Career
Wu Yuzhang was born in Rong County, Sichuan in 1878. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1925. In the 1940s, when he was in Yan"an, he and Dong Biwu, Lin Boqu, Xu Teli, Xie Juezai were called as Yan"an Five Seniors (延安五老).
Wu Yuzhang Honors College was named in memory of Wu.
Since its founding, it"s been considered one of the best colleges at Sichuan University. The yearly recruitment of 100 freshman is carried out under very strict criteria from a typical candidate pool of 10,000 freshman.