Chengdu Institute of Physical Education
Leshan Normal University is located in a world natural and cultural heritage site, a Chinese tourist destination, and the hometown of world cultural celebrity Guo Moruo - known as "Forest in the City" In "Leshan City, the city is in the mountains and rivers". Founded in 1978, it was approved by the Ministry of Education in March 2000 and was upgraded from the merger of the original Leshan Normal College and Leshan Institute of Education into a provincial general undergraduate college in Sichuan Province. In 2006, it passed the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education and obtained a good grade. In 2012, it was included in the Ministry of Education's "Eastern Universities Counterpart Support to Western Universities Plan" and was constructed with counterpart support from Wuhan University.
As of September 2016, the school covers an area of ??nearly 1,000 acres, with a construction area of ??427,000 square meters, a library collection of 1.43 million books, 9.74 million electronic documents, and teaching and research equipment worth hundreds of millions of yuan. The school has 18 teaching colleges and 54 undergraduate majors, covering nine disciplines: liberal arts, science, engineering, education, economics, management, law, agriculture, and arts. There are 15,774 full-time undergraduate and junior college students. The school is included in the "Special Education School Construction Plan (Phase II)" project unit of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, and the China Disabled Persons' Federation, and has built a special education teacher training base. It has provincial training institutions such as the Sichuan Provincial Continuing Education and Training Center for Primary and Secondary School Teachers and the Sichuan Provincial Continuing Education and Training Center for Special Education Teachers. The school has a national master's degree admissions examination center.
Chengdu Institute of Physical Education, referred to as "Chengti", is located in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, adjacent to the Wuhou Temple, a historical place famous both at home and abroad. A full-time general higher education institution focusing on management. It is also a national-level social sports instructor training base and a training base for foreign aid coaches of the State Sports General Administration. [1] Chengdu Institute of Physical Education was founded in 1942. It was formerly the Sichuan Provincial Sports College. In 1950, the People's Government took over and changed its name to Chengdu Sports College. In 1953, the full organizational structure was transferred to Southwest Physical Education College. In 1956, it was changed to Chengdu Physical Education College. In 1961, it was merged into Chongqing Physical Education College. The school was originally affiliated to the State Sports General Administration. In 2001, it was transferred to a local government and became a full-time general higher education institution jointly established by the State Sports General Administration and the Sichuan Provincial People's Government and mainly managed by Sichuan Province. [1] According to information on the school’s official website in August 2017, the school covers a total area of ??480,000 square meters. The school is a doctorate-granting unit with 16 teaching units in 4 colleges, 9 departments, 1 department, 2 schools. Focusing on undergraduate education, it offers 18 undergraduate majors across 7 disciplines including education, medicine, literature, management, economics, science, and art. There are more than 9,000 full-time undergraduate students and more than 1,100 doctoral and master's students.