China Agricultural University (hereinafter referred to as "China Agricultural University" (CAU)) is located in Beijing. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Agriculture and Beijing Municipality. It was rated as a "double-first-class" construction university, "985 Project" and "2 1 1 project", and was successively selected as "basic subject enrollment reform pilot", "201/plan" and "1/kloc-"
On May 30th, 2007, the Ministry of Education approved the establishment of Yantai Research Institute of China Agricultural University as an educational and scientific research institution of China Agricultural University in Shandong, which is affiliated to China Agricultural University. 201May June 17 Yantai Research Institute was officially registered as an independent legal person and became a second-class unit of China Agricultural University.