Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU), located in Nanjing, the ancient capital of China, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education with the advantages and specialties of agriculture and life sciences, and the coordinated development of multiple disciplines of agriculture, science, economics, management, engineering, literature and law, and a key university under the "211 Project", "985 Advantageous Discipline Innovation Platform" and "Double First Class" construction. It is a key university under the "211 Project", "985 Advantageous Discipline Innovation Platform" and "Double First Class" construction. The current party secretary Wang Chunchun, President Chen Fadi.
In 1963, it was recognized as one of the two key agricultural colleges and universities in China; in 1971, it was moved to Yangzhou and merged with the North Jiangsu Agricultural College to establish the Jiangsu Agricultural College; in 1979, it was moved back to Nanjing and restored to Nanjing Agricultural College; in 1984, it was renamed as the Nanjing Agricultural University; and in 2000, it was transferred to the Ministry of Education as an independent organization by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Nanjing Agricultural University has 20 colleges (departments), including College of Agriculture, College of Engineering, College of Plant Protection, College of Resources and Environmental Science, College of Horticulture, College of Animal Science and Technology (including Wuxi Fisheries College), College of Animal Medicine, College of Food Science and Technology, College of Economics and Management, College of Public Administration, College of Humanities and Social Development, College of Life Sciences, College of Science, College of Information Management, College of Foreign Languages, College of Finance, College of Grasslands, College of Marxism, College of Artificial Intelligence, and Department of Physical Education. College, College of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Physical Education and other 20 colleges (departments); 71 undergraduate majors, 31 master's degree-authorized first-level disciplines, 20 types of professional degree-granting rights, 17 doctoral degree-authorized first-level disciplines, and 15 postdoctoral mobile stations; more than 17,000 undergraduates, more than 11,000 graduate students; more than 2,900 faculty and staff members, including 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 47 national outstanding young science fund recipients, and others. There are more than 2900 teaching staff members, including: 3 academicians of Chinese Academy of Engineering, 47 recipients of National Outstanding Young Scientist Fund, 3 national teaching masters, 5 national outstanding teachers, model teachers and advanced workers in education system, more than 150 selected for other kinds of national talent projects and talent programs, 2 innovative research groups of the National Foundation Committee, and 7 teaching teams at national and provincial levels.
Nanjing Agricultural University (NAMU) has been cultivating talents at all levels, including undergraduate education, postgraduate education, international student education, continuing education and cadre training. There are "National Cultural Quality Education Base for Undergraduates", "National Base for Cultivating Talents in Basic Science Research and Teaching", "National Base for Cultivating Talents in Life Science and Technology", "Base for Cultivating Top-notch Students in Biological Sciences 2.0", and national experimental teaching centers for plant production, animal science and virtual simulation of agro-biology. In 2000, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to establish the Graduate School, and in 2014, it was selected as one of the first batch of the National Program for Cultivation of Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talents. Agronomy, Seed Science and Engineering, Plant Protection, Agricultural Resources and Environment, Environmental Engineering, Horticulture, Landscape Architecture, Tea Science, Animal Science, Aquaculture, Agricultural and Forestry Economics and Management, International Economics and Trade, Animal Medicine, Food Science and Engineering, Food Quality and Safety, Bio-engineering, Land Resource Management, Administration, Labor and Social Security, English, Sociology, Rural Regional Development, Tourism Management , Applied Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Finance, Accounting, Grass Science, Mechanical Design and Manufacturing and Automation, Agricultural Mechanization and Automation, Agricultural Electrification, Information Management and Information System, Computer Science and Technology, and other 34 majors were approved as national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, Environmental Science, Ecology, Gardening, Facility Agricultural Science and Engineering, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Business Administration, Marketing, E-commerce, Animal Pharmacy, Human Geography and Urban and Rural Planning, Human Resource Management, Law, Investment and other 13 majors have been approved as the first-class undergraduate program construction sites at the provincial level. In the course of more than 100 years of schooling, the university adheres to the Nannong spirit of "sincerity, simplicity, diligence and benevolence" as the core, and cultivates top-notch innovative and composite application talents with "world vision, Chinese sentiment and Nannong quality", and has successively produced more than 300,000 outstanding talents, including 62 academicians. It has produced more than 300,000 outstanding talents, including 62 academicians.
Nanjing Agricultural University has 4 national key disciplines of first-level disciplines, 3 national key disciplines of second-level disciplines and 1 national key cultivation discipline. In the fourth round of national first-level discipline assessment, four disciplines of crop science, agricultural resources and environment, plant protection, agricultural and forestry economic management were assessed as A+, and three disciplines of public management, food science and engineering, and horticulture were assessed as A category. In the fifth round of national first-level discipline assessment, it has achieved excellent results. Eight disciplines entered the construction project of superior disciplines in Jiangsu universities. Agricultural Sciences, Plant and Animal Sciences, Environmental Ecology, Biology and Biochemistry, Engineering, Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Chemistry, Pharmacology and Toxicology, General Social Sciences and other 10 disciplines in the field of 10 disciplines into the ESI discipline rankings of the world's top 1%, of which 2 disciplines such as Agricultural Sciences and Plant and Animal Sciences entered the top 1 ‰, and ranked among the world's top disciplines.
