Panzhihua University is the onlycomprehensive undergraduate college in the Southwest of Sichuan Province and Northwestof Yunnan Province. It is located in Panzhihua city, the only excellent touristcity named after the flower kapok,known for abundant vanadium and titanium, opulent sunshine, and it is a healthresort and an important  way to the South Countries.

There are complete disciplines anddistinct features.The university is one of the 100 application-oriented universitiesin China. Several distinctive schools have been established in recent years,the first School of Health Care in China in 2016, the first Education School ofSocialist Theory with Chinese Characteristics in 2017, and the School of Vanadiumand Titanium in 2018. It offers 52 bachelor programs and41 associate degree programs, within these areas are a wide range ofprograms covering nine branches, namely, science, engineering, literature,laws, economics, management, medicine, fine arts and agriculture,covering higher common education, higher vocational education, secondaryvocational education, and adult higher education. There is one national-levelcharacteristic major, one national-level comprehensive reform pilot project, thirteenprovince-level and ministerial-level advantage majors, seven provincial-levelcharacteristic majors, three provincial-level applied model majors, three provincial-levelcomprehensive reform pilot programs, twelve provincial-level outstanding talenttraining programs, and eleven provincial-level quality courses. In 2016, it waschosen to be in the list of “Education Department • Zhongxing ICT Productionand Education Integration Innovation Project”.

There are 1093 brilliant teachingand administrative staff, in which, the  full-time teachers are 803, thepersons with senior professional and technical posts are363, accounting for45.21% of the total full-time teachers, and people with doctor and masterdegrees are 624, accounting for 77.71% of full-time teachers, 1 professorgetting the State Council special government experts allowance, 2 provincial academicand technical leaders, 1 provincial expert with outstanding contribution, 15 provincialacademic and technical backup professors, and 119 municipal  academic andtechnical leaders and backup men.

The education system is completeand the results are remarkable. There are more than 16,000 full-time undergraduatestudents, postgraduate students and overseas students, and more than 1,500students in secondary technical schools. In recent years, the graduation rateand degree awarding rate of undergraduates have been kept above 90%, and thesatisfaction rate of the employers to the graduates has been kept above 96%. Ithas been awarded as “an excellent unit for employment of college graduates insichuan province” for many years. The university attaches great important onthe students’ innovation and enterprises ability training, then someorganizations are founded for it such as the Entrepreneurship Academy, the collegestudents' innovative undertaking clubs, college students' science andtechnology business incubator park, etc. And some honors have been gained suchas “The first batch university graduates entrepreneurial demonstration park of Sichuanprovince”. Since the 12th five-year plan (2011-2015), more than 500undergraduate innovation experimental projects have been set up, directlybenefiting more than 3,000 students, and 122 student entrepreneurship projectshave been incubated. 37 enterprises have been successfully incubated, and over500 students have been employed. Students have made many achievements invarious discipline competitions and innovation and entrepreneurshipcompetitions, and won 1020 provincial and ministerial level or higher leveldiscipline competitions, including 3 international level awards and 491national awards. In 2014, they won the first prize in the American collegestudents mathematical modeling contest, and in 2015, they won the first prizein the college of national college students mobile Internet entrepreneurshipcompetition.

The university attaches greatimportance to scientific research and has achieved fruitful results. It is modelunit of intellectual property cultivation,  the first batch pilotuniversities of encouraging scientific and technological personnel innovation, andthe first pilot one that the scientific and technical achievement of the unitcan be transformed by the individual in Sichuan province. There are 41 municipalscientific research platform, including 1 national vanadium and titaniumexamination key laboratory, 1 national vanadium titanium incubator, and 25 provincialkey laboratory, such as the lab about vanadium and titanium resourcescomprehensive utilization, and 14 municipal scientific research platform suchas the key laboratory of rock ore, etc. Since the 12th five-year plan(2011-2015), it has undertaken five state-level research projects, 152provincial-level and ministerial-level research projects, with a total of 1,355projects at various levels and a total fees of 72.93 million Yuan. It has won113 provincial and municipal awards for scientific and technologicalachievements, 1637 patents licensing. Furthermore, it has published over 8175academic papers at home and abroad, as well as more than 301 academicmonographs and textbooks. In the fields of the new material of vanadium andtitanium, development of biological resources and solar energy technology, 26scientific and technological achievements have been transformed, with an outputvalue of 500 million Yuan.

PZHU has been attaching great importanceto exchange and corporation and established partnership with many overseascolleges and universities in America, Britain,Canada, Thailand, and the domestic universities such as Sichuan University, theUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology, the Southwest University, XihuaUniversity, etc. we also cooperate with some Southeast Asian and South Asiancountries to carry out overseas student training, cultural exchange andscientific research exchanges, 8 Laotian students have completed their studiesand graduated successfully, and in 2017,  51 students from Pakistan andother countries in clinical medicine were enrolled. In 2018, the School of InternationalEducation (international exchange and cooperation department) is founded, whichwill further promote the school to be more international.

In recent years, the university hasgained many awards, such as “The National Civilized Unit”, “The National May4th Red Flag Youth Corps Committee”, “The National Excellent Unit in Social SummerPractice of College Students”, “ The National Excellent Units for Virescence”, “Thebest Civilized Unit of Sichuan Province ”, “The Model of Research Unit of Highand New Technology Industry of Sichuan Province”, " The Excellent Unit forTalent Development of Sichuan Province”, “The Excellent  Unit for GraduateEmployment of  Sichuan Province”, “The Excellent Unit for  Ideologicaland Political work of  Sichuan Province”, “The Demonstration Base of StrategicTalents of  Sichuan Province”, Etc.

The university should be guided bythe quality of practical personnel as its core, by corporating with theindustry following the trend of transformation to promote personnel training,scientific research, social services, cultural inheritance and innovation,international exchanges and cooperation through practicing the educationalpolicy, adapting to the new normal economic development, integrating into thedevelopment of industry transformation and upgrading and innovation. And at theend of the thirteenth five-year plan, it would be a local high-educational-level university and model of transformation, integration of industry andeducation, technical innovation and achievement transformation, a base of high-qualitypractical personnel cultivating in Southwest Sichuan and Northwest YunnanProvince, a platform of technical innovation and achievement transformation,which would be an idea bank for the  development of the west part of Sichuanprovince, leading the local cultural industry’s heritage, innovation anddevelopment.