Henan College of Animal Husbandry and Economics

Henan College of Animal Husbandry and Economics is located in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province. It was formed in 2013 by the merger of the former Zhengzhou College of Animal Husbandry Engineering (founded in 1957) and the former Henan College of Commerce (founded in 1960). It is a provincial public full-time undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education and organized by the Henan Provincial People's Government.

The school covers a total area of ​​2.0747 million square meters. It currently has three campuses and three scientific and educational bases, namely Longzihu, Yingcai and Beilin, with a total construction area of ​​1.0485 million square meters. The total value of teaching and scientific research equipment is 241 million yuan, and the library has 2.6076 million paper books. There are 443 laboratories and training sites, 13 provincial engineering technology research centers, 3 provincial college student entrepreneurship incubation demonstration bases and 307 off-campus training bases.

The school currently has 1,954 faculty members, including 125 teachers with senior professional titles, 426 teachers with associate senior professional titles; 1,343 staff with master's degrees or above; 438 "dual-qualified" teachers; 4 experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council, 1 national candidate for the "Million Talents Project", 2 national teaching masters, 2 national excellent teachers, 1 member of the Ministry of Education's Higher Education Teaching Committee, 1 candidate for the "Zhongyuan Thousand Talents Plan", 2 experts with special allowances from the provincial government, 9 provincial teaching masters, 4 provincial excellent experts, 10 provincial excellent teachers, 9 provincial academic and technical leaders, and 63 department-level academic and technical leaders. There are 2 national teaching teams and 7 provincial teaching teams.

The school currently has 21 secondary teaching units and 47 undergraduate majors, connecting with the animal husbandry and industry industry chain, and has established a discipline and professional system with animal production, food engineering, information technology, and economic management as the main body, and animal husbandry and industry integrated multidisciplinary cross-integration and coordinated development. It has 9 provincial first-class undergraduate professional construction points such as animal science, food science and engineering, and financial management, and 4 provincial comprehensive reform pilot majors. The discipline of "Animal Nutrition and Feed Science" is a key cultivation discipline in Henan Province. The school has successfully cultivated a new variety of "Huanghuai Meat Sheep", filling the gap in the field of meat sheep breeding in Henan Province.

The school continues to deepen education and teaching reforms and continuously innovate talent training models. It has successively created talent training models such as "double subject integration and division", "four-stage dual circulation", and "five-force collaborative school-enterprise cooperation". It has won 1 national teaching achievement special prize, 2 first prizes, and 3 second prizes; 5 provincial teaching achievement special prizes, 21 first prizes, and 17 second prizes. There are 3 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, 10 provincial "14th Five-Year Plan" planning textbooks, 11 provincial excellent grassroots teaching organizations, 4 provincial virtual simulation teaching projects, and 2 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers.

Focusing on the integrated discipline and professional system of animal husbandry and industry and the needs of talent training, the school has built 23 provincial R&D platforms and humanities and social sciences research bases, 4 provincial innovative science and technology teams, 16 municipal and departmental R&D platforms, and 49 school-level scientific research innovation teams. At present, the school has a total of 28 national fund projects, 2 sub-projects of the National Key R&D Program, 2 major projects in Henan Province, 457 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, and 80 horizontal projects. Won 33 scientific research awards at the provincial and ministerial level or above; won 67 national invention patents; published 7136 academic papers. The school has successively become the executive director unit of the National Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Innovation Alliance, the vice chairman unit of the Henan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Society, the vice chairman unit of the Henan International E-Commerce Association, and the chairman unit of the Cold Chain Logistics Branch of the Henan Refrigeration Society.

