Sichuan Normal University (SNU) is a full-time comprehensive provincial key university, established in 1946. The origin of SNU can be traced back to the China Northeast University (CNEU) when it moved to Santai County, Sichuan Province in 1938. After the War of Resistance Against Japan (1937-1945), CNEU moved back to Northeast China. However, some CNEU faculty and staff stayed in Sichuan, and in 1946, they established Northern Sichuan Workers and Peasants College on the same site. Later, it was renamed as Northern Sichuan University and moved to Nanchong City. In 1952, during the period of the merger of universities and colleges across the country, Sichuan Teachers College (STC) came into being. It mainly grew out of Northern Sichuan University, and at the same time, it merged Eastern Sichuan College of Education (former College of Rural Construction) and some specialties from Sichuan University and West China University. In 1956, STC moved to Chengdu. In 1964, it merged with three faculties of South Western University of Finance and Economics, namely, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. In 1999, the former Chengdu Ministry of Coal Management Institute merged with SNU. And in 1985, the State Commission of Education, approved renaming STC as Sichuan Normal University. In 2006, SNU was honored as an outstanding undergraduate teaching unit by the State Commission of Education. Through more than 60 years of coordinated development, SNU has developed into a multi-disciplinary Teaching-and-Research University comprising Liberal Arts, Science and engineering. SNU now boasts 27 colleges, offering 70 undergraduate specialties. It has 2 doctorate authorization first-level disciplines of Chinese Language and Literature and pedagogy with 19 doctorate specialties including Basic Mathematics and other disciplines It also has 21 master's degree authorization first-level disciplines and 8 master's degree authorizations, covering philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management science, art and others. The school library is the third largest library in Sichuan Province.