Gansu Agricultural University, located in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Gansu Provincial People's Government, a high-level university in Gansu Province, and one of the 100 central and western universities under state key construction. It was selected into the basic capacity building project of universities in the central and western regions, the education and training plan of outstanding agricultural and forestry talents, the national postgraduate project of building a high-level university, and the national key discipline project.
The school's predecessor was1National Veterinary College founded in Lanzhou in June, 1946. 1950, renamed Northwest Veterinary College; 195 1 changed its name to northwest animal husbandry and veterinary college; 1958 merged with Gansu Agricultural College under construction to form Gansu Agricultural University.
20 12 In June, Gansu Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Agriculture signed an agreement to establish Gansu Agricultural University. The school began to recruit graduate students from 1953. It is the first batch of bachelor's and master's degree awarding units and the second batch of doctoral degree awarding units in China.
School emblem:
The lines around the school emblem are circular with an inner ring, which symbolizes the school-running concept of taking teaching as the center, students as the center and teachers as the leading factor, and the cohesion and centripetal force of the "four major functions" of colleges and universities around the main line of connotation development and characteristic development to grasp the quality of talent training and the ability to serve the society.
The main body of the school emblem consists of wheat ears and horns. On the whole, it is like a sailing ship, which means that Gansu Agricultural University undertakes the mission of cultivating high-quality innovative talents, promoting agricultural modernization and looking forward to the future. It is not afraid of difficulties and obstacles, braving the wind and waves and going forward bravely.
The ear of wheat embodies the school's goal of multi-disciplinary development with agricultural as its dominant feature; The side of the ear of wheat is like an open book, which reflects the hard work and unremitting efforts of teachers and students of Agricultural University in the sea of knowledge. Horn not only represents traditional dominant disciplines such as animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, but also indicates the history of the school.