Nanjing Forestry University, referred to as "Lin Nan", is located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. It is a provincial-level key university jointly established by the State Forestry Administration, Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, Ministry of Education and Jiangsu Provincial People's Government. It is the first batch of world-class discipline construction universities in China, and has been selected into the first batch of "Excellent Agriculture and Forestry Talents Education and Training Plan", "National Key Discipline Project" and "National Construction of High-level Universities"
The school was formerly the Forestry Department of Central University (founded in 1902) and the Forestry Department of Jinling University (founded in 19 10), and Nanjing Forestry College was merged in 1952, which was one of the only three forestry colleges in China at that time. 1955 Huazhong agricultural college (formed by the merger of Wuhan university, Nanchang university and Hubei agricultural college) was merged with the forestry department, and 1972 was renamed Nanjing forestry industry institute. 1983 restored the name of Nanjing Forestry College, and 1985 changed its name to Nanjing Forestry University.
Nanjing Agricultural University, located in Nanjing, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education with advantages and characteristics of agricultural science and life science. It is also the national "world-class discipline construction university" and "2 1 1 engineering" and "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform". Selected in the national "20 1 1 plan", "11plan", "863 plan", "973 plan" and "excellent agricultural and forestry personnel education and training plan".
The school's predecessor can be traced back to Sanjiang Normal School in 1902 and Jinling University in 19 14. During the period of 1952, the departments of colleges and universities in China were adjusted, and Nanjing Agricultural College was formed by the merger of Jinling University, the former Agricultural College of National Central University and some departments of Zhejiang University. 1963 was identified as a national key university. 1984 was renamed Nanjing Agricultural University.