Chengdu University was established with the approval of the Ministry of Education in 1978 and has inherited a century of school history. It is an undergraduate college jointly built by Sichuan Province and Chengdu City, and is a comprehensive university focused on construction in Chengdu, the national central city. The college where the athlete village of the 31st World University Summer Games in 2021 is located. Sichuan Class A Antibiotic Industry Research Institute, a national-level antibiotic research and development base with a century-old Class A comprehensive hospital. The school has the right to award bachelor's and master's degrees, and has a post-doctoral practice base. The school is a college of the Ministry of Education's "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program", a Ministry of Education's national defense education characteristic university, a Ministry of Education's "Double Ten Thousand Plan" first-class undergraduate professional construction project establishment unit, and a Sichuan province doctoral degree authorized construction unit.

In the 40 years since its establishment, the school has taken root in Chengdu, based in Sichuan, serving the whole country, and facing the world. Following the major development strategies of the country and the region, especially Chengdu, it is committed to reform and rapid development. Adhering to the motto of Chengda University of "self-love, self-cultivation, self-esteem and self-improvement", the spirit of Chengda University of "seeking truth and being pragmatic and self-improvement", the style of Chengda University of "Yacheng Dade, Hengcheng Daqi", centered on the distinctive characteristics and first-class domestic Application-oriented city university positioning, implementation of the three major development strategies of "talent strategy, distinctive strategy and internationalization strategy", focusing on the characteristics of talent cultivation of "school-city integration, open coordination, and regional application". The school has contributed to the national economic construction and society More than 150 thousand talents of various types have been trained and developed.

Subjects and disciplines The school focuses on the core qualities of high-quality applied talents, scientific and technological development, and industrial progress. It sets up sciences and disciplines in scientific planning and continuously promotes the integration of disciplines and disciplines. There are currently 10 disciplines in art, literature, management, education, economics, law, engineering, medicine, science, and agronomy, with 60 undergraduate majors. At present, there are 2 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degree, 7 professional degree categories, and a post-doctoral innovation practice base. It was approved in 2017 to become a Sichuan province doctoral degree authorized project construction unit. The pharmacy discipline was selected as China's high-level discipline by the Alumni Association in 2019, ranking second in the province; 13 majors such as tourism management were selected as national and provincial first-class majors in the "Double Ten Thousand Plan" in 2019.

Faculty Team The school takes the "four have" teachers as the standard, continues to increase the introduction of excellent talents, improves the management and development mechanism of teachers, promotes noble teacher ethics, and continuously stimulates the vitality of teacher professional development. There are more than 1,400 full-time teachers, including more than 190 professional titles, more than 450 deputy professional titles, and more than 500 doctors. The school vigorously implements the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, and the contingent of high-level talents continues to grow. Fan Daiming, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was specially appointed as the honorary principal, and 7 Nobel Prize winners were specially appointed as honorary professors. The school has 9 talents including Yangtze River Scholars, National Jieqing, National Thousand Talents Plan Experts, and National Ten Thousand Talents Plan experts. 1 well-known international scholar on the list of "Highly Cited Scholars", Special Allowance Expert of the State Council, National-level Candidate for Ten Thousand Million Talents Project of the New Century, Leader of the Innovation Team of the "Changjiang Scholars and Innovation Team Development Program" by the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Education There are more than 50 high-end talents including outstanding talents in the new century, academic and technical leaders and their candidates in Sichuan Province, outstanding experts with outstanding contributions in Sichuan Province, famous teachers in Sichuan Province, and experts in the “Thousand Talents Program” in Sichuan Province. The school also employs more than 130 outstanding professors, high-end foreign experts, and researchers.

