 major projects of the National Social Science Foundation, 11 major projects of the National Science and Technology Plan, 18 projects of the National Art Foundation, more than 1300 research projects at the provincial and ministerial levels, more than 20,000 academic papers, more than 1100 academic works, more than 400 research achievements awards at the provincial and ministerial levels, and 1 National Science and technology progress award. 。 Especially in the fields of animal husbandry and veterinary theory and technology, national economy, national tourism, national culture and information processing of minority languages and characters, the research results have exerted great influence in the academic circles at home and abroad. The school has two provincial (ministerial) level collaborative innovation centers in 2011, nine provincial (ministerial) level humanities and Social Sciences Key Research bases, a provincial new research think tank and academician workstation; the National Committee for the Standardization of Yi Terminology, the National Committee for the Compilation and Approval of Yi-Chinese Bilingual Textbooks in Higher Institutions, affiliated to the school; and the Sichuan Research Center for the Development of Ethnic Education, located in the school; The National People's Committee, the Ministry of Culture, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Sichuan Province and the Chinese Society of Productivity have successively established in schools "the training and scientific research base of the ancient books of ethnic minorities of the National People's Committee", "the Southwest Research Center of the National Folk Literature and Art Development Center of the Ministry of Culture", "the construction base of the language resource database of ethnic minorities in Southwest China", "the national bilingual official training base" and "the cadre education in Sichuan Training University base, Sichuan minority bilingual education popularization base, Sichuan intangible cultural heritage research base and China Productivity Science Research Institute, etc. The academic journals published mainly include Journal of Southwest University for Nationalities and Journal of Ethnology. Journal of Southwest University for Nationalities (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition) has been selected as CSSCI source journal and Peking University Chinese core journal for many years. It has been awarded the authoritative journal of "Ethnology and Culture" by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the Journal of Ethnology has been selected as Peking University Chinese core journal.

Open school-running and multi-integration. The school is the key unit of opening up in Sichuan Province. In recent years, it has established strategic cooperative relations with 18 prefectures and counties, including Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Qinghai, Tibet and Chongqing, and established cooperative relations with enterprises, institutions and scientific research institutes; actively participated in the struggle against poverty in Wulingshan area; assisted Hongyuan County, Ruoergai County and Yanyuan County of Liangshan Prefecture in Aba Prefecture, and won Sichuan Province's counterpart. Advanced units in poverty alleviation at designated locations. To promote international exchange and cooperation in education, experts, scholars and government officials from more than 70 countries and regions have come to the University for academic exchanges; and with more than 60 countries (borders) such as the University of Munich, Columbia University, University of California Riverside, University of California, San Diego, University of Virginia, University of Law and Politics of Japan, Australian National University, Furen University of Taiwan, etc. Foreign universities and scientific research institutions have established inter-school cooperation and exchanges; nearly 1,000 students have been selected to study abroad, and more than 6,600 students from more than 70 countries have been recruited. The school fosters and promotes the socialist core values, promotes the education of national unity, promotes the exchanges and exchanges between teachers and students of 56 nationalities, blossoms and reflects the multicultural exchanges among nationalities, and creates a humane environment of unity, friendship, harmony and common progress with the help of teachers and students of all nationalities. The school insists on carrying out various, healthy and elegant campus cultural activities with educators and moral educators. Many achievements of campus cultural construction have been awarded the first prize and the first prize for excellent achievements of campus cultural construction in Colleges and universities in Sichuan Province and China. The Museum of Nationalities is the "national unity and progress education base" and the "national unity and progress education base of Sichuan Province".

Spring and autumn fruits, peach and plum fragrance. Since its establishment 67 years ago, a number of students of all nationalities have stepped into the society from the school to make achievements. Among the 200,000 graduates of all nationalities and types, the first Tibetan doctor and Qiang doctor emerged in New China, the first batch of Tibetan generals trained by New China itself, and many famous experts, scholars and leading cadres at all levels at home and abroad. They actively devoted themselves to the development of minority areas and the cause of national unity and progress, and became "returnable, retainable and useful" in minority areas. "Permanent Brand" talents who are reliable and well-done. Tens of millions of University students, represented by these excellent alumni, actively practice the socialist core values from the snowy areas of Kangzang to the north and south of Tianshan, from the land of Bashu to the ends of the earth, write responsibility with blood and loyalty, and give back to the motherland and people with youth and life, in order to safeguard the reunification of the motherland, national unity, border stability and promote economic development and social progress in ethnic areas. It has made outstanding contributions and played an irreplaceable role.