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. In April, 1923, the school began to recruit students. 1930 was reorganized into the provincial Donglu University, and 1934 was changed into 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. During the period of 1952, the departments of colleges and universities were adjusted, and disciplines such as law, politics, aviation, civil engineering and railways were merged into Sichuan University, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and other universities at that time, and three colleges of agriculture, medicine and engineering were established independently. As a result, our school became 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 the first batch of national key construction universities in "2 1 1 project", became the key construction university in western development in 5438+0 in 2006, and became the key construction university of the Ministry of Education and the Yunnan provincial government in 2004. In 2006, our school's "2 1 1 Project" and "Tenth Five-Year Plan" passed the acceptance test successfully, 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. At present, there are 2,797 faculty members, full-time teachers 15 17, full-time undergraduates12,869 (excluding two independent colleges17,873), nearly/kloc-0,000 graduate students and nearly 20,000 adult education students. There are 17 colleges, 8 research institutes, 1 public teaching department and 1 foreign students' college, among which the software college is one of the 35 national model software colleges approved by the Ministry of Education, and * * * has 73 undergraduate majors (including 19 provincial key majors); It has 4 national key disciplines, including ethnology, ecology, special history and microbiology, and 37 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 the National Model Software Institute, three national training and scientific research bases for basic disciplines of history, biology and mathematics, the training base for life science and technology talents of the Ministry of Education/kloc-0, the cultural quality education base for college students/kloc-0, two national research centers for humanities and social sciences, the training base for national key laboratories/kloc-0 and two 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 centers.

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 7 1 1,000 square meters; Fixed assets1337,667,500 yuan; The library has 2,694,600 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.

In 2003, our school received 22 million yuan from the "973 Plan" project, making it the 24th university in China to receive the "973 Plan" project, and the first local university to independently apply for and successfully host the "973 Plan" project. In February, 2004, the project "Chengjiang Fauna and Cambrian Outbreak" completed by Hou Xianguang of our school in cooperation with Shu Degan of Northwest University and Chen of Nanjing Institute of Paleontology won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award, which was the only first prize of the national universities, and achieved a breakthrough that our school, our province and even the national universities won the "zero" national natural science award. From June, 5438 to October, 2007 10, Professor Zhang Xiguang and his collaborators, D.J. Siveter, D.Waloszek and A.Maas, published their research paper "Early Cambrian Crustaceans of Upper Limbs" in the academic journal Nature. Due to its outstanding contribution to the study of life evolution, this project was selected as one of the "Top Ten Scientific and Technological Progress of National Universities" in 2007. From June 5, 2008 to 10, Professor Hou Xianguang and his collaborators Derek J.Siveter, Richard J.Aldridge and David J.Siveter published their research paper "Collective Behavior of Early Arthropods in Cambridge" in the natural science academic journal Science.

2 1 century, Yunnan University, as the only local comprehensive university in Yunnan Province that has implemented the national "2 1 1 project", is a national key university for the development of the western region, and the provincial offices have jointly built universities, shouldering a glorious historical mission and an important task of the times. All Dayun people will adhere to the spirit of "a hundred schools of thought contend and win the world" and continue to pursue the policy of "standing at the forefront". Run a characteristic school, seize the opportunity, unite as one, forge ahead with innovation, and make greater contributions to the development of Yunnan's economic construction and the country's implementation of the strategy of developing the western region.