Southwest Forestry University is located in Spring City in Kunming four seasons bloom continuously, in western China is the only forestry colleges set up independently, with 70 years of experience running and forestry higher education 30 years of independent history of the school. Southwest Forestry University originated in 1939 in Kunming, Yunnan University Department of Forestry Department of Forestry and Agriculture and Forestry College was established in 1958. 1973 Kunming Institute of Agriculture and Forestry Department of Forestry and south of Beijing Forestry University, Kunming merged schools, the establishment of the school, the predecessor of Yunnan Forestry University, Beijing Forestry University in 1978, moved back to Beijing after school, Ministry of Education approved the school changed to Yunnan Forestry College, immediate State Department of Forestry management, in 1983 changed its name to Southwest Forestry College, one of six regional forestry colleges directly under the Ministry of Forestry in 2000, universities affiliated to the school by the State Forestry administration to adjust for the central and local governments in order to save the primary management 2010 Ministry of Education approved renamed Southwest Forestry University. In 1981 he became the State Council approved the first batch of master's degree granting unit, 2013 was granted a doctorate-granting units.