Beijing Forestry University

Beijing Forestry University

Beijing Forestry University is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the State Forestry and Grassland Administration. It is one of the first batch of key universities in the national "211 Project" and a pilot university for the national "Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" construction project. It is a national "Double First-Class" construction university. It has a profound historical heritage. The school's history can be traced back to the Agricultural Science and Forestry Department of the Imperial University of Peking in 1902. In 1952, the national colleges and departments were adjusted, and the Forestry Department of Beijing Agricultural University merged with the Forestry Department of Hebei Agricultural College to form Beijing Forestry College. In 1956, the Landscape Architecture Department of Beijing Agricultural University and the Architecture Department of Tsinghua University were partially incorporated into the school. In 1960, it was listed as a national key university, and in 1981 it became one of the first universities with the right to confer doctoral and master's degrees. In 1985, it was renamed Beijing Forestry University. In 1996, it was listed as one of the first batch of key universities in the "211 Project" by the state. In 2000, it was transferred from the former State Forestry Administration to the direct management of the Ministry of Education. In the same year, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to pilot the Graduate School. In 2001, it received joint support from the Ministry of Education and the State Forestry Administration. In 2004, the Graduate School was officially established. In 2005, it obtained the qualification for independent selection and admission of undergraduates. In 2008, it became a pilot university for the national "Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" construction project. In 2011, it participated in the establishment of the Beijing High-tech University Alliance with 10 other industry-specific universities. In 2012, it took the lead in establishing China's first forestry collaborative innovation center-the "Efficient Cultivation and Utilization of Forest Resources" Collaborative Innovation Center. In 2016, the school's "Forest Molecular Design Breeding High-tech Innovation Center" was selected as the second batch of Beijing's high-tech innovation centers. In 2017, it was included in the first batch of universities in the national "Double First-Class" construction, and the two disciplines of forestry and landscape architecture were selected in the list of "Double First-Class" construction disciplines. In 2019, ecological restoration engineering and urban and rural human settlement ecological environment were selected in the list of high-tech disciplines in Beijing universities. In 2021, it was successfully approved for the Xiong'an campus and became the first batch of universities to settle in Xiong'an. In 2022, it was selected in the list of universities in the second round of the national "Double First-Class" construction, and the two disciplines of forestry and landscape architecture were selected in the list of disciplines in the second round of the national "Double First-Class" construction. The school has distinctive characteristics. The school is based on biology and ecology, with forestry, landscape architecture, forestry engineering, grassland science and agricultural and forestry economic management as its characteristics. It is a national key university with coordinated development of agriculture, science, engineering, management, economics, literature, law, philosophy, education, art and other categories. For a long time, the school has been adhering to the school motto of "Knowing the mountains and rivers, and cultivating trees and people", and practicing the concept of "beautifying the mountains and rivers into brocade and painting the land into paintings", and has trained more than 200,000 senior professionals and a group of foreign students for the country, including a large number of outstanding scientific and technological experts and management talents represented by 16 academicians of the two academies, who have made outstanding contributions to my country's ecological civilization construction, forestry and grassland undertakings, and economic and social development. Strong discipline strength. The school is a university authorized by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and the Ministry of Education to independently review the qualifications of professors, and is a university authorized by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee to independently set up doctoral and master's second-level disciplines and interdisciplinary disciplines within the first-level disciplines. In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, the two first-level disciplines of forestry and landscape architecture ranked A+. It has 1 first-level national key discipline (including 7 second-level national key disciplines), 2 second-level national key disciplines, 1 national key (cultivation) discipline, 6 National Forestry and Grassland Administration key disciplines (first level), 3 National Forestry and Grassland Administration key cultivation disciplines, 2 Beijing University high-tech disciplines, 3 Beijing key disciplines (first level) (including key cultivation disciplines), 4 Beijing key disciplines (second level), and 1 Beijing key interdisciplinary discipline. The talent training system is complete. The school currently has 17 colleges, 65 undergraduate majors and directions, 25 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degrees, 17 professional degree authorization points, 8 first-level disciplines authorized for doctoral degrees, and 7 postdoctoral mobile stations. There are 26,458 students, including 13,719 undergraduates, 7,513 postgraduates, and 5,226 students of various continuing education. The school implements the tutor system and the major and minor system, and has a variety of training models for top innovative talents and compound talents such as the National Science Base, the National Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talent Training Program, the Liang Xi Experimental Class, the Innovation Experimental Class, and Sino-foreign Cooperation in Running Schools. There are 18 national first-class professional construction sites, 8 provincial and ministerial first-class professional construction sites, and 2 first-class majors in Beijing. 11 national teaching achievements (3 first prizes, 7 second prizes, and 1 excellent prize) were obtained, 3 excellent textbooks of the National Textbook Construction Award, 1 advanced individual of the National Textbook Construction Award, 51 provincial and ministerial teaching achievement awards, 12 national first-class courses, and 12 high-quality undergraduate courses in Beijing universities. 