Located in Changsha City, Hunan Province, Central South University of Forestry and Technology (CSUFT) is a provincial university, a provincial key university and a "double-class" construction project university established by the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau and the Hunan Provincial People's Government.

Selected universities with postgraduate exemption qualification in Hunan Province, including the national "Basic Capacity Building Project of Central and Western Universities", outstanding agricultural and forestry talents education and training plan, the national "Key Discipline Project with Characteristics", the national public postgraduate project of building high-level universities, and the Hunan 20 1 1 plan.

It is also the first provincial university with a graduate school in Hunan Province, covering nine disciplines including science, engineering, agriculture, literature, economics, law, management, teaching and art. It is a comprehensive university with Post-Doctoral Research Center, the right to award doctoral degrees and the right to dismiss graduate students, featuring forestry.

One of the predecessors of the school is Hunan Forestry College, an undergraduate college founded in 1958. 1963, under the direct care of Tao Zhu, a proletarian revolutionary of the older generation, Hunan Forestry College moved to Guangzhou and merged with the Forestry Department of South China Agricultural College to form Central South Forestry College, which was directly under the management of the Ministry of Forestry. In 2000, the school was transformed into a provincial department. In 2005, the school was renamed as Central South University of Forestry and Technology.