A copy. The German Department of the School of Foreign Languages of Southwest Jiaotong University was founded in 1997. In 2000, it began to recruit graduate students majoring in German language and literature. Southwest Jiaotong University, located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC) and a national "double-class" construction university.