Southwest Petroleum University, referred to as "Xiyou" for short, is located in Chengdu (there is a subway petroleum university station). It is the second petroleum undergraduate university in China in the 1950' s, which was established by transferring teachers and books and instruments from Tsinghua University and Beijing Petroleum Institute. At the beginning of the Westward Journey, Zhu De personally visited the school and told him: "The country needs talents very much, and it is necessary to train talents as soon as possible." . 1979 Deng Xiaoping handed over the oil drill presented to him by the president of the United States to the school. "There is Beijing Petroleum Institute in the north and Sichuan Petroleum Institute in the south", and the school enrolled the first batch of master students in China in the 1970s. /kloc-in the 1980s, he was awarded the right to confer doctoral degrees, the State Key Laboratory and the first batch of national key disciplines in China; During the period of 1990, it became one of the top 100 universities in China and began to recruit students.

Westward Journey has first-class disciplines, national key disciplines, national key laboratories, national university science park and United Nations technology center. Have the right to examine and approve professors and doctoral supervisors, and have the qualification to directly recruit and send undergraduates to study for doctoral degrees. He has won the special prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award for many times (China's top 60 scientific and technological innovation ability), and the research funding in recent five years is 265,438+47 million yuan. It is a 2 1 1 engineering university jointly established by PetroChina, Sinopec, CNOOC and Sichuan provincial government. It is also a national graduate program to build a high-level university, one of the top 50 universities in China, and one of Chevron 16 cooperative universities (including Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Southwest Petroleum University is a high-level comprehensive key university with world influence in petroleum and natural gas discipline, and is known as "Petroleum Whampoa Military Academy". There are 5,942 doctoral students, and many academicians of China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Engineering have studied here. Westward Journey implements the academic freedom of professors, and the principle of teaching selection requires doctors with working experience in overseas famous schools and enterprises. Every year, the top 65,438+0 students and freshmen in the college entrance examination provinces are sent to overseas universities to study for doctoral degrees, with the goal of rapidly building a world-class international research university with academic advantages.