Southwest University was founded in July 2005, which was formed by the merger of the former Southwest Normal University and the former Southwest Agricultural University. It turned out that the two schools were built adjacent to each other and of the same origin. Originated from China New School-Chuandong Normal School, which was opened in the southwest of China in the 32nd year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1906). After several developments, it has become today's Southwest University.
Southwest University is surrounded by mountains and rivers with picturesque scenery, with a total area of about 9,600 mu and a school building area of about 6,543.8+0.58 million square meters. The school has complete disciplines, strong comprehensiveness and obvious characteristics, covering philosophy, economics, law, literature, history, education, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management, etc. 1 1 disciplines. The school consists of 30 colleges, with 5 national key disciplines, 36 provincial (municipal) key disciplines, 1 1 postdoctoral research mobile station, 9 first-class doctoral programs, 68 doctoral programs, 22 first-class master programs, and1master programs. The school has more than 50,000 students, including 40,000 undergraduates and 8,300 master's and doctoral students. There are more than 2,600 full-time teachers in the school, including academicians of China Academy of Sciences 1 person, 2 academicians of China Academy of Engineering, more than 65,438 professors and associate professors (including researchers and associate researchers) +0 100, and more than 65,438 doctoral supervisors.
The school has strong scientific research strength, including Beibei National University Science Park, 1 National Engineering Technology Research Center, 1 Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of Ministry of Education, 5 Key Laboratories of Ministry of Education and Agriculture, 1 Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education, 12 Chongqing Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences, 28 key laboratories of provinces (cities) and 65500. In the past two years, new breakthroughs have been made in national projects such as the National 973 Plan, the National 863 Plan and the National Science and Technology Support Plan, and breakthroughs have been made in high-level projects such as the National Social Science Fund Project, the major research project of philosophy and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, and the major annual research project of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education. * * * Received national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects10.5 million, with a total funding of nearly 200 million yuan; Won provincial and ministerial level science and technology awards 17, and more than 80 provincial and ministerial level outstanding achievement awards in humanities and social sciences. The results of silkworm gene chip and expression map were selected as "Top Ten Domestic Science and Technology News in 2006".
The school has always attached great importance to the cultivation of talents, and has always taken the cultivation of high-quality talents with innovative spirit and practical ability as its school purpose. According to the teaching philosophy of "attaching importance to personality shaping, emphasizing comprehensive training, strengthening practical training and serving people's livelihood", the school actively explores the talent training mode that adapts to economic and social development and constantly strengthens the central position of teaching. For a long time, the school has trained more than 200,000 outstanding graduates for the country. Generation after generation of students love the motherland, explore the truth and make outstanding contributions to national construction and social development. The school is the "National College Students' Cultural Quality Education Base". Over the years, we have attached great importance to students' comprehensive quality education, vigorously carried forward the university spirit of "learning from the southwest", actively promoted the "College Students' Quality Development Plan", carried out colorful campus cultural activities, social practice activities and public service activities, and advocated elegant art to enter the campus, thus forming campus cultural brand activities such as college students' art festival, science and technology culture festival and comprehensive quality competition. School 1999 was awarded the honorary title of "National Advanced Unit of Spiritual Civilization Construction" by the Central Civilization Committee in the first batch; 1994, 1999 and 2005 were commended by the State Council as "national model unit of national unity and progress" for three consecutive times; Since 1987, the school has been awarded "National Advanced Collective of Social Practice for College Students" by the Propaganda Department of the CPC, the Ministry of Education and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League for 19 times.
The school attaches importance to international exchanges and cooperation. The school has carried out academic exchanges and scientific research cooperation with universities and scientific research institutions in nearly 20 countries or regions such as the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Australia and Russia, and established long-term friendly cooperative relations with more than 40 foreign universities and scientific research institutions.
It is the eternal pursuit of Southwest University to promote the altar and educate people, persuade them to learn agriculture and mulberry, learn to govern the country and serve the people's livelihood. Adhering to the motto of "connecting the past with the future", Southwest University takes talent training as the center, discipline construction as the leader, team building as the guarantee, and scientific and technological innovation as the support, and is committed to development and construction. Together with Qixin, the whole school is striving for the goal of a high-level comprehensive university with distinctive characteristics!
