Northwest A&F University is located at No.22 Xinong Road, Yangling National Agricultural Hi-tech Industrial Demonstration Zone, Shaanxi Province. It is a key construction university of the National 985 Project and 2 1 1 Project, and it is the first batch of national world-class universities and first-class discipline construction universities.
2. Introduction to Northwest A&F University The school was formerly the National Northwest Agricultural and Forestry College established in 1934. 1September, 1999, with the approval of the State Council, the former Northwest Agricultural University, Northwest Forestry College, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Northwest Water Conservancy Research Institute of Ministry of Water Resources, Shaanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shaanxi Academy of Forestry Science and Northwest Botany Research Institute of China Academy of Sciences merged to form Northwest A&F University.
Since its founding more than 80 years ago, generations of teachers and students have been adhering to the school philosophy of "learning from the country, understanding the people's livelihood and attaching importance to science" and the school motto of "caring for the country and the people", caring for the poor and helping the poor, adhering to the ambition of Hou Ji, the ancient agricultural god, doing the contemporary "teaching the people and cultivating the fields", adhering to the road of running a school closely integrated with Industry-University-Research, and making outstanding contributions to promoting China's agricultural modernization and the development of agricultural science and education.
Before the founding of New China, the school was a well-known university with important influence at home and abroad. In 1950s and 1960s, the school undertaking experienced a rapid development stage and made brilliant achievements. Since the merger of schools, Industry-University-Research's closely integrated school-running characteristics have been continuously highlighted, and the reform of science and education system has been actively promoted and deepened. All undertakings have achieved historic leap-forward development and entered a new stage of development.
The school is the most complete agricultural college in China, with 26 colleges (departments, institutes and departments) and graduate schools, 13 postdoctoral mobile stations, 16 first-class disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees, 28 first-class disciplines authorized by master's degrees and 67 undergraduate majors. 7 national key disciplines and 2 national key (cultivation) disciplines; American agricultural science ranks 18 in the world. Journalism discipline; Agricultural science ranks in the top of ESI global discipline ranking 1‰, and seven disciplines including agricultural science, botany and zoology, engineering, environmental science and ecology, chemistry, biology and biochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology rank in the top of ESI global discipline ranking 1%. There are 2 national key laboratories, 1 national engineering laboratories, 3 national engineering technology research centers, 3 national field scientific observation research stations, 62 provincial key laboratories and engineering technology research centers.
There are 4,462 faculty members in the school, including 2 full-time teachers183, 623 senior professional technicians, and deputy senior professional technicians 132 1 person. Academician of China Academy of Sciences 1 person, 2 academicians of China Academy of Engineering, and double-employed academicians 1 1 person; There are 7 national "talent engineering experts" and 3 young talent engineering experts/kloc-0; "*" distinguished professor 6 people, youth *3 people; "*" 6 leading talents in scientific and technological innovation and 3 top-notch young talents; 8 winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and 8 winners of the Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars; Selected as one of the national 100 million talents project 12 people, and selected as one of the 64 outstanding talents support programs in the new century. There are 43 "*" students in Shaanxi Province, 2 students in distinguished professor/KLOC-0, and 2 national teachers.
The school began to recruit undergraduates from 1934 and postgraduates from 194 1. 3 national-level talent training mode innovation experimental zones; National characteristic specialty construction points 12; There are 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers and 2 national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers. 5 national teaching teams; 6 innovation teams of the Ministry of Education; National quality courses 12, national quality video open courses 4, national quality resources 8. There are 20,966 full-time undergraduates and 9,600 graduate students, including 2 130 doctoral students. The graduates of this school are all over the world. Since its establishment, it has trained and trained more than 200,000 talents for the society, and 19 alumni have become academicians of the two academies, making important contributions to agricultural modernization and rural economic and social development in the northwest and even the whole country.
The school has always adhered to the principle of combining "indomitable spirit" with scientific and technological work, aimed at the forefront of international science and technology, closely focused on the national strategic needs and regional development needs, and actively carried out applied basic research and applied technology research for agricultural production, forming distinctive characteristics and advantages in the research fields of animal and plant breeding, plant protection, agricultural biotechnology, agricultural water-saving technology in arid areas, and comprehensive control of soil erosion in the Loess Plateau. Since its establishment, the school has accumulated more than 6,000 scientific and technological achievements and won more than 1.800 awards. It has cultivated important scientific and technological achievements such as the excellent wheat variety Bima 1 with the largest cumulative promotion area in the world, the distant hybrid wheat variety Xiaoyan 6, which has long dominated the upgrading of wheat varieties in China, and the excellent apple variety Qinguan with the largest independent cultivation and promotion area in China. The direct economic benefits of promotion and transformation have accumulated over 300 billion yuan.
Since the joint school, it has won 42 national science and technology awards, including 14; Presided over the completion of 79 first prizes of provincial and ministerial scientific and technological achievements; Won the highest achievement award of scientific and technological progress in Shaanxi Province (1). 142 1 invention patents authorized by the state; 547 new varieties of animals and plants were approved. Published 2 1627 papers on SCI, EI and SSCI, including 28 14 papers on SCI, EI and SSCI, with 20 18 as the first signer. At present, there are 8 first-class societies of agriculture, forestry and water in Shaanxi Province, editing and publishing 20 kinds of academic journals, and establishing university press.
Facing the development needs of national and regional leading industries, the school actively carries out the demonstration, popularization and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements. Take the lead in exploring and practicing the new mode of agricultural science and technology popularization based on colleges and universities in China, and build the first batch of new rural development research institutes in China. It has established scientific and technological cooperation with more than 500 local governments or leading enterprises, established 27 agricultural science and technology experimental demonstration stations and 46 demonstration bases in regional leading industrial centers, and built a fast channel for agricultural science and technology achievements in colleges and universities to enter the village and create direct economic benefits of more than 80 billion yuan. School Science Park and Overseas Students Pioneer Park entered the first batch of national university science parks.
The school actively integrates into the "Belt and Road" construction and actively expands international cooperation and exchanges in science and technology education. It has established inter-school cooperative relations with 159 famous universities or scientific research institutions in the world, among which 14 universities rank among the top 100 universities in the world, and an average of 1000 foreign scholars come to the school for academic exchanges every year. At present, there are three international scientific and technological cooperation platforms 13, such as "China-US Research Center for Soil and Water Conservation and Environmental Protection" and "China-Canada Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Center in Arid Areas". The "Silk Road Agricultural Education Science and Technology Innovation Alliance" initiated by the initiative has attracted 76 universities and scientific research institutions in 14 countries along the route. Since the 11th Five-Year Plan, a total of 1609 students have been sent to study abroad. The school is qualified to accept the scholarship of China government for international students in China, with 294 foreign students.
The campus area of the school is 56572 1 mu, and the building area is 1.5645 million square meters. The total value of fixed assets is 4.745 billion yuan, of which the total value of equipment is 65.438+23.6 billion yuan. The library has 2,096,800 printed books and 3,974,900 electronic books. The layout of the school campus is harmonious and unified, and the greening, beautification and lighting have achieved remarkable results. Nature and humanity blend together and enjoy the reputation of "ecological garden-style university city".