Sichuan Normal University is one of the key universities in Sichuan Province and the first national universities to implement the "Basic Capacity Building Project of Colleges and Universities in Central and Western China". It is the earliest university in Sichuan Province to hold undergraduate normal education and the oldest one in normal universities. The school is located in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. There are three campuses: Lion Mountain Campus, Jackie Chan Campus and East Campus.

Education has a long history. The school was founded in 1946, and its birth has a direct historical origin with Northeast University. In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, Northeast University moved to Santai County, Sichuan Province to run a school. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Northeast University moved back to Shenyang. Teachers and students in Liuchuan founded the private North Sichuan Agricultural and Technical College on the original campus. In 1949, the school absorbed Xishan College and renamed it Private Chuanbei University. In 1950, the school merged with the Private Academy of Northern Sichuan Literature to form a public North Sichuan University, which was relocated to Nanchong City, Sichuan Province and renamed North Sichuan University. In 1952, taking North Sichuan University as the main body, Sichuan Normal University was established by merging some specialties of East Sichuan Institute of Education (formerly Rural Construction College), Sichuan University and West China University. In 1953, teachers and students from some departments of Chongqing Normal University entered Sichuan Normal University. In 1956, the undergraduate major of Sichuan Normal University moved to Lion Mountain in Chengdu. In 1964, the three departments of mathematics, physics and chemistry of Chengdu University (now Southwest University of Finance and Economics) were merged into our university. In 1985, with the approval of the State Education Commission, Sichuan Normal University was renamed Sichuan Normal University. In 1999, Chengdu Coal Cadre Management College of the former Ministry of Coal was integrated into our school as a whole.

There are all kinds of disciplines. The school is the first batch of master's authorized units and the tenth batch of doctor's authorized units in China. There are 11 disciplines in literature, science, engineering, philosophy, economics, management, law, history, pedagogy, art and agriculture. There are 2 post-doctoral mobile stations, 3 first-level disciplines authorized by doctoral degree, 26 first-level disciplines authorized by doctoral degree, 24 first-level disciplines authorized by master's degree, 12 types authorized by master's degree, and 82 undergraduate disciplines, including 4 provincial key disciplines construction projects, 2 first-level disciplines and 17 provincial key disciplines authorized by second-level disciplines. One research base, one key laboratory of the Ministry of Education, one key laboratory of Sichuan Province, three collaborative innovation centers of Sichuan Province in 2011, four key research bases of philosophy and Social Sciences in Sichuan Province, 10 key laboratories of universities in Sichuan Province, 10 national research centers in Sichuan Province and 10 engineering laboratories in Sichuan Province, and a science and Technology Park of provincial universities in Sichuan Province.

Teachers are strong. Since its founding, the school has emerged with famous Mohist Wu Feibei, one of the founders of sociology and folklore in China, Liu Shaoyu, one of the founders of educational psychology in China, Tang Bingzheng, Documentation expert Qu Shouyuan, Exegetics expert Liu Junhui, Condensation Physics expert Zhao Minguang, Topology expert Liu Wangjin, Nonlinear Analysis expert Ding Xie. Ping is the representative of a group of well-known experts. School teachers have successively been approved seven "young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from the state", one "one or two-level candidates for national millions of talents project", one "leader of national millions plan", one "national famous teaching teacher", six candidates for the "excellent talents support plan for the new century" of the Ministry of Education, and 50 experts enjoying the "special allowance of the State Council"; and "academic and technical personnel of Sichuan Province". There are 116 technical leaders and reserve candidates, 30 outstanding experts with outstanding contributions in Sichuan Province, 8 outstanding teachers in Sichuan Province, 12 famous teachers in Sichuan Province, 28 outstanding teachers in China, national model teachers, Awardees of the National May Day Labor Medal and advanced workers in the national education system, 28 outstanding teachers in Sichuan Province and May Day Labor in Sichuan Province. There were 39 medal winners and pacesetters of Sichuan Teachers'Ethics. In addition, the school also hired academicians of the two academies, specially hired professors of the Yangtze River scholars, the national "thousand people plan", the national "outstanding youth" and more than 20 high-level talents.

