Xichang College is located in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, the largest Yi inhabited area in China. It is the first batch of pilot colleges for overall transformation in Sichuan Province, and 100 national applied undergraduate colleges for promoting educational modernization. It is also the only newly-built undergraduate college jointly established by provinces, ministries and commissions in China.
Xichang College has a long history. The school was founded on 1939. Beiyang Institute of Technology moved in and founded the National Xikang Institute of Technology. With the school philosophy of "emphasizing agriculture and light industry, emphasizing experiments", the school offers majors such as agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, civil engineering, mining and metallurgy engineering, mechanical engineering and medicine. It has a long history of running a school and has distinct characteristics of practical education.
After several changes, in 2003, the Ministry of Education approved the merger of Xichang Agricultural College, Xichang Normal College, Liangshan University and Liangshan Education College to form Xichang College. 20 15 was listed as the first batch of pilot units for overall transformation, development and reform in Sichuan Province. 20 100 was listed as the national education modernization promotion project 100 construction unit of application-oriented undergraduate colleges. In 2020, it officially became a university jointly established by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Education and the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.
The school's insistence on "basing itself on the local area, integrating into the local area and serving the local area" is an indispensable and important force for Liangshan's economic and social development. In addition, the school also actively carries out foreign cooperation and exchanges, and cooperates with more than 100 domestic and foreign enterprises such as Xichang Steel Vanadium, Sichuan Zhongyan Industrial Co., Ltd. and Shenzhen Fang Xun Technology Co., Ltd. to carry out school-enterprise collaborative education, implement order-based talent training, and build a new engineering industrial college.
The school cooperates with Central University for Nationalities, Guangzhou University, Sichuan Agricultural University, xihua university, China West Normal University, Chengdu University of Information Technology and other universities to carry out personnel training and scientific research; Signed a cooperation agreement with the University of Palermo, Italy, and sent nearly 100 key teachers and management cadres abroad for exchange visits; At present, international students from Pakistan, Yemen, Morocco, Chad, Gabon and Rwanda are studying in this school.
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