Southwest Forestry College is located in Yunnan Province, which is known as the "kingdom of animals and plants". The school is located in the beautiful spring city of Kunming, covering an area of 83. 18 hectares, adjacent to the "World Horticultural Exposition Park". The school originated from the Forestry Department of Yunnan University and was established in 1939. 1978 With the approval of the Ministry of Education, Yunnan Forestry College was established independently and directly under the management of the former Ministry of Forestry. 1980 began to enroll students, and 1983 was renamed as Southwest Forestry College. 199 1 year, moved from garden village, an peaceful birch, which is more than 40 kilometers away from Kunming. In 2000, in the adjustment of the structural layout of colleges and universities nationwide, the central and local governments were jointly established, with local management as the main task. After 26 years of hard work, the school has now developed into a teaching-oriented institution of higher learning with forestry as the main discipline and bio-environmental discipline as the feature, with the cross-integration and coordinated development of agriculture, science, engineering, literature, law and management, and it is also the only independent forestry institution in western China.

The school now has 13 teaching units, including Resource College, Conservation Biology College, Landscape Architecture College, Transportation Machinery and Civil Engineering College, Wood Science and Decoration Engineering College, Economic Management College, Ecotourism College, Continuing Education College, Environmental Science and Engineering Department, Computer and Information Science Department, Humanities and Social Sciences Department, Foreign Languages Department and Basic Department. The school has full-time students 123 16, including 789 graduate students, 0 undergraduate students 10449 and 0 adult undergraduate students 1058. There are also international students from Vietnam, Laos and the United States.

As one of the first universities in China with the right to award master's degrees after the reform and opening up, the school has eight disciplines, including agronomy, science, engineering, literature, law, management, economics and education, among which three disciplines are agronomy, engineering and management. 9 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, including 2 key disciplines of the State Forestry Administration; 1 1 for key construction majors at or above the provincial or ministerial level, including 3 national first-class professional construction sites. At present, there are 3 master's degree authorization points in the first-level discipline and 25 master's degree authorization points in two disciplines. At present, there are 45 undergraduate general majors, among which 3 major disciplines cover 17 first-level disciplines.

There are 943 faculty members in the school, including 635 full-time teachers, 57 part-time teachers/kloc-0, and 564 teachers with master's degree or above, accounting for 7 1.2 1% of the total. Among them, there are 174 teachers with doctoral degrees, accounting for 21.97% of the total; There are 404 senior professional and technical teachers, including 1 12 full professors. Selected as the first-class talents of the National "Hundred Million Project" 1 person, the New Century Excellent Talents Training Plan of the Ministry of Education 1 person, 2 trans-century academic and technical leaders of the State Forestry Administration, 5 experts with outstanding contributions from the State Forestry Administration, young and middle-aged academic and technical leaders of Yunnan Province 1 person, and doctoral supervisor1person. Two people won the title of "National Excellent Teacher", two people won the title of "Provincial Excellent Teacher" and 1 person won the title of "National Advanced Worker in Forestry Science and Technology". Professor Liang Award, the highest forestry award in China, was awarded for his great breakthrough in plant classification research. Professor Yang Yuanchang was awarded the "Golden Ark Award" by the Kingdom of the Netherlands for his outstanding achievements in wildlife protection and research, and was known as the "Asian Wildlife Protector". Professor Yang was awarded the 2004 Parker/gentry Outstanding Environmental Protection Innovation Award by the Field Museum of the United States for his outstanding contribution to biodiversity conservation and research, becoming the ninth scientist in the world and the first scientist in Asia to receive this award.

After years of development, our school has a number of research results with obvious regional characteristics and outstanding academic advantages. It is at the forefront of similar research in biodiversity and nature protection, bamboo research, forest protection and wood science and technology. It has obvious regional characteristics in landscape planning and design, eco-tourism and other fields; Outstanding achievements have been made in the research of insects, birds and fish. The school has always attached great importance to the construction of plants, animals, wood, insects and pathological specimen rooms, forming a unique collection of more than 400,000 books. Among them, the species, quantity and quality of plant specimens rank among the top in China, and this herbarium was listed as one of the largest herbarium in China 100 by Royal Botanical Garden in 1992. In 2004, a herbarium with advanced facilities and a building area of 5984m2 was built, which integrates teaching, scientific research and specimen collection. Editor-in-chief of Yunnan Forest, Atlas of Yunnan Trees, Yunnan Forest Diseases, Yunnan Ladybug Records and many other monographs, won many awards, including the third prize of national scientific and technological progress and the first prize of Yunnan scientific and technological progress. During the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" and "Tenth Five-Year Plan" periods, a total of 1 12 scientific research achievements in our school won provincial and ministerial awards, including the second and third prizes of national scientific and technological progress 1, 3 provincial and ministerial first prizes, 2 second prizes 16 and 90 third prizes. Research project 150, with research funding of more than 20 million yuan.

