Huazhong Agricultural University, referred to as Huanong for short, is located at the foot of Lion Mountain in Nanhu, Wuhan City, Hubei Province. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education with the characteristics of life science and the coordinated development of agriculture, science, engineering, literature, law, economics and management.
The first batch of world-class discipline construction universities in China, the national "2 1 1 Project" and "985 Engineering Advantage Discipline Innovation Platform" are key construction universities, and they have been selected into the discipline innovation and intelligence introduction plan, the excellent engineer education and training plan, the excellent agricultural and forestry talent education and training plan, the national construction of high-level postgraduate universities, and new engineering research and practice projects.
The New Agricultural Scientific Research Reform Practice Project, the China Municipal Government Scholarship Receiving Institution for Overseas Students in China, the National Model University for Deepening the Reform of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education, and the first batch of scientific and technological achievements transformation and technology transfer bases in universities are members of Wuhan Seven Universities.
The origin of Huazhong Agricultural University can be traced back to 1898, when Governor Zhang Zhidong of Huguang invited the Qing government to establish Hubei Agricultural School, which was one of the starting points of higher agricultural education in China.
After inheritance and evolution, Huazhong Agricultural College was established by the merger of Wuhan University Agricultural College and Hubei Agricultural College in 1952, and was renamed Huazhong Agricultural University in 1985. In 2000, it was placed under the direct leadership of the Ministry of Education from the Ministry of Agriculture. ?