Southwest University, founded in 1906, is located in Chongqing. It is a comprehensive university directly under the Ministry of Education of China jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Chongqing Municipal Government. It is a "double-first-class" world-class discipline construction university, and ranks as the innovation platform of 21engineering and 985 engineering advantage disciplines.
The school was selected into11/plan, 20 1 1 plan, excellent agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan, excellent teacher training plan, national postgraduate program for building high-level universities, national college students' cultural quality education base, one of seven free normal education universities, national independent selection and enrollment reform pilot universities, and China municipal government.
During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, there were more than 900 national scientific research projects, and the total scientific research funds reached 2.035 billion yuan. It has won more than 700 national projects such as "973" project, "863" project (subject), national key R&D plan project and national major cultural project, and granted more than 0/000 patents.
Southwest University has 1 National Key Laboratory, 1 National Engineering Technology Research Center, 1 National Key Laboratory Cultivation Base established by Ministry of Education or Ministry of Agriculture,1Key Laboratory, three engineering research centers of Ministry of Education and "1plan". There are 2 scientific observation experimental stations of the Ministry of Agriculture, 2 field bases of the Ministry of Land and Resources, National University Science Park 1, Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education 1, and Chongqing Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences 13.
With a building area of about 66,000 square meters, Southwest University Library is the largest library in western China, including the Central Library, Hong Wen Library (formerly Southwest Normal University Library), Shi Chong Library (formerly Southwest Agricultural University Library), Rongchang Campus Library and other independent subject libraries (Law Library, Economic Management Branch Library, Zhuyuan Park Reading Room), and more than 4.62 million paper documents (465,438+paper books).