China West Normal University (CWNU) is the oldest established teachers-training university in Sichuan province, which grew out of the Northern Sichuan Agricultural and IndustrialCollege founded in 1946. Situated in the city of Nanchong, the economic & cultural center of northeastern Sichuan, on the middle reach of JialingRiver, famously known as "SilkCity", CWNU has an excellent reputation owing to its beautiful scenery, abundant teaching resources, excellent academic atmosphere and superb research facilities.

    Currently CWNU consists of two campuses, a new campus with magnificent beauty and the original one with charming features, covering a total area of 2,500 mu with constructed area of 903,400 square meters. The university has many kinds of functional classrooms, with an area of 104,000 square meters. Experimental building has an area of 110,000 square meters including respective laboratory buildings for both Arts and Science colleges, college of Fin Art, college of Music, school-owned museum and a SpecimenBuilding. In addition, two libraries possess a total collection of 2,226,000 volumes and 7,740 varieties of magazines and newspapers. The whole university is fully equipped from the orderly�Cmanaged dormitories and five convenient dining halls or cafeteria, to various teaching and training facilities for physical education, including track-and �Cfield stadiums, multifunctional gymnasiums, courts, playing fields and swimming pools.

    With undergraduate education as the basis, teachers training as main task and our feature, as well as postgraduate education and scientific researches as forerunners, CWNU, over the past sixty years, has attached very great importance to its multidisciplinary and comprehensive development. Up to now it has become the largest-scaled university which offers the most diversified subjects in northeastern Sichuan. Thus the university has been successively honored as an important research center of education development, a key training base for qualified middle school teachers, and the provincial training center for teachers' further education.