The school is located in Chongqing, the economic and cultural transportation center of southwest China. Southwest University was founded in 1906. In 2005, it was formed by the merger of Southwest Normal University, a key university directly under the former Ministry of Education, and Southwest Agricultural University, a key university directly under the former Ministry of Agriculture. It turned out that the two schools were built adjacent to each other and of the same origin. It started in the thirty-second year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1906) and opened a new school in China in the southwest. After several developments, it has become a Southwest University directly under the Ministry of Education, with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Chongqing * * *, and its current address isNo. 1 Tiansheng Road, Beibei District, Chongqing.
The predecessor of Southwest University is the former Southwest Normal University and the former Southwest Agricultural University. The former Southwest Normal University is one of the six key normal universities directly under the Ministry of Education. It is one of the four famous old normal universities in China, and it is also the largest and strongest normal university in the western region.
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