SouthwestUniversity, referred to as "Xida University" for short, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), and co-founded with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and Chongqing Municipality. It ranks among the national "double-first-class", "21engineering", "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform" and "double-first-class" member universities of the Agricultural Federation. Selected in "11/plan", "201/plan", "Hundred Schools Project", outstanding agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan, outstanding teachers training plan, national college students' innovation experiment plan, national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan and national high-level university public postgraduate plan.