Southwest University is a key comprehensive university built by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas and Chongqing Municipality. It is a national "211 Project" and "985 Project Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" construction university. Professor Shu Lichun, Secretary of the Party Committee, and Professor Zhang Weiguo, President.

The main body of the school is located in Beibei District of Chongqing City. It is situated at the foot of Jinyun Mountain and the Bank of Jialing River. It covers an area of more than 8,000 mu. The campus covers an area of 1.65 million square meters. The green space rate reaches 40%. It is a magnificent and solemn campus with thousands of meteorologies. It is a well-known garden-style school and a civilized campus commended by the Ministry of Education.

The school originated from the East Sichuan Normal School established in 1906. After several successive changes, it was renamed Sichuan Provincial College of Education in 1936. In 1950, the Department of Education, Chinese Language, Foreign Language, History, Geography and Mathematics of Sichuan State Education College merged with the National Women's Normal College established in 1940 to establish the Southwest Normal College. The Department of Agriculture, Horticulture and Agricultural Manufacturing merged with the private Xianghui College founded in 1946 to establish the Southwest Agricultural College. In 1985, the two universities were renamed Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University. In 2000, Chongqing Light Industry Vocational University was merged into Southwest Normal University; in 2001, Southwest Agricultural University, Sichuan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medical College and Citrus Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences were merged into a new Southwest Agricultural University. In 2005, Southwest Normal University and Southwest Agricultural University were merged into Southwest University, which opened a new chapter in the development of the university.

Over the past hundred years, Southwest University has forged the university spirit of "special southwest, learning and practicing all over the world" with its perseverance and perseverance, and constantly enriched the connotation of the school motto "carrying forward the glorious future and opening up the future".

Over the past hundred years, the school has always been taking the national prosperity and national rejuvenation as its responsibility, and has accumulated profound humanistic connotations by educating people in apricot altar and persuading teachers to teach agriculture and mulberry. A large number of famous teachers and sages have taught here, the spring weathering and rain, hard-working. Hundreds of thousands of graduates have moved from here to all directions, becoming the builders of national rejuvenation and the backbone of all walks of life.

There are 53 first-level disciplines in the school, covering 12 disciplines such as philosophy, economics, law, teaching, literature, history, science, industry, agriculture, medicine, management and arts. Among them, there are 3 national key disciplines, 2 national key (cultivation) disciplines, 28 first-level disciplines have the right to grant doctoral degrees and 51 first-level disciplines have the right to grant master's degrees. There are one kind of professional doctoral degree, 19 kinds of professional master's degree, and 22 post-doctoral research mobile stations. Six disciplines have entered the top 1% of the ESI world.

Schools adhere to talent training as the basis, cultivating high-quality talents with strong sense of social responsibility, profound humanities, solid professional knowledge, innovative spirit and practical ability. The school currently has 36 colleges (departments) and 105 undergraduate majors, including 20 national characteristic majors and 43 Chongqing characteristic majors. There are four national experimental teaching demonstration centers, three national virtual simulation experimental centers and 13 Chongqing experimental teaching demonstration centers. There are 46 national excellent courses, 96 Chongqing excellent courses and one national cultural quality education base for college students. At present, there are more than 50,000 students in school, of which nearly 40,000 are ordinary undergraduates, 11,000 are master's and doctoral students, and more than 2,000 are international students.

There are 2 968 full-time teachers in the school, including 572 professors, 1115 associate professors, 331 doctoral supervisors, 1 398 master supervisors, 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 senior professor, 3 national famous teaching teachers, 5 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the national level, 12 candidates for the "1000-person plan", 9 candidates for the "National Special Branch Plan", and 9 candidates for the "Yangtze River Science" There are 13 people, 2 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 2 chief scientists of the 973 Project, 12 national candidates of the 10 million talents project, 8 members of the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council and the subject evaluation team, 4 national teaching teams and 3 innovation teams of the Ministry of Education.

The school has one National Key Laboratory, one National Engineering Research Center, one National Local Joint Engineering Laboratory, one National Key Laboratory Cultivation Base, 10 Key Laboratories of the Ministry of Education or the Ministry of Agriculture, three Engineering Research Centers of the Ministry of Education, three Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Bases of the "111 Plan", two National Field Science Observation and Test Stations, and scientific observation facts of the Ministry of Agriculture. Two stations, two field bases of the Ministry of Land and Resources, one National University Science Park, 12 Chongqing Key Laboratories, 25 Chongqing Engineering Laboratories (Engineering Research Center), one Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, one Public Culture Research Base of the Ministry of Culture, one Key Laboratory of the State Sports Administration (co-construction), and one Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of Chongqing There are 13. During the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period, more than 900 state-level scientific research projects were established, and the total amount of scientific research funds reached 2.035 billion yuan. More than 700 state-level projects, such as "973" projects, "863" projects (projects), major projects of the National Social Science Fund, key national R&D projects and major national cultural projects, were awarded more than 1,000 authorized patents, and 50 new animal and plant varieties were bred. There are more than 800 Monographs in the edition. There are more than 5400 retrieval papers in SCIE, EI and ISTP for natural sciences, and more than 3600 retrieval papers in SCI, A&HCI and CSSCI for Humanities and social sciences. Since the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, he has won two second-class prizes for national scientific and technological progress, one second-class prize for national natural science, one excellent prize for patent in China, more than 20 awards for outstanding achievements in scientific research in Colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education (humanities and social sciences), and eight first-class prizes for Chongqing Science and Technology Award.

The school pays attention to giving full play to its own advantages and serving the local economic and social development. Adhering to the principle of "basing on Chongqing, facing the southwest and serving the whole country", we have established strategic cooperative relations with more than 50 cities, cities and counties in Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Jiangsu and Shandong provinces and cities, established close cooperative relations with more than 50 large and medium-sized enterprises in China, and carried out effective project cooperation with more than 500 administrative institutions and more than 1000 enterprises in 26 provinces and cities. Significant economic and social benefits. Among them, the cooperation with the county schools in Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County, Chongqing City, has been widely praised as the "Shizhu Model" of the effective combination of industry, education and research.

The school actively promotes the process of internationalization. It has established long-term friendly cooperative relations with more than 80 universities and research institutes in nearly 30 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, Thailand, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Australia and Russia. It has also established three Confucius Institutes in Thailand, Canada and Kazakhstan.

After more than one hundred years of hardening and development, today's Southwest University is adhering to the school motto of "carrying forward the glorious future" and adhering to the development concept of "establishing academic schools, strengthening schools with talents, promoting schools with quality and managing living schools", comprehensively improving the quality of personnel training, comprehensively deepening comprehensive reform, comprehensively advancing school management according to law, comprehensively improving the scientific level of Party building, so as to build a high water with distinct characteristics. Pingyuan University has made solid progress.