Inner Mongolia Agricultural University

Inner Mongolia Agricultural University is a multidisciplinary university with agriculture and forestry as its main focus, grassland animal husbandry as its key educational feature. It has 8 disciplines including agriculture, engineering, science, economics, management, literature, law, and art. It has a complete higher education system for training higher vocational colleges, bachelor's, master's and doctoral students. In 2001, it became a university that was supported by the "one province, one school" program of the National Western Development. In 2012, it became a "province-ministerial co-construction" university of the State Forestry Administration (now the State Forestry and Grassland Administration) and the Autonomous Region People's Government. In 2013, it entered the ranks of colleges and universities supported by the National "Central and Western Higher Education Revitalization Plan".

Historical evolution In 1952, the animal husbandry and veterinary departments of the former Hebei Agricultural College and Pingyuan Agricultural College and the veterinary major of Shanxi Agricultural College were relocated to Guisui (now Hohhot) to form the first undergraduate college in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region - Inner Mongolia Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College. In 1958, Inner Mongolia Forestry College was established. In 1960, Inner Mongolia Animal Husbandry and Veterinary College was renamed Inner Mongolia Agricultural and Animal Husbandry College. In 1999, Inner Mongolia Agricultural and Animal Husbandry College and Inner Mongolia Forestry College merged to form Inner Mongolia Agricultural University.

School scale The school currently has 23 colleges and departments (including vocational and technical colleges) including the College of Animal Science. There are currently 35,080 full-time students in general higher education (28,561 in the main campus). There are currently 4,583 graduate students (including 3,067 full-time students) and 639 doctoral students. There are currently 154 international students. The school covers a total area of ​​14,000 mu (including the science and technology park), and the campus covers a total area of ​​3,360 mu (2,630 mu in the main campus). The school has 409,200 square meters of teaching and administrative buildings, 4 standard athletic fields (stadiums), and teaching and scientific research equipment with a total value of 1 billion yuan.

Disciplines and majors The school currently has 1 national key discipline, 3 national key cultivation disciplines, 23 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, and 11 autonomous region first-class construction disciplines. There are 12 postdoctoral research mobile stations, 13 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 24 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, and 8 master's professional degree authorization categories. There are 82 undergraduate majors in general higher education, 2 pilot projects of the National Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talent Education and Training Program (including 8 majors), 7 national characteristic majors, and 1 national comprehensive reform pilot major.

Faculty Team The school currently has 1,351 full-time teachers, 761 teachers with senior professional titles, accounting for 56.32% of the total number of full-time teachers; 1,195 teachers with master's degrees or above, accounting for 88.45% of the total number of full-time teachers, of which 52.11% have doctoral degrees. There are 1 distinguished professor of the Yangtze River Scholars Program and funded by the National Outstanding Young Scientists Fund, 2 funded by the National Outstanding Young Scientists Fund, 2 leading talents of the "Ten Thousand Talents Program" of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, 8 national candidates of the "Million Talents Project", 91 experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, 51 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from the country and the autonomous region, 15 outstanding returned overseas students from the country and the autonomous region, 3 national model workers and advanced workers, 18 scientific and technological personnel who have made outstanding contributions in the front line of industrial, agricultural and animal husbandry production in the autonomous region, 1 winner of the National Young Women Scientist Award, 3 chief experts of the Autonomous Region's "333 Talent Project", 8 first and second level candidates of the "New Century 321 Talent Project", 91 selected as "Grassland Talents" in the autonomous region, 36 Grassland Talent Teams, and 10 Outstanding Talent Awards in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. 2 people won the title of "National Forestry and Grassland "Teaching Masters", 28 autonomous region-level teaching masters, and 18 autonomous region-level new teachers. 3 vice chairmen and 9 members were selected as members of the Professional Teaching Guidance Committee of Higher Education Institutions. 9 teachers were awarded the honorary title of "Smart Teaching Star" of Online Education by the Online Education Research Center of the Ministry of Education.

Teaching work The school currently has 1 national teaching team and 23 autonomous region teaching teams. There are 5 national quality courses, 2 national quality resource sharing courses, 2 national virtual simulation experimental teaching projects, and 22 Ministry of Education's industry-university cooperation and collaborative education projects. There is 1 national talent training model innovation experimental zone, 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national college student off-campus practice education base, 1 national college student cultural quality education base, and 3 first batches of agricultural science and education cooperation talent training bases of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Agriculture. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", 6 national and 175 autonomous region-level education and teaching reform research projects were undertaken. There are 40 autonomous region-level brand majors, 6 key construction majors, 1 undergraduate major comprehensive reform pilot project, 9 experimental teaching demonstration centers, 72 autonomous region-level boutique courses, 4 high-quality boutique courses, 4 first-class virtual simulation experimental teaching courses, and 14 autonomous region college online open course construction projects. There are 38 provincial and ministerial planning textbooks for the "12th Five-Year Plan", 24 Mongolian textbooks, 7 of which won the National Agricultural Education Excellent Textbook Award from the China Agricultural Science and Education Foundation, and 3 won the National Forestry Administration Forestry Science Higher Education Excellent Textbook Award. There are 58 provincial and ministerial planning textbooks for the "13th Five-Year Plan", 44 Mongolian textbooks, and 5 won the National Agricultural Education Excellent Textbook Award from the China Agricultural Science and Education Foundation. Won 8 national teaching achievement awards, 73 autonomous region-level teaching achievement awards, and 13 outstanding scientific research achievements in ethnic education in the region.