5 doctoral dissertations were selected as "National Excellent Doctoral Dissertations". It has repeatedly won good results in national competitions such as the China International "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, the German Red Dot Award, the ACM International College Student Programming Competition, the National College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition, the National College Student Electronic Design Competition, the National College Student E-commerce "Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship" Challenge, the National Agricultural and Forestry Graduate Academic and Scientific Works Competition, and the National Graduate Mathematical Modeling Competition. The employment rate of graduates in the past five years has been above 93%. The faculty team is strong. The school has established a development strategy advisory committee, and 46 academicians from the two academies in related disciplines have been invited to serve as members of the development strategy advisory committee to provide intellectual support for the school's reform and development and the construction of the teaching staff. There are 2,098 faculty members, including 1,386 full-time teachers, including 355 professors and 600 associate professors. There are 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 34 people who have been selected for national talent programs, 1 chief scientist of the national "973" program, 1 chief expert of the "863" program, 1 chief scientist of a major project of the National Social Science Fund, 1 "Cultural Celebrity and Four-Batch Talent" of the Central Propaganda Department, 4 "Young and Middle-aged Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talents" of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 2 "National Environmental Protection Professional and Technical Young Top Talents" of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, 35 people in the "New Century Excellent Talent Support Program", 9 winners of the "China Youth Science and Technology Award", 2 winners of the "China Young Women Scientist Award", 1 "Science and Technology Beijing" 100 Leading Talents, 2 Outstanding Young Talents in Beijing, 1 Young Top Talent in Beijing's High-tech Talent Support Program, 50 people selected for the Beijing University Youth Talent Program, 27 people selected for the Beijing Excellent Talent Support Program, 10 experts with outstanding contributions at the national and provincial and ministerial levels, 106 experts enjoying special government allowances, and 3 "Innovation Team Development Programs" of the Ministry of Education. Teachers have won many awards, including 2 National Innovation Award, 1 Ho Leung Ho Lee Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 International Environmental Contribution Award, 1 Luc Hoffmann Wetland Science and Conservation Award, 3 National Outstanding Science and Technology Workers, 1 National "Ten Thousand Talents Plan" Teaching Master, 2 National Model Teachers, 3 National Outstanding Teachers, 1 National Outstanding Teacher of Ideological and Political Theory Courses, 1 Beijing People's Teacher Award, 30 Beijing Higher Education Teaching Master Awards, 5 Beijing Higher Education Young Teaching Master Awards, and 4 National Forestry and Grassland Teaching Masters. The scientific research results are fruitful. The school currently has 84 national, provincial (ministerial) key laboratories, engineering centers and field stations. Among them, there are 1 National Engineering Technology Research Center, 1 National Engineering Research Center, 1 National Field Observation Scientific Research Station, 1 National Energy Non-food Biomass Raw Materials R&D Center, 1 International Science and Technology Cooperation Base for Forestry Biomass Energy, 2 National Soil and Water Conservation Technology Demonstration Parks, 4 National Soil and Water Conservation Monitoring Stations, 3 Key Laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 3 Engineering Research Centers of the Ministry of Education, 2 Field Science Observation Research Stations of the Ministry of Education, 8 Key Laboratories of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, 7 National Forestry and Grassland Engineering Technology Research Centers, 1 Quality Inspection Center of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, 8 National Terrestrial Ecosystem Positioning Observation Research Stations, 1 Beijing Laboratory, 1 Beijing High-tech Innovation Center, 8 Beijing Key Laboratories, 2 Beijing Engineering Technology Research Centers, 3 Long-term Scientific Research Bases of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, 24 National Innovation Alliances for Forestry and Grassland, and 2 Science and Technology Collaborative Innovation Centers of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration. Since its establishment, the university has won a total of 58 national science and technology awards and 395 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards. Since the 12th Five-Year Plan, the school has won 10 national science and technology awards (6 second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and 4 second prizes of the National Technological Invention Award), more than 100 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, and more than 20 first prizes of the National Society Social Power Award. It has undertaken major science and technology projects such as the National Key R&D Program, the National Science and Technology Support Program, the "863" Program, and the National Natural Science Foundation Key Project, with a total of 2.559 billion yuan in research funds received. Actively connect with major national strategies and actively serve social and economic development. It actively connects and serves major strategies such as the coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin, the construction of Beijing's sub-center and Xiongan New Area, and was the first in the country to establish the Yellow River Basin Ecological Protection and High-quality Development Research Institute; it has made significant contributions to national key forestry ecological construction projects such as the "Three Norths" Project, the "Tianbao" Project, the Grain for Green and Grassland Project, and the Beijing-Tianjin Sand Source Control Project; the landscape architecture discipline has completed practical design projects all over the country. Among them, the Huagang Guanyu Project has created a model for China's modern park design, and projects such as the West Lake Westward Expansion and the Pearl River Delta Greenway have led the national landscape architecture planning and design; it fully supports the landscape planning and ecological construction of the 2019 Beijing International Horticultural