Educating people has achieved remarkable results. The school has a national cultural quality education base for college students. It is a national demonstration school for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform and a National University for implementing innovation and entrepreneurship training program. It has established a 33-year-old "school-in-school" Aesthetic Education School of Sichuan Normal University. The school has built 90 national and 429 provincial projects of "quality engineering". Among them, there are 3 national excellent teacher training projects, 12 national characteristic specialties, National Innovative Experimental Zone of talent training mode, national experimental teaching demonstration center, national teaching team, National College Students'off-campus practical education base and national education professional degree graduate association. There are 1 joint training demonstration base and 1 National Popularization base of Humanities and social sciences, 15 national excellent courses, bilingual teaching demonstration courses, excellent video open courses and excellent resource sharing courses, 19 national planning textbooks in the 11th Five-Year Plan and the 12th Five-Year Plan. The students undertake 435 national innovative entrepreneurship training projects, and the school has won 11 second prizes for nearly three national teaching achievements. Ninety-six prizes (31 first prizes), two second prizes, four excellent master's theses and 49 prizes (10 first prizes and above) were awarded in the recent three years in the National Education Professional Degree Graduate Teaching Skills Competition. Over the past 71 years, more than 300,000 graduates, represented by Li Yanrong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Tang Yong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Guo Hong, academician of the Royal Canadian Academy of Sciences, have been trained. They have made due contributions to national construction in their posts.

Scientific research has yielded fruitful results. Since the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, the school has undertaken nearly 4,000 scientific research projects. Among them, the Ministry of Science and Technology supports 4 projects (major R&D), the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Social Science Foundation (including major, key), the National Art Foundation and other state-level projects more than 300, and more than 700 provincial and ministerial-level projects. More than 250 million yuan has actually been spent on scientific research, and more than 11,000 academic papers have been published, including nearly 400 high-level papers published in China Social Sciences, Economic Research, SCI/SSCI, 155 authorized invention patents and more than 1,000 scientific research achievements transformation projects. In 2018, the number of projects sponsored by the National Social Science Foundation ranked second in the province, first in provincial colleges and universities, thirteenth in national teachers'colleges, first in provincial projects sponsored by the National Social Science Foundation, and third in national teachers' colleges.

Extensive foreign exchanges. As one of the foreign exchange centers of Sichuan universities and approved by the Ministry of Education, the school has established extensive academic exchanges and personnel training relationships with 110 institutions of higher learning and educational research institutions in 25 countries and regions, and trained overseas students at all levels and carried out various activities. China-foreign joint training projects at different levels and in different countries; 2 Confucius Institutes have been established in cooperation with Yonsei University in Korea and Karachi University in Pakistan, and Confucius Schools have been built with Pedro Middle School in Pakistan. It has established Japan Research Center, Korea Research Center, Sino-Russian Cultural Exchange Center and Sino-French Cultural Exchange Center, and co-sponsored "Chengdu Sejong School" with Yonsei University of Korea.

Social services are powerful. As an advanced collective of national unity under the State Council, the school has long exerted its talents and scientific and technological advantages to support the development of local economy and society, especially education. It has Sichuan Teachers Training Center for Colleges and Universities, Sichuan Cadre Training Center for Colleges and Universities, Sichuan Branch Center of National Network Training for College Teachers of the Ministry of Education, Sichuan Teachers Qualification Accreditation and Guidance Center, Sichuan Education Department, Sichuan Teachers. The basic education curriculum research center of Fan University, Sichuan Teachers'Continuing Education Training Center of Sichuan Normal University and Sichuan Coal Mine Safety Technology Training Center are provincial training and research institutions. Long-term Counterpart Assistance Ganzi Litang County, Liangshan Puge County, Cangxi County, Guangyuan City, Wusheng County, Guangan City and other poor counties. In 2017, the school led the establishment of the C5 Education Accurate Poverty Alleviation Alliance, which successively established "New Rural Construction College" in Yilong County of Nanchong City, Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County of Mianyang City, Cangxi County of Guangyuan City, Dachuan District of Dazhou City, Puge County of Liangshan Prefecture and Litang County of Ganzi Prefecture to help out of poverty accurately.

Sichuan Normal University is rooted in Bashu University and serves the new strategy of governing Sichuan and rejuvenating Sichuan. In the new era, under the guidance of Xi Jinping's socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, all teachers and masters will study and implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Session of the Provincial Party Committee, devote themselves to developing schools into cradles for the birth of people's educators, bases for the growth of outstanding principals, platforms for the transformation of outstanding educational and teaching achievements, high-end think tanks of national and Sichuan education, and conscientiously perform Sichuan Teachers' Leading regional teacher education, promoting local economic and social development, serving the country's major needs, inheriting and innovating the responsibility and mission of Chinese civilization, and constantly improving the ability to serve local economic and social development and basic education. At present, the whole school's teachers and students are united, harmonious and vigorous, and strive to build the school into a "first-class teacher training base in China and a teaching and research university with distinctive characteristics".