The school currently covers an area of 1537 mu; The school building covers an area of 444,500 square meters and the teaching and research administrative building covers an area of 248,000 square meters. The value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment is 6.5438+0.02295 million yuan; Applicable books 1022700 volumes; It has a comprehensive library automation system and a superstar e-book system, and the campus computer network covers application systems such as educational administration, student course selection, asset management, financial management and office automation. There are 65 teaching practice bases, including 4 practice forest farms and 0 practice factories. And built a comprehensive herbarium with more than 400,000 specimens, advanced facilities, complete varieties and unique features. Among them, the species, quantity and quality of plant specimens are among the highest in China, and the branch herbarium was listed as one of the largest herbarium in China in 192 by the Royal Botanical Garden.

The school attaches great importance to strengthening international exchanges and cooperation, and has established inter-school relations with universities in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam and other countries, and established scientific and technological cooperation relations with international institutions such as the World Wide Fund for Nature, the Global Environment Fund, the Nature Conservancy, the MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation. More than 200 people have gone abroad to study, give lectures, investigate and cooperate in research, and more than 300 foreign teachers and experts have been hired.

School enrollment and graduate employment have achieved remarkable results. In the past three years, the first choice admission rate of freshmen in our school has remained above 65%, with an average of 70.54%. With the increasingly severe employment situation of graduates in China, the employment rate of graduates has remained above 90%.

In 2004, the school successfully passed the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education and was rated as good. "Cultivating entrepreneurial talents for forest biodiversity and nature conservation in frontier ethnic areas" has been identified as a school-running feature. A total of 18 provincial teaching achievements have been obtained in the last two sessions, among which "Research and Practice of Credit System", "Knowledge Innovation Promotes the Construction of Forestry GIS Course Series Textbooks" and "Construction and Demonstration of Forestry Specialty of Provincial Key Construction Specialty" won the first prize. After decades of unremitting efforts and development, the school has a number of research results with obvious regional characteristics and outstanding academic advantages. It is at the forefront of similar research in biodiversity and nature protection, bamboo research, forest protection, wood science and technology, and has obvious regional characteristics in the fields of garden planning and design, eco-tourism, and has made outstanding achievements in the research of insects, birds and fish. In the past five years, the school's scientific research contract funds reached 6.5438+0.5783 million yuan; Won 38 scientific and technological achievement awards at or above the provincial level, including the second prize of national scientific and technological progress 1, the national engineering consulting award 1, the first prize of scientific and technological achievements of the Ministry of Education 1, and the first prize of provincial natural science. It has 1 1 national, provincial and ministerial key laboratories, engineering technology centers and talent training bases, including 1 National Plateau Wetland Research Center and 1 Southwest Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Protection of State Forestry Administration.

Over the past 26 years, "Xilin people" have made silent dedication and no regrets, made positive contributions to the development of forestry higher education in China, and provided strong intellectual support and talent guarantee for the economic and social development and ecological environment construction in the west. In recent years, while strengthening the position of teaching center and deepening the reform of education and teaching, we have organized social practice activities for college students during holidays through colorful campus cultural activities, and further guided students to establish their aspirations of "rejuvenating the country through science and education" and "rejuvenating the forest through science and education". Since 1993, the school has been awarded "National Advanced Social Practice Unit" by the Propaganda Department of the CPC, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Ministry of Education and the National Federation of Students. Since 1988, our school has maintained the title of "Kunming Civilized Unit" and won the title of "Provincial Civilized School" in 2002, and was awarded the titles of "Advanced Unit for Moral Education", "Provincial Excellent Educational Administration Unit" and "Advanced Unit for Employment in Colleges and Universities in Yunnan Province" by the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education.

During the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, the school will be guided by social needs, led by discipline construction, and centered on improving the quality of education and teaching. Focusing on the two comprehensive development goals of striving to build Southwest Forestry University and becoming a doctoral degree authorized unit, we should change the educational concept, deepen teaching reform, highlight school-running characteristics, improve school-running level, comprehensively promote quality education, enhance independent innovation ability and comprehensive school-running strength, strengthen party building and ideological and political work, and promote the comprehensive and coordinated development of school education.

Party Secretary of the College: Chen; Dean: Liu Huimin.

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