 A cluster of famous scholars, such as Fei Xiaotong, Chu Tunan, Chen Xingshen, Hua Luogen, Yan Jici, Feng Youlan, Lü Shuxiang came to teach at Yunnan University, and thus gradually turned the institution into a general university that had exerted a certain degree of academic influence at home and abroad.In 1946, Yunnan University had five faculties and 18 academic departments, and was included in the "Concise Encyclopædia Britannica" as one of the fifteen most prestigious universities in China.During the early 1950s, the government began reforming the Chinese education system which had affected every university.