Xihua university, referred to as Xihua for short, is located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It has been selected into the national "Basic Capacity Building Project of Universities in the Midwest", the first batch of "New Engineering" research and practice projects of the Ministry of Education, the "Double First-class" construction Gongga plan of universities in Sichuan Province, and the education and training plan of outstanding engineers in Sichuan Province.
Sichuan Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talents Education and Training Plan and Sichuan 20 1 1 Plan are excellent universities in undergraduate teaching evaluation of the Ministry of Education, the first batch of demonstration universities in Sichuan Province to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, and members of the University Alliance of Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle. It is also a comprehensive university with the coordinated development of industry, science, management, law, economics, art, literature, education, agriculture and medicine in Sichuan Province.
Xihua university was founded in 1960 as Sichuan Agricultural Machinery College, 1972 was renamed as Chengdu Agricultural Machinery College, and 1983 was renamed as Sichuan Institute of Technology. In 2003, Sichuan University of Technology and chengdu normal university merged to form xihua university. In 2008, Sichuan Economic Management Cadre College merged.
As of May 2023, the school has five campuses, namely Pidu, Yibin, Pengzhou, Rennan and Yisancang (Thailand), with a campus area of nearly 4,000 mu. There are 2/kloc-0 colleges, 99 undergraduate majors (77 of which will be enrolled in 2023) and 39 master's degree authorization points; There are more than 0/000 senior professional technicians/kloc, and nearly 45,000 full-time students.
At the beginning of 1960, according to 1958 the Political Bureau of the Central Committee's meeting in Chengdu, President Mao Zedong put forward the spirit that "the fundamental way out for agriculture lies in mechanization", the central government decided to set up comprehensive agricultural machinery colleges in seven administrative regions of China, and the Sichuan Provincial Committee decided to establish Sichuan Agricultural Machinery College.
On February 19, the Party Group of Sichuan Higher Education Bureau and the Party Group of Sichuan Agricultural Machinery Department reported the Request for Instructions on Establishing Sichuan Agricultural Machinery College to the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee. On March 4th, the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee approved the "Establishment Plan of Sichuan Agricultural Machinery College" issued by the Higher Education Bureau and the Ministry of Agricultural Machinery, and decided to enroll 300 students that year, and set up two majors, namely agricultural machinery design and manufacturing and agricultural production process mechanization, and reported them to the Ministry of Agricultural Machinery.