Southwest University, called Xida for short, is located in Chongqing. It is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of China, jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Chongqing Municipal People's Government. It is a "double-first-class" world-class discipline construction university, which ranks among the national innovation platforms of 21project and 985 project, and has been selected into1/plan and 201/plan.

The education and training plan for outstanding agricultural and forestry talents, the training plan for outstanding teachers, the 100-school project and the national postgraduate plan for building a high-level university are one of the seven universities offering free normal education. China is one of the universities that independently selected the pilot universities for admission reform, and one of the founding schools of Chongqing University Alliance, which accepted the scholarship of China government for overseas students in China.