Talent Training The school closely centers on the establishment of moral people, adheres to the fundamentals, fully implements the four regressions, intensifies education and teaching reform, builds an open and flexible curriculum system and a learning support system, and cultivates high-quality applied talents. The school currently has more than 24,000 full-time students (including more than 1,400 graduate students and nearly 900 international students). The quality of students in the school continues to improve. In 2019, 12 majors are enrolled in Sichuan, Gansu, Henan, and Xinjiang undergraduates, and 90.46% of the liberal arts students in the province have higher scores than the first line. The school's food science and engineering majors and automation majors have passed the certification of China's education majors. There are 7 national-level specialties, comprehensive reform pilot majors, and excellence plan pilot majors. There are 1 national first-class majors in the "Double Ten Thousand Plan" and excellent resource sharing courses. There are 2 engineering practice education centers, 2 off-campus practice education bases for college students, 85 cooperative industry-academic cooperative education projects of the Ministry of Education, and 201 college student innovation and entrepreneurship training program projects; there are provincial-level specialty, comprehensive reform pilot major, and excellence plan pilot 27 professional and application-oriented demonstration majors, 12 provincial-level top-level majors under the "Double Ten Thousand Plan", 42 boutique courses (boutique open courses, boutique resource sharing courses, boutique online open courses), 6 innovation and entrepreneurship education demonstration courses, applications 5 model demonstration courses, 28 provincial-level teaching reform projects approved in 2019, 3 off-campus practice education bases for college students, 4 teaching teams, 2 innovative experiment areas for talent training models, and 626 innovation and entrepreneurship training program projects for college students; In the two sessions, he won 5 first-class awards of educational and teaching achievements in Sichuan Province. In the past five years, students have won 861 national competition awards and 1283 provincial awards. In 2019, there are 449 professors and associate professors who teach undergraduate courses. The proportion of professors and associate professors teaching undergraduate courses is 33.87%, and the rate of professors is 87.18%. In the past five years, students have won 1,057 national-level subject competition awards and 1,578 provincial-level awards. The school has been awarded the "Outstanding Organization Award of the "Internet + Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition" for five consecutive years. In the past five years, the average employment rate of school graduates has been above 95%. The achievements of student apartment work "Building a high-quality "three rooms and one hall +", building a "four beautiful" education system, building an apartment ideological and political highland" won the national university student apartment work The first prize for innovation achievements, student affairs services have been demonstrated nationwide. The school has a top-notch innovative talent cultivation base-Zhang Lan College, the first graduate examination entrance rate is 82%, and the national online rate is 93%; the Innovation and Entrepreneurship College is the first batch of "Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Course Experimental Center" in the country Create a space and be selected as one of the "100 Featured Spaces in China". The school ranks 93rd in the 2019 Chinese University Entrepreneurship Competitiveness Ranking. Since the establishment of the school, the school has trained more than 100,000 talents of various types for the society, all over the country and at home and abroad, especially in the Chengdu-Chongqing area. Alumni of Chengda University have made outstanding achievements in the fields of science and technology, education, culture, and enterprises. The economic construction and development of society has made outstanding contributions.

Scientific research school focuses on the national economic and social development strategy layout, focusing on adapting to regional industrial clusters, key pillar industries and emerging industries, and continuously improving the level of scientific research services and supporting capabilities. At present, there are more than 1,200 scientific researchers and 15 provincial and ministerial science and technology platforms. In the past five years, it has undertaken 14 national key research and development plans and major special projects, 87 national natural science funds (including 1 key project, 15 general projects), 27 national social science funds, 6 national art funds, etc. 135 national projects. The number of projects approved by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Fund ranks among the top ten universities in the province, and the number of projects approved by the National Arts Fund ranks among the top three universities in the province. In the past five years, research funding has exceeded 500 million yuan, including self-study funding of more than 416 million yuan, social science funding of more than 151 million yuan, and an average annual research funding of more than 113 million yuan. Enterprise research funding is 207 million yuan, and technical cooperation and transfer income is 114 million yuan. "Ultra-long life fatigue crack initiation mechanism and life prediction" won the second prize of the 2018 National Natural Science Award, "Key technology and industrialization of acarbose raw material and preparation production" won the second prize of the 2014 National Science and Technology Progress Award, "" "Sanli" Research on Famous Things and Words" was selected in 2015 "National Philosophy and Social Science Achievements Library". In the past five years, it has won 56 scientific research awards at the provincial and ministerial level and above, including 7 first prizes, 9 second prizes and 39 third prizes. In the past five years, he published more than 1,400 SCI articles (more than 15% were published in international cooperation), more than 400 CSSCI articles, more than 500 monographs, and obtained more than 1,000 patent authorizations. In the latest Nature Index list released in 2020, it is ranked 6th in Sichuan universities, 166th in national universities, and 823th in global universities. Several papers have been selected as ESI highly cited and hot papers, and have been published in "Nature Sub-Journal", "New England Medical Journal", "The Lancet", "German Applied Chemistry" and other top international academic journals. It has been cited more than 9000 times. Since 2014, Professor Wang Qingyuan has been included in China's "Highly Cited Scholars" list for six consecutive years.