One of the starting points of higher agricultural education in China. The predecessor of the school was the Hubei Agricultural School founded in 1898 by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. After several changes, in 1952, all the departments of Wuhan University's Agricultural College and Hubei Agricultural College, as well as some departments of the agricultural colleges of six comprehensive universities including Sun Yat-sen University, were formed to establish Huazhong Agricultural College. In 1979, it was approved as a national key university by the State Council, directly under the Ministry of Agriculture. In 1985, it was renamed Huazhong Agricultural University. In 2000, the Ministry of Agriculture was transferred to the direct leadership of the Ministry of Education. In 2005, it entered the ranks of the national "211 Project" construction. In 2017, it was included in the national "double first-class" construction ranks.
The leaders of the party and the country are kind and caring. Dong Biwu, Li Xiannian, etc. successively wrote inscriptions and the name of the school. In 1998, Jiang Zemin, then General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President of the State, wrote an inscription for the 100th anniversary of the school. In 2011, Hu Jintao, then General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President of the State, listened to our school's report on the biological industry. In 2013, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the State, wrote back to our school "Benyu Volunteer Service Team".
The campus environment is unique. The campus is located in the Lion Mountain of Nanhu Lake, Wuchang, Wuhan, Hubei Province. It covers an area of 4.95 million square meters (7425 acres). It is surrounded by lakes on three sides, with beautiful scenery, elegant environment, row upon row of buildings and natural gardens.
Disciplinary advantages and characteristics are obvious. Five disciplines (groups) of biology, horticulture and crop science, animal husbandry, veterinary science, and agricultural and forestry economic management were selected as the national "double first-class" disciplines. In the fourth round of the national first-level discipline assessment, 7 disciplines were listed as Category A disciplines. Among them, 3 disciplines including horticulture, animal husbandry, and veterinary science were A+, biology was A, food science and engineering, crop science, agriculture and forestry The three disciplines of economics and management are A-. According to statistics from the US Institute of Information Technology's "Basic Science Indicators" database (ESI) in September 2017, a total of 7 disciplines in our school have entered the ESI global rankings, and the fields of botany and zoology have entered the world's top 1‰ ranks, agricultural sciences, chemistry , Biology and Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Microbiology, Environmental Science/Ecology and other six disciplines have entered the top 1% of the world.
The education system is complete. There are 18 colleges (departments), 60 undergraduate majors, 27 first-level disciplines for master's degree authorization, 10 types of master's degree authorization, 15 first-level disciplines for doctoral degree authorization, 1 type of doctoral professional degree authorization, and post-doctoral research There are 13 mobile stations. There are 26,196 full-time students, including 18,763 undergraduates and 7,433 postgraduates.
Shuo Yan Junxiu gathers. There are 2657 faculty members, including 1586 teachers and 421 professors. There are 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 foreign academician of the American Academy of Sciences, 2 academicians of the Third World Academy of Sciences, 25 experts for the Thousand Talents Program, 28 experts for the Ten Thousand Talents Program, 29 Yangtze River Scholars, and National Outstanding Youth There are 20 people, including 6 chief scientists of the 973 Program, 1 chief scientist of the modern agricultural industrial technology system, and 55 post scientists. The National Natural Science Foundation of China has 3 innovative research groups and 60 provincial and ministerial-level outstanding innovation teams. There are 4 national teaching teachers and 7 national teaching teams.
The reform of education and teaching is very effective. He has won 22 national teaching achievement awards, including 1 special prize, 3 first prizes, and 18 second prizes. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, 1 national education system reform project, 2 national professional comprehensive reform pilot majors, 2 national "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" majors, and national "Excellent Agricultural and Forestry Talent Education and Training Program" 8 majors were approved , 4 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 10 national off-campus practice bases for college students, 6 agricultural science and education cooperation talent training bases of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Ministry of Education, 32 national quality resource sharing courses, 10 national quality video open courses, 9 national quality online open courses, 18 national "Twelfth Five-Year" planning textbooks, and 1 national virtual simulation experiment teaching project.
Strong technological strength. There are 2 national key laboratories, 1 national and local joint engineering laboratories, 4 professional laboratories, 7 national R&D centers, 6 international scientific and technological cooperation bases, 26 ministerial and provincial key (engineering) laboratories, and There are 26 provincial-level R&D centers, 5 colleges and universities subject innovation and intelligence introduction bases ("111" plan), 1 introduction of foreign intellectual achievements demonstration and promotion base, 35 school-enterprise joint laboratories (R&D centers), and humanities in provincial universities There are 4 key social science research bases. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, 5388 scientific research projects were approved with a total of 3.129 billion yuan. In the research fields of hybrid rape, green rice, high-quality breeding pigs, animal vaccines, high-quality citrus, test-tube seed potatoes, etc., a number of landmark achievements have been well-known at home and abroad.
Outstanding achievements in the construction of spiritual civilization. Since 1996, the school has been rated as the best civilized unit in Hubei Province for ten consecutive times. In 2005, it was awarded the National Advanced Unit for the Construction of Spiritual Civilization. Since 2008, it has been awarded the National Civilized Unit for three times. In 2017, it was awarded the first National Civilized Campus.