With a history of more than 80 years, Yunnan University is one of the earliest comprehensive universities in western China. Its predecessor, private Hokuriku University, was founded by Tang, then governor of Yunnan, in 1922 and 65438+February. 1enrollment began in April, 923, 1930, the school was reorganized into the provincial Donglu University, 1934, it was changed to the provincial Yunnan University. From 65438 to 0937, the famous mathematician Professor Xiong Qinglai became the president, and Yunnan University ushered in the most glorious period in history. 1938, Yunnan university was changed from provincial to national. During his tenure, Xiong Qinglai invited a large number of famous scholars, such as Fei Xiaotong and Chu Tunan, to teach in the school, which gradually developed into a comprehensive university with great influence at home and abroad. 1946, The Concise Encyclopedia Britannica listed Yunnan University as one of the fifteen world-famous universities in China. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Yunnan University has developed into a large-scale institution of higher learning with a complete range of disciplines such as literature, law, science, engineering, agriculture and medicine. The adjustment of departments began with 1952. The discipline of law and politics was merged into Sichuan University, Southwest University of Political Science and Law and other universities, while the three colleges of agriculture, medicine and engineering were established independently. In this way, our school has become a relatively simple comprehensive liberal arts university with basic disciplines as the mainstay. 65438-0958 Our school was sent to Yunnan Province by the Ministry of Education.
After the reform and opening up, especially since the 1990s, Yunnan University has accelerated its development. 1996 Yunnan university became one of the national "2 1 1 engineering" key universities during the ninth five-year plan period. Taking this as an opportunity, the school put forward the idea of "basing on the frontier, serving Yunnan and running a school with its own characteristics", with the construction of "2 1 1 project" as the leader, the reform as the driving force, the party building and ideological and political work as the guarantee, and the school work closely combined with local economic and social development, which made Yunnan University enter the best and fastest development period after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In June, 20001,the "21project" and the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" of our school passed the acceptance inspection, which was highly praised by the expert group and praised by the leaders of the Ministry of Education.
At present, Yunnan University has become a national key comprehensive university with the characteristics of ethnology and ecology, with relatively complete disciplines such as literature, history, philosophy, economics, management, engineering, science, law and teaching, and dense talents. There are 2,723 faculty members, full-time teachers 1475, full-time undergraduates12,468 (excluding students from three independent colleges15,379), nearly 7,000 graduate students and nearly 20,000 adult students. There are 16 colleges, 7 research institutes, 3 public teaching departments and 1 international students' colleges, among which the software college is one of the 35 national-level demonstration software colleges approved by the Ministry of Education, and * * has 69 undergraduate majors (including 1 1 provincial key majors); It has 4 national key disciplines, including ethnology, ecology, special history and microbiology, and 36 provincial key disciplines. There are 3 first-class disciplines, 53 doctoral programs in two disciplines, 4 postdoctoral research stations in ethnology, history, biology and mathematics, 1 enterprise postdoctoral research station, 23 first-class disciplines, 158 master's degrees, and 4 professional master's degrees in MBA, MPA, engineering and law. It has a national model software institute, three national basic disciplines talent training and research bases of history, biology and mathematics, the Ministry of Education 1 life science and technology talent training base, 1 national college students' cultural quality education base, and two national humanities and social science research centers. 1 province and department * * * Construction of national key laboratory training bases, 2 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 2 provincial key laboratories, 3 provincial high-tech innovative talents training bases, 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 4 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national Linux technical training and promotion center.
The school now covers an area of 211mu, including 568 mu in the headquarters and 543 mu in Yangpu Campus. The construction area of public school buildings is 860,000 square meters; Fixed assets145.069 million yuan; The library has more than 2.57 million books; The school has a publishing house, hosting more than ten kinds of academic journals such as Ideological Front and Journal of Yunnan University (natural science edition, social science edition and law edition). The school has maintained long-term exchanges and cooperation with nearly 100 universities and research institutions in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Japan, Taiwan Province Province and other countries and regions.
2 1 century, Yunnan University, as the only local comprehensive university in Yunnan that implemented the national "2 1 1 project", was supported by the western region of the country and built provincial offices, shouldering a glorious historical mission and an important task of the times. All Dayun people will adhere to the Dayun spirit of "a hundred schools of thought contend and the world is public" and continue to pursue the policy of "standing at the forefront"