Yunnan University Located in Kunming, Yunnan Province, Yunda (yunu) is one of the earliest comprehensive universities in Western China. It is one of the first batch of 42 world-class universities in China. It is listed as a national key university directly under the Ministry of education and jointly built by the Ministry of education and Yunnan Province. It ranks among the national "double first-class", "211 Project", "one province, one school" and comprehensive universities in central and Western China He has been selected into the national "111 plan", excellent legal personnel education and training plan, excellent engineer education and training plan, national construction high-level university public postgraduate program, Chinese government scholarship to receive foreign students in China. He is a member of the national key construction universities (z14) alliance of "one province, one university" in central and Western China It is the leading unit of South Asia Association of Southeast Asian universities and has a graduate school.Yunnan University was founded in 1922 as a private Donglu University. It was renamed provincial Yunnan University in 1934 and national Yunnan University in 1938. It is one of the earliest comprehensive universities in the western frontier of China. In 1946, Encyclopedia Britannica listed Yunnan University as one of the 15 most influential universities in China. In 1958, Yunnan University was put under the management of Yunnan Province by the central Ministry of higher education. In 1978, Yunnan University was designated by the State Council as one of the 88 key universities in China.According to the official website of the University in January 2020, the university has two campuses, Chenggong and Donglu, covering an area of 4363.64 mu, with a building area of more than 1 million square meters, and a library collection of more than 3.7 million books. It has 27 colleges, 14 research institutions, a public course teaching department, 2 independent colleges, 1 Affiliated Hospital, a graduate school, 76 undergraduate majors, and 2971 teaching staff, among whom there are professional colleges There are 2497 professional and technical posts, 10 academicians (including double employment and special employment), 16976 full-time undergraduate students, 7595 postgraduates and 1108 doctoral students.