Panzhihua University (Abbreviated as PZHU) is the only one comprehensive university of higher learning ratified by National Ministry of Education and mainly focusing on engineering courses in the southwestern Sichuan province and on the northwestern Yuannan Province. The school is located in Panzhihua, well known as the capital of Vanadium and Titanium, the biggest base of iron and steel industry in western china.

　　PZHU covers an area of 683,644 square meters including a total building area of 331,000 square meters. The fixed assets of the school are over 418 million RMB Yuan. The collection of books in the library is more than 777,600 volumes. The total value of the teaching equipment is 66.55 million RMB. Presently there are 855 faculty and staff members. Among the 609 professional teachers, 25 are professors and 162 are associate professors, 183 are postgraduates and doctors (including candidates for the masters degrees and PhDs). 2 foreign teachers are now working in our university. There are 16 schools and departments providing undergraduate courses in 27 specialties, junior college education and services in 32 specialties, totally more than 50 majors. The 16 schools and departments are: Information and Electrical Engineering School, Electromechanical Engineering School, Civil Engineering School, Computer Science School, Humanities and Social Science School, School of Foreign Languages and cultures, Economic Administrative School, Art School, Engineering Technology School, Materials Engineering Department, Chemistry and Biology Engineering Department, Medical Science Department, Mathematics and Physics Department, Physical Education Department, Quality Education Center and Modern Education and Technology Center. Currently, PZHU offers a wide range of programs covering seven branches of learning such as science, engineering, liberal arts, law, economics, management, and medical science. The University now has a total enrollment of 10,119 students including undergraduate and college students. In addition there are 4,000 adult students. The students are from all over the country (31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government). PZHU has now formed the pattern of focusing on engineering and combining with different disciplines, harmonizing and developing higher education, higher vocational education and adult higher education.

　　From years of experience running the university, PZHU has gradually set up two chief principles: “Education quality is the basic of running a first-class school” and “The purpose of running the school is to adopt to the market”. PZHU has abided by the educational rules and market pattern to instruct students and run the school. We meet the need and the goal of the local economy and social development for advanced talents, abide by the requirements of educating the undergraduate students, deepening educational and instructional reforms, and improve quality education. As a result, we set up and perfect the system of curriculum arrangement, curriculum contents, practical instruction and assessment for students’ schoolwork, which are suitable to the undergraduate education. PZHU has paid close attention to developing the individual spirit and pioneering capability in the students so that they can grow up into advanced applied experts. In the past 20 years, nearly 20 thousand students have graduated from our school. They are popular in the employers because of their excellent comprehensive quality. And PZHU has been awarded the Advanced Unit of the Work of Students Employment in Sichuan province.

　　The school has perfect guarantee system of practical instruction with over 70 inner teaching experimental laboratories for basic courses and 7 laboratories for specialized courses as well as 1 provincial key lab and 100 practice bases, 7 outer school professional technical experimental labs and 85 practice bases co-constructed with the big enterprises in Panzhihua sharing 26 million RMB of assets with our school, which have formed the perfect practical education system. The school will spend 53 million RMB on building 16 professional labs, 7 engineering training centers, which can ensure 100% basic experiments and 91% professional experiments being carried out there. The method for the school management and the means of education has been fully modernized. PZHU owns a perfect modern teaching system of an Experiment and Practice Center, a Multi-media Instruction Center, an Audio-Visual Instruction Center, a CAI (Computer-aided Instruction) Teaching Disc Design Center, and over 20 multi-media classrooms. The campus intranet system is connected to CERNET and INTERNET covering all the campus offices, classrooms, labs, and dormitories (of the students and teachers).