Since the 12th Five-Year Plan, the school has hosted nearly 3,000 scientific research projects at all levels and types, with a total research fund of more than 1.2 billion yuan, including 576 National Natural Science Foundation projects, including outstanding young scientists, excellent young scientists, key projects, and key national cooperation projects, with a total fund of 275 million yuan; hosted 5 national key research and development plan projects in the 13th Five-Year Plan, with a total fund of 129 million yuan. In 2017 and 2018, the agricultural science discipline entered the top 1% of ESI worldwide, and 3 research results in the fields of characteristic animal genomes and lactic acid bacteria were published in Nature Communications. Two people won the Autonomous Region Science and Technology Special Contribution Award and one person won the Ho Leung Ho Lee Science and Technology Innovation Award; as the first completing unit, it won 78 provincial and ministerial science and technology and social science achievement awards, including 13 first prizes; as the main completing unit, it won 2 second prizes for national science and technology progress and 1 second prize for technological invention. Relying on the "International Science and Technology Cooperation Base", it hosted 15 national key international cooperation projects. 30 school-level science and technology innovation (cultivation) teams have been established, including 2 innovation teams in key areas of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 3 teams in the development plan of science and technology innovation teams of the Ministry of Education, 2 innovation teams of the Ministry of Agriculture, and 9 teams in the construction plan of the autonomous region's science and technology innovation team. One national field scientific research observation station and 66 provincial and ministerial key laboratories (engineering research centers, field stations and humanities and social science bases) have been built.

Social Service In 2013, the school was included in the second batch of the construction plan of the National New Rural Development Research Institute of Higher Education Institutions. 13 scientists and teachers of comprehensive experimental stations in relevant positions of the "13th Five-Year Plan" National Modern Agricultural Industry Technology System were selected. The school was approved as a national continuing education base for professional and technical personnel and 2 autonomous region science popularization demonstration bases. In 2018, the Rural Revitalization Research Institute was established to comprehensively coordinate and manage the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and social services. Through the "school-local-enterprise" cooperation, 7 rural revitalization comprehensive experimental stations, more than 30 characteristic industrial bases and science and technology service points have been built. The results of self-cultivated and developed probiotic strains, veterinary vaccines and other achievements have been transformed, with a cumulative contract amount of more than 50 million yuan. In recent years, the average annual contract value of the school's horizontal projects has exceeded 20 million yuan. Since 2013, 146 science and technology training courses of various levels and types have been carried out, training more than 8,000 scientific and technological talents of various types in and outside the region. The school has signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with enterprises such as Charoen Pokphand Group, Yili Group, Mengniu Group, Mengcao Drought Relief Group, Jinyu Group, Sino Sheep, and Minfeng Potato Industry. The school and the Tuyouqi People's Government jointly built the "Chi Lechuan Agricultural Expo Park", and 30,000 square meters of intelligent greenhouses and 24 acres of solar greenhouses were built and put into use.

Open schooling has established inter-school cooperation and academic exchange relations with more than 70 universities and scientific research institutions in more than 20 countries including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Russia, Japan and Mongolia, and established the "China-Canada Sustainable Agriculture Research and Development Center" and the "Malik Management Center Inner Mongolia Agricultural University Branch". In the past five years, the school has sent more than 500 teachers to visit and exchange academic exchanges abroad, and more than 800 experts and professors from abroad have come to the school for academic exchanges, visiting lectures, scientific research cooperation and other activities. The school has established the "Belt and Road" Research Institute and participated in the "Belt and Road" education aid projects, academic exchanges and scientific research cooperation. In 2012, the school became the host of the Ministry of Commerce's foreign aid training project, hosted 25 multilateral and bilateral foreign aid trainings, and trained more than 600 trainees from 52 countries. In 2015, the school became the "Ministry of Education Overseas Study Training and Research Center", and has trained more than 8,000 trainees. The school has implemented the "2+2" cooperative education project since 2005, and has selected 248 students to study in foreign partner institutions. The school has recruited international students since 2005, and has recruited 526 international students from 15 countries including Mongolia and Russia.

Social Honors The school party committee won the honorary title of "Advanced Grassroots Party Organization" in the country and the district, and the school was awarded the "May 1st Labor Medal" and the first batch of "Civilized Campus" in the district. The Vocational and Technical College was awarded the honorary title of "National Advanced Collective in the Education System", the Academic Affairs Office was awarded the titles of "Advanced Academic Affairs Office" and "Excellent Academic Affairs Office" in national general colleges and universities, and the Youth League Committee of the school was rated as the national "May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee". The school has repeatedly won the titles of "National Excellent Unit for College and Technical School Student Volunteers' Summer 'Three Going to the Countryside'" and "Advanced Collective for Student Work and Graduate Employment in Colleges and Universities in the Region". The College of Animal Science was awarded the "National May 1st Labor Medal", the School of Veterinary Medicine was rated as the "Advanced Collective for National Unity in the Region", and the School History Exhibition Hall was designated as the "Moral Education Base for College Students in Inner Mongolia". (April 2020)