Exhibition and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics competition area; it deeply participates in the second round of comprehensive scientific expeditions to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; and provides theoretical and technical support for the systematic management of "mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and sands." More than 80 strategic cooperation agreements have been signed with local governments, enterprises and institutions, fully assisting local ecological construction and green development; deeply participating in the construction of four national ecological civilization pilot zones in Fujian, Jiangxi, Guizhou and Hainan; providing technical services for the construction of Qinghai National Park Demonstration Province and Tibet's "Beautiful Mount Everest", supporting the green rise of the Central Plains, and contributing Beilin's wisdom to the national ecological civilization construction. Comprehensively assisting Keyouqian Banner, Inner Mongolia to consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation, effectively connecting rural revitalization, and obtaining the "good" grade in the poverty alleviation assessment of central units for two consecutive years, achieving poverty alleviation and moving towards rural revitalization. Green culture continues to inherit and innovate. Approved as the only national intangible cultural heritage of colleges and universities in the country-Chinese traditional flower arrangement; compiled the most important cultural project in the national forestry field, "Chinese Classics·Forestry Classics"; took the lead in the country to release the "China Provincial Ecological Civilization Construction Evaluation Report" (Green Book); deeply participated in the compilation of the "China Forestry Encyclopedia"; the original drama "Liang Xi" by teachers and students has been widely praised by all sectors of society, and green activity brands such as the Green Long March and the Ecological Civilization Doctoral Lecture Group are well-known throughout the country, making positive contributions to promoting green culture. Two English academic journals sponsored by the school, "Forest Ecosystems (English)" and "Ornithological Research (English)", were selected into the "Echelon Journal" construction project of the China Science and Technology Journal Excellence Action Plan, becoming an important platform to demonstrate the school's academic level and international influence. International cooperation and open education are widely promoted. We have carried out scientific and educational cooperation with more than 190 high-level colleges and scientific research institutions in more than 30 countries and regions overseas; actively promoted international academic exchanges, took the lead in establishing a forestry education coordination mechanism in the Asia-Pacific region, and introduced more than ten world-class academic masters to the school for academic exchanges and cooperation; hosted the Ministry of Commerce's foreign aid training for 17 consecutive years, and trained nearly 600 forestry officials from developing countries; signed strategic agreements with international organizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Asia-Pacific Forest Restoration and Sustainable Management Organization; and jointly established the "China-France Eurasian Forest Invasive Biology Joint Laboratory" with the French Academy of Agricultural Sciences; held high-level international academic conferences, seminars, and training courses every year; hosted various foreign expert projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and introduced a large number of overseas experts and scholars to carry out online and offline exchanges; sent a large number of faculty and staff abroad for academic and scientific research cooperation, and implemented more than 40 international scientific and technological cooperation projects. It has jointly organized Sino-foreign cooperative education projects in wood science and engineering and biotechnology with the University of British Columbia in Canada, and has carried out multiple joint training projects with universities in the United States, France and other countries. It has been approved as a high-level international talent training innovation and practice project base by the Ministry of Education, and has selected outstanding students to study abroad through various study abroad programs to cultivate high-quality international talents. It has successively joined the "Silk Road Agricultural Education Science and Technology Innovation Alliance", "Global Challenge University Alliance" and "China-Central and Eastern Europe University Alliance" to serve the country's diplomatic strategy, accelerate the realization of international development, and build a high-level platform for all-round international cooperation. It actively carries out exchanges and cooperation with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, establishes partnerships with many universities in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and carries out a series of distinctive and rich academic and cultural exchange activities. The school is a Chinese government scholarship, the Ministry of Commerce's foreign aid degree project scholarship, the Beijing Municipal Government Scholarship, the Beijing "Belt and Road" Special Scholarship, the Asia-Pacific Forestry Organization Scholarship and the Beijing "Belt and Road" National Talent Training Base Project School. At present, the school has independently set up an international college and established the first African alumni association of forestry colleges with "international students" as the main body. In cooperation with the National Forestry and Grassland Administration to implement the intergovernmental cooperation agreement with countries along the Belt and Road, a total of 334 international students from 75 countries will study at the school in 2021, of which more than 97% are degree students. The school covers a total area of ​​13,176 mu, of which the school headquarters covers an area of ​​696 mu and the experimental forest farm covers an area of ​​12,480 mu. The library has a building area of ​​23,400 square meters, with a collection of 1.9692 million books, 48,900GB of electronic documents, and 69 databases. A digital campus network of "10 Gigabit backbone and 1 Gigabit to desktop" has been built. At present, the school is aiming to provide higher education that satisfies the people. In accordance with the "three-step" strategy of the new era proposed by the 11th Party Congress of the school, it fully implements the party's education policy, builds a new development pattern of "one school and two districts", and strives to build a world-class forestry university rooted in China.

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