China West Normal University is located in Nanchong, Sichuan. It is a key provincial university in Sichuan and one of the first batch of universities with first-class discipline construction. Founded in 1946 and named in 2003, its disciplines cover 10 major categories, offering 2 doctoral programmes and 20 master's programmes. Five of its disciplines are ranked in the top 1% globally by ESI. The university has a distinctive teacher-training focus, strong faculty, and over 38,000 full-time students, serving as an important training base for basic education in Sichuan.