There are eight first-class universities in Sichuan, including Sichuan University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Southwest Jiaotong University, Southwest Petroleum University, Sichuan Agricultural University, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu University of Technology and Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

The significance of the construction of double first-class universities in Sichuan;

In order to promote the overall participation and improvement of ordinary colleges and universities in Sichuan Province, they all have a sense of participation and gain in the construction of "double first-class". Sichuan province gives overall support to universities directly under the central government and provincial universities, and implements dynamic management, performance appraisal and identity solidification.

The main tasks of building world-class universities and disciplines are to strengthen the construction of talent teams, improve the ability of independent innovation, aim at the major national needs and the frontiers of international scientific research, and closely combine the key areas and priority themes, cutting-edge technologies, basic research and major projects determined by the national development strategy.

In the face of major theoretical and practical problems in national economic construction and social development, efforts have been made to improve the ability of independent innovation and achievement transformation, undertake major national scientific research tasks and solve major problems in national economic and social development, resulting in a number of original innovation research, engineering application research and philosophical and social science research achievements with great influence.