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＊此PDF为预览版本，请勿用于印刷。 校徽标识基本图 SICHUAN UNIVERSITY A 120-year journey to education and research excellence Advertisement Feature as seen in Nature, 22nd September 2016 Published for Sichuan University by the Partnership and Custom Media unit of , part of Springer Nature. OVERVIEW A gateway to discovery o mark the 120th anniversary and celebrate the start has now set its sights on becoming one of the world’s first-class of the next stage of a brilliant journey, now is a time to research universities. Treflect on the great strides made by Sichuan University SCU has three campuses in Chengdu, sprawling across 7,050 (SCU). It is one of China’s longest established modern univer- mu (470 hectares). It has 33 colleges, offering a comprehensive sities with a history that can be traced back to the founding of range of disciplines, covering humanities, science, engineering, Sichuan Sino-Western School in 1896, set up under the rule of management, medicine, law, agriculture, education and arts. It Qing Dynasty Emperor, Guangxu. The current SCU was born of is authorized by the state to grant doctoral degrees in 44 disci- two mergers, first in 1994, with the former Chengdu University plines. According to Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indica - of Science and Technology, and then in 2000 with the former tors (ESI), 13 of its disciplines are ranked among the global top West China University of Medical Sciences. 1% and chemistry is ranked among top 1‰ globally. With 5,238 Located in Chengdu, the culture-steeped capital of Sichuan full-time faculty members, including 1,051 full professors, 1,230 province, SCU is a national key university under the direct ad - associate professors and 15 members of the Chinese Academy of