Sichuan University developed polymer science in June 1953 to establish the first university in the specialty of the polymer compound (renamed in 1954 as a professional engineering plastics), based on the Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor Xu Xi and so is the founder of the discipline.

  State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, College of the existing, Institute of Polymer Science, Polymer Science, Department of Polymer Materials, Polymer Processing Engineering (Plastics Engineering and Machinery Research Institute), medical polymer materials and engineering artificial organs Department of the Institute of chemical fiber and polymer materials and engineering laboratories and other teaching and research institutions.