"Sichuan University of Light Chemical Technology" is the former Sichuan Institute of Light Chemical Technology located in Zigong City, Sichuan Province. The school's predecessor was the Southwest Branch of East China Institute of Chemical Technology (now East China University of Science and Technology) established in 1965. 1965, according to President Mao Zedong's strategic decision of "preparing for the famine and serving the people", Premier Zhou Enlai of the State Council personally instructed East China Institute of Chemical Technology (now East China University of Science and Technology), a key institution of higher learning of the Ministry of Education, to move some secrecy majors to the west, set up the Southwest Branch of East China Institute of Chemical Technology in Zigong City (code name "Project 652"), and started the school-running process of serving the "Third Line Construction" and moving to Sichuan.

1979 was renamed Sichuan institute of chemical technology, and 1983 was renamed Sichuan institute of light chemical technology. In 2003, four universities merged to form "Sichuan Institute of Technology". It is an ordinary university with the coordinated development of science and engineering, management, humanities and social sciences, with a history of more than 50 years of undergraduate education and 10 years of postgraduate education. It is located in Zigong City, Sichuan Province, a national historical and cultural city with the reputation of "the hometown of dinosaurs, the Millennium Salt Capital and the Southern Lamp City". Won the national "Basic Capacity Building Project of Colleges and Universities in the Midwest" twice in a row. It is a national "excellent engineer education and training plan" university, "national undergraduate innovation and entrepreneurship training plan" university, the first batch of post-doctoral innovation practice bases in Sichuan Province, the first batch of innovation and reform pilot universities in Sichuan Province, the second batch of provincial demonstration universities in Sichuan Province to deepen innovation and entrepreneurship education reform, and the demonstration scientific research unit of high-tech industries in Sichuan Province.

There are three campuses in Huidong, Yingpan and Lingang, and Huangling training base, covering an area of nearly 4,000 mu. There are nearly 1.600 full-time teachers, of which professors and associate professors account for nearly 50%, and teachers with doctoral and master's degrees account for 80%. The school currently has 265,438+0 secondary colleges with 82 undergraduate majors, and enrolls students from 29 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) nationwide. There are more than 30,000 full-time undergraduates, postgraduates and international students from 40 countries.