Xihua university, referred to as Xihua for short, is located in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It is a key university supported by the basic capacity building project of universities in the central and western regions of the country. It has been selected into the first batch of "new engineering" research and practice projects of the Ministry of Education, the excellent universities evaluated by the Ministry of Education, and the first batch of demonstration universities in Sichuan Province to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education.
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 June, 2022, the school has four campuses, namely Headquarters, Pengzhou, Rennan and Yibin, with a campus area of nearly 4,000 mu and a library collection of 6,543,800+006,000 volumes (pieces). With 1000 senior professional and technical personnel; There are 2 1 college, 77 undergraduate majors, 2 1 first-class disciplines with master's degree authorization, 14 two disciplines master's degree authorization points and 18 professional master's degree authorization categories; There are more than 45,000 full-time students.
As of June, 20 19, the school has more than 960 professors, associate professors and other senior professional and technical personnel, including more than 40 leaders of the "Ten Thousand Talents Program" of the Central Organization Department19, national-level candidates for the 100 million talents project in the new century, experts with special government subsidies from the State Council, academic and technical leaders and other experts, and employs more than 70 academicians from China Academy of Sciences and China Academy of Engineering and domestic experts as distinguished professor.