Anhui Agricultural University

Anhui Agricultural University is located in Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province. It is a university with a long history of running schools and is jointly built by the provincial government, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the State Forestry and Grassland Administration. It has advantages and characteristics in agricultural, forestry and life sciences. It is one of the first ten universities in the country to build the "New Rural Development Research Institute". It is a project university of the "Basic Capacity Construction Project for Colleges and Universities in Central and Western China" and a "local characteristic high-level" university construction university in Anhui Province. The current party secretary is Chang Yejun and the president is Xia Tao.

The school originated from the Provincial Anhui University established in 1928, the Agricultural College was established in 1935, it was independently established in 1953, and it was renamed Anhui Agricultural University in 1995. It has 19 colleges (departments). There are 26,076 full-time students (including 154 international students), including 5,581 master and doctoral students. There are 2,007 faculty members, including 860 professors, associate professors and other senior professional and technical positions, 915 doctoral and master's supervisors; there is 1 dual-appointed academician, 27 national talents, and 98 provincial talents.

There are 3 ESI top 1% disciplines, 1 national key (cultivation) discipline, 19 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, 1 selected for the Anhui Province World Class Discipline and Domestic First-Class Discipline Award and Subsidy Fund Project, and 4 selected for the Anhui Province University Peak Discipline Construction Project. There are 5 first-level discipline postdoctoral research stations, 8 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 18 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 1 second-level discipline master's degree authorization point, and 11 master's degree authorization categories. There are 73 undergraduate majors, of which 26 majors have been selected for the national and provincial first-class undergraduate major construction "Double 10,000 Plan", 5 national characteristic majors, and 2 national professional comprehensive reform pilot majors. There are currently 2 national teaching teams, 2 national quality courses, 1 national open video course, 1 national quality resource sharing course, and 3 national first-class courses. There is currently 1 national college practice education innovation and entrepreneurship base, 1 national off-campus practice education base, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 3 national agricultural science and education cooperation talent training bases, 2 national excellent agricultural and forestry talent education and training plan reform pilot projects, 4 national new agricultural research and reform practice projects, 2 national new liberal arts research and reform practice projects, and 1 national planning textbook.

There are 1 national key laboratory, 1 national-local joint engineering laboratory, 1 international cooperation joint laboratory, 1 international science and technology cooperation base, 1 base of the "Higher Education Discipline Innovation and Talent Introduction Program" of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology, 1 Anhui Provincial Laboratory, 56 provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms, 2 provincial "2011 Collaborative Innovation Centers", 1 provincial key think tank, 1 provincial university think tank, 1 provincial science and technology innovation think tank, 1 provincial industrial common technology research institute, 1 Ministry of Education innovation team, 9 provincial "115" industry innovation teams, 7 provincial university scientific research platform innovation teams, 6 national modern agricultural industry technology system post scientists, and 8 Anhui Province modern agricultural industry technology system chief scientists. In the past three years, the school has won 1 second prize in the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 34 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, including 4 first prizes; 9 provincial social science awards, including 1 first prize; 75 new animal and plant varieties at or above the provincial level; 1,014 invention patents have been applied for and 383 have been authorized; 1 national key research and development plan project, 4 topics, and 156 national funds have been presided over.

The school vigorously implements the internationalization strategy of running schools, and has established stable cooperative relations with universities and research institutes in more than 30 countries and regions. It has been approved as an "university that accepts Chinese government scholarships for international students in China", vigorously improved the quality of training and management of international students in China, and passed the "Quality Certification for Studying in China". It strives to build an international cooperation platform and has been approved as a designated unit for foreign language training in the "South-South Cooperation" project, a national demonstration base for international science and technology cooperation, and the "Anhui Haizhi Agricultural Base" of the China Association for Science and Technology. It has been approved by the Ministry of Education to cooperate with Lakehead University in Canada to hold an undergraduate education program in forestry. It has jointly led the establishment of the "China-US University Agricultural Extension Alliance" with Colorado State University in the United States, building an important cooperation platform in the field of agricultural research between universities and even governments of the two countries.

The school has always adhered to the school-running direction of serving the "three rural issues", committed to the cause of developing agriculture and Anhui through science and education, and has embarked on a nationally renowned "Dabie Mountain Road" of educating people to develop schools, enriching people and strengthening agriculture, and coordinating schools and local areas, making outstanding contributions to promoting the development of modern agriculture and local economic and social construction. In particular, in recent years, the school has proposed and implemented the "Modern Young Farmer Training Program", built and explored the "one station, one alliance, and one center" school-county co-construction mechanism and the "four-body integration" new agricultural science and technology promotion service model, and formed an industrial poverty alleviation model of "schools supporting industries, industries gathering enterprises, enterprises connecting large households, and large households leading poor households", which has been fully affirmed by the leaders of the Party and the State, relevant ministries and commissions, and the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government.

At present, the school is guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and is deeply studying and implementing the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Plenary Sessions of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, implementing the spirit of the National and Provincial Education Conference, the Ideological and Political Work Conference, and the Symposium of Teachers of Ideological and Political Theory Courses of the School, focusing on the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, seizing the major opportunities of the rural revitalization strategy and the construction of "Double First-Class", and fully implementing the strategic deployment of the Seventh Party Congress of the school to fight the "three major battles", implement the "five major improvement actions", promote the "five major reforms", and accelerate the construction of a distinctive high-level agricultural university, strengthen the party's overall leadership over the school's work, lead the high-quality development of the school's cause with high-quality party building, and strive to make new and greater contributions to the construction of a modern and beautiful Anhui. (Data statistics as of the end of December 2021)