The school aims at the combination of disciplinary advantages and local needs, comprehensively deepens the integration of production and education, promotes school-government-enterprise cooperation, and builds the Smart Animal Husbandry Modern Industry College, Kunpeng Industry College, Home Economics Industry College, and Art Design Industry College with "Muyuan", "Fengyuan Hepu", "Yuanfang", "Top Hui" and other enterprises; accurately connects with the needs of industrial development, and cooperates with well-known "animal husbandry, industry, and commerce" enterprises to build "order classes" and "title classes"; in-depth cooperation with government departments, universities, research institutes, and industry associations, jointly builds the Animal Products Quality and Safety Technology Research Institute, Food Industry Technology Research Institute, Rural Revitalization and Precision Poverty Alleviation Research Institute, Animal Husbandry Finance Research Institute, etc.; with more than 30 well-known breeding and veterinary medicine companies in the province, it has jointly built 5 industry alliances such as the Animal Husbandry Industry-Education Integration Strategic Alliance and the Veterinary Medicine Innovation Alliance, and cooperated with well-known domestic breeding and food companies such as "Shuanghui" and "Si Nian" to build an off-campus demonstration practice teaching base. Actively assisting industrial transformation and upgrading and rural revitalization, many research results have been adopted by government decision-making departments and have been well received by the society.

The school actively expands the vision of open education and deepens international exchanges and cooperation. It has established contacts and cooperation with more than 50 universities and research institutes in 27 countries and regions including Canada and Ireland, and has 1 undergraduate Sino-foreign cooperative education program. It has built the Henan Province International Talent Cooperation Project "Feed Resource Innovation and Utilization Studio", the international scientific research cooperation platform "Henan Province Ruminant Nutrition and Feed Resource Development International Joint Laboratory" and "Henan Province Animal Enteric Disease Prevention and Control International Joint Laboratory", and the Ministry of Education's registered country and regional research center-Irish Research Center.

The school takes moral education as its foundation, adheres to the school motto of "advocating strictness and reality, being good at knowledge and quick action" and the overall positioning of "regional, industry, open and application-oriented" school-running, based in Henan and facing the industry, to serve the local economy and the development of modern agriculture and animal husbandry, food processing industry, trade and logistics industry, etc. Provide strong talent support and intellectual support. The school has successively won the titles of "Henan Province Undergraduate Transformation and Development Pilot School", "Excellent University for Talent Training and Evaluation of the Ministry of Education", "Henan Province's First Batch of Entrepreneurship Education Demonstration Schools", "Henan Province's Top Ten Most Influential Education Brands", "Henan Province's Most Employment Competitive Demonstration College", "Henan Higher Education Employment Quality Best Demonstration College", "Henan Province's Advanced Unit for Employment and Entrepreneurship of Ordinary College and Technical Secondary School Graduates", "Henan's Top 20 Leading Universities in Comprehensive Strength", "Henan Universities with Domestic Influence on the 40th Anniversary of Reform and Opening Up", "Henan Province's Demonstration School for Rule of Law in Schools", "Henan Province's Undergraduate Ideological and Political Course Demonstration College", "Henan Province's 'Three-dimensional Education' Comprehensive Reform Pilot College", "2018-2019 Provincial Internal Audit Advanced Collective", "Henan Universities 2019-2020 Annual Propaganda Advanced Unit", "2020 Henan Higher Education Model Demonstration College", "2020 Domestic High-quality Employment Demonstration College", "Henan Civilized Campus" and other honorary titles, and has won a good social reputation.

The trend of the times is mighty, and only the tide-makers can stand at the forefront forever; the wheel of history is rolling forward, and only the strugglers can take advantage of the momentum. Based on the new era, Henan University of Animal Husbandry and Economics will continue to hold high the great banner of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhere to the socialist direction of running schools, implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality and educating people, take root in the Central Plains, rely on regions and industries to serve the local economy and the development of modern agriculture and animal husbandry, food processing, and commerce and logistics. We will vigorously promote the construction of a nationally renowned, provincially first-class, and distinctive high-level applied university, actively play a service-leading and supportive role in the development of regional economic, social, and cultural development, and make new and greater contributions to embarking on a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, promoting the Central Plains to be more splendid, and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.