Nanjing Agricultural University has established 113 national and ministerial-level scientific research platforms, including the National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Innovation and Utilization, the National Key Laboratory of Meat Quality Control and New Resource Creation, the National Engineering Research Center for Meat Quality and Safety Control, the National Soybean Biological Breeding Innovation Platform for Industry-Education Integration, the National Engineering and Technology Center for Information Agriculture, the National Center for Soybean Improvement, the National Engineering and Technology Center for Organic Fertilizer, the National Local Joint Engineering Research Center for the Utilization and Remediation of National Local Joint Engineering Research Center, Green Pesticide Creation and Application Technology National Local Joint Engineering Research Center and other 113 national and provincial research platforms. "Since the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, it has put in place 9 billion yuan of scientific research funds, and won more than 200 national, ministerial and provincial scientific and technological achievement awards, including 12 national scientific and technological awards as the first unit of completion. The university has been proactively serving the national strategy of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, and has created great economic and social benefits by virtue of its strong scientific research strength, and has been awarded the "National Advanced Unit of Science and Education for Agricultural Development" for many times. From 2017 to 2019, it was selected as one of the top ten typical projects for precise poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation in universities directly under the Ministry of Education.
Nanjing Agricultural University actively responds to the national "One Belt, One Road" initiative, and continuously improves the level of internationalization, with increasingly active foreign exchanges, has maintained joint student training, academic exchanges and scientific research cooperation with more than 170 overseas high-level universities and research institutes in more than 50 countries and regions. With the University of California, Davis, Cornell University, Ghent University of Belgium, Massey University of New Zealand and other world-renowned colleges and universities, we have carried out dozens of overseas exchange programs such as "Exchange Visiting", "Undergraduate Dual Degree", "Undergraduate Dual Degree", "Undergraduate Dual Degree" and so on. "In 2019, the Ministry of Education approved the establishment of the Michigan College of Nanjing Agricultural University in cooperation with Michigan State University in the United States. There are "China-US Joint Research Center for Food Safety and Quality" "China-Kenya Joint Laboratory of Crop Molecular Biology 'Belt and Road'" " Joint Laboratory for International Cooperation in Animal Health and Food Safety", "International Joint Research Center for Animal GI Nutrition", "Sino-British Joint Research Center for Plant Phenomics"." Nanjing Agricultural University-University of California, Davis Joint Research Center for Global Health", "Asian Center for Agricultural Research" and other international cooperation platforms. 2007, it became the Ministry of Education's "Institutions Accepting Chinese Government Scholarships for International Students". 2008, it became one of the universities accepting Chinese Government Scholarships for International Students in China. "In 2008, it became one of the first education aid bases in China, and in 2012, it was approved to build the world's first Confucius Institute with agricultural characteristics, and in 2014, it was approved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education to set up the China-ASEAN Education and Training Center. "In December 2021, it took the lead in establishing the "China-Central and Eastern European Universities Association Community of Cooperation in Agriculture and Life Sciences". 2012, it initiated the establishment of the "World Agricultural Prize", which has been awarded for nine consecutive years to students from Cornell University, University of California, Dallas, and University of California, Los Angeles, as well as to students from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2012, it initiated the establishment of the World Prize for Agriculture, which has been awarded for nine consecutive years to 12 winners from Cornell University, the University of California, Davis, the Ohio State University, the University of Bonn, the University of Alberta, the University of Ghent in Belgium, the University of Ghana, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, the Agricultural University of China, and the University of Merkley.
Nanjing Agricultural University is a multi-campus integrated development, with Weigang Campus, Jiangbei New Campus, Pukou Campus and Baima Teaching and Research Base, with a total area of more than 9,000 mu. It has a total building area of 740,000 square meters, a collection of 2.35 million books and materials, more than 10,000 foreign-language journals and more than 5 million Chinese e-books.In 2014, it co-sponsored the academic journal Horticulture Research with Nature Publishing Group, and in 2019, it was selected as a leading journal in China's "Excellence Action Plan" for scientific and technological journals. In 2014, Horticulture Research was published with Nature Publishing Group, and was selected as a leading journal in China's Excellence Action Plan for Science and Technology Journals in 2019; in 2018, Plant Phenomics was published with Science Publishing Group; and in 2019, BioDesign Research was published with Science Publishing Group.
Looking ahead, as the pioneer of higher agricultural education in modern China, Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) will take the foundation of moral education, take the responsibility of strengthening agriculture, strengthen the connotation construction, focus on reform and innovation, serve the national strategic needs, and strive to cultivate new talents who know and love agriculture, and comprehensively open a new journey for the construction of a world-class university of agricultural characteristics!
