My university dates from 1931 as a provincial education college. It became a state teachers' college in 1944, with its main focus on training teachers. It trained many teachers from all over the province, because the country needed teachers to offer education to both children and adult learners. The most interesting thing about my university is that the founder of China's geomechanics Prof. Li Siguang (李四光 1889—1971) was the person who persuaded the authorities to change the university from an education college to a teacher training college, even though he did not have an official position at the university. At that time, my university only had a few departments with limited resources. Later, after 1949, the university expanded with its graduates working in different professions, although its main focus was still to train teachers. Today my university is one of the key comprehensive universities, offering courses from undergraduate to doctoral degrees to over 18,000 students, producing qualified teachers as well as engineers, lawyers, scientists, mathematicians, economists and management professionals.