Northwest A&F University is located in Yangling, Shaanxi, the birthplace of agricultural civilization in China and the national agricultural high-tech industrial demonstration zone. It is directly under the Ministry of Education and the key construction universities of the original "985 Project" and "2 1 1 Project", and was selected as the first batch of national "world-class universities and first-class disciplines" construction universities. Party Secretary Li Xingwang and President Wu Pute. The school's predecessor was the National Northwest Agricultural and Forestry College, which was founded in 1934. It is the earliest higher agricultural and forestry education institution in northwest China.