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Southwest University of Political Science and Law is the earliest institution of higher learning of political science and law in New China. After the reform and opening up, the first batch of national key universities, the first batch of national education and training bases for outstanding legal talents, the Ministry of Education and the Chongqing Municipal People's Government * * * set up scholarships for overseas students from universities and the China Municipal Government to entrust training institutions, and the second phase of the Central and Western Universities Basic Ability Enhancement Plan was selected as universities.
The school, formerly known as Southwest People's Revolutionary University, was founded in 1950, and its president is Liu Bocheng. 1953, Southwest College of Political Science and Law was established on the basis of the Department of Political Science and Law of Southwest People's Revolutionary University. The first chairman was General Zhou Baozhong, the national hero of the Anti-Japanese War and the former commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition.
1978, approved by the State Council as a national key university; 1993, approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee as the authorized unit for doctoral degrees; 1995, renamed Southwest University of Political Science and Law with the approval of the former State Education Commission. In 2003, it was approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee as the first batch of authorized units for doctoral degrees in the first-class discipline of law in China; In 2004, with the approval of the Ministry of Personnel, a law postdoctoral mobile station was established. 20 12 was approved by the Ministry of Education as a pilot university for independent enrollment in March.
In August of the same year, it was approved by the Central Political and Legal Committee and the Ministry of Education to become the first batch of excellent legal talent education and training bases; In June of the same year, it became a university approved by the Ministry of Education and the Chongqing Municipal People's Government. 20 16 was selected as the national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Universities in the Midwest"; 20 17 was selected as a first-class discipline construction university in Chongqing.
After 68 years of hard work, the school has been adhering to the motto of "erudition, faithfulness, morality and law", adhering to the school-running concept of "building a school through teaching, strengthening the school through scientific research and managing the school according to law", and gradually condensing the school-running spirit of "keeping the world in mind, striving for self-improvement, harmony and seeking truth".
It has formed a multi-level and multi-type talent training pattern, which focuses on law, with the coordinated development of philosophy, economics, literature, management, engineering and other disciplines, from undergraduate education to master's and doctoral education, continuing education and international student education. The school has Shapingba Campus, Yubei Campus and Baoshenghu Campus, covering an area of more than 3,000 mu. Among them, Yubei Campus is the teaching center for undergraduate and postgraduate education, and Shapingba Campus is the base for continuing education and cadre training.
The school now has Civil and Commercial Law (Intellectual Property College), Economic Law School (Ecological Law School), Law School, Administrative Law School (Supervisory Law School), International Law School, Criminal Investigation College (National Security College), Business School (Supervisory Audit College), Economics College, Foreign Languages College, Journalism and Communication College, Politics and Public Administration College, Marxism College and Artificial Intelligence Law School (China Applied Law School).
Establish an innovation and entrepreneurship college to manage the innovation and entrepreneurship education of the whole school; A continuing education college (training college) was established to co-ordinate the adult education and cadre training of the whole school. The school has students who walk, high-level athletes, Tibetan classes in the mainland, Xinjiang classes in the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and overseas Chinese joint enrollment, Hong Kong students who are exempt from exams, Macao students who walk and independent enrollment.
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