Northwest University of Agriculture and Forestry Science and Technology is located in Yangling, Shaanxi Province, the birthplace of Chinese farming civilization and the national demonstration area of agricultural high-tech industry. It is directly under the Ministry of Education, the key construction universities of "985 Project" and "211 Project", and the first batch of universities selected for the construction of "world-class universities and first-class disciplines". Li Xingwang, the current Secretary of the Party Committee, and Wu Pute, the principal of the Party.

The predecessor of the school was the National Northwest Agricultural and Forestry College founded in 1934. In September 1999, with the approval of the State Council, the former Northwest Agricultural University, Northwest Forestry College, the Institute of Soil and Water Conservation of the Ministry of Water Conservancy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Northwest Water Conservancy Research Institute of the Ministry of Water Conservancy, the Shaanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the Shaanxi Academy of Forestry Sciences and the Northwest Botanical Research Institute of the Chinese Ac

Over the past 80 years since its founding, teachers and students have been adhering to the school-running concept of "managing the country, solving the people's livelihood, advocating science" and the school motto of "honesty, simplicity and courage". They have a strong sense of society and love, inheriting the aspirations of the ancient goddess of agriculture, carrying out the contemporary "teaching the people and harvesting the grain", and insisting on the school-running road of combining production, learning and research, so as to promote the construction of agricultural modernization and the development of agricultural science and education in China. Outstanding contributions have been made.

Before the founding of New China, the school was a well-known university with important influence at home and abroad. In the 1950s and 1960s, the school undertakings experienced a rapid development stage and achieved brilliant achievements. Since the joint school, the school has continuously highlighted the characteristics of the close combination of production, teaching and research, and actively promoted and deepened the reform of science and education system. All undertakings have achieved historic leap-forward development and entered a new stage of development.

The school is the most complete Agricultural University in China, with 26 colleges (departments, institutes, ministries) and postgraduate institutes. There are 13 post-doctoral mobile stations, 16 doctoral degree authorized first-level disciplines, 28 master's degree authorized first-level disciplines and 67 undergraduate specialties. At present, there are 7 national key disciplines and 2 national key disciplines; agricultural science ranks 18th in the world; agricultural science ranks first among ESI global disciplines; six disciplines such as agricultural science, botany and zoology, engineering, environmental science and ecology, chemistry, biology and biochemistry rank first 1% in ESI global disciplines. List. There are 2 national key laboratories, 1 National Engineering laboratory, 3 National Engineering Technology Research centers, 3 national field science observation and research stations, 62 provincial and ministerial key laboratories and engineering technology research centers.

The school has 4512 staff, including 2150 full-time teachers, 588 senior professional and technical personnel and 1252 deputy senior professional and technical personnel. There are one academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and 11 double-hired academicians; seven national "talent project experts" and nine young talent project experts; six specially appointed professors of "Yangtze River Scholars" and three young Yangtze scholars; eight national outstanding youth science funds and eight outstanding youth funds; and 12 national million talent projects. In the new century, 64 candidates were selected for the Outstanding Talents Support Program, 43 candidates for the "Hundred Persons Program" in Shaanxi Province, 12 candidates for the "Special Professors" in schools, and 2 National Teaching teachers.

The school began to recruit undergraduates in 1934 and postgraduates in 1941. At present, there are 3 national innovative experimental zones for talent training mode, 12 national characteristic specialty construction points, 3 national experimental teaching demonstration centers and 2 National virtual simulation experimental teaching centers. There are 5 national teaching teams, 6 innovation teams of the Ministry of Education, 12 national quality courses, 4 national quality video open courses and 8 national quality resource sharing courses. At present, there are 20 966 full-time undergraduates and 8939 graduate students, including 2130 doctoral students. Since its establishment, more than 160,000 graduates have been trained and transported to the society. 19 alumni have become academicians of the two academies. They have made important contributions to the modernization of agriculture and the development of rural economy and society in Northwest China and even in the whole country.

The school has always adhered to the scientific and technological work principle of combining "top heaven" with "site", aiming at the international scientific and technological frontier, closely focusing on the national strategic needs and regional development needs, actively carried out applied basic research and applied technology research oriented to the actual agricultural production, in animal and plant breeding, plant protection, agricultural biotechnology, dryland agriculture and water-saving technology, soil and water loss in the Loess Plateau. The research fields of comprehensive governance have formed distinct characteristics and advantages. Since its establishment, the school has gained more than 6,000 scientific and technological achievements and more than 1,800 awards. The world's largest cumulative extension area of the fine wheat variety "Bima 1", the long-term dominant distant hybrid wheat variety "Xiaoyan 6", the largest independent cultivation and promotion area of the fine apple variety "Qinguan" and other important scientific and technological achievements, the direct economic benefits of promotion and transformation totaled more than 300 billion yuan.

Since joining the school, 40 national science and technology awards have been awarded, 13 of which have been completed under the leadership; 76 first-class awards for provincial and ministerial scientific and technological achievements have been completed under the leadership; and 1 highest achievement award for scientific and technological progress in Shaanxi Province has been awarded. 1323 patents for invention and 509 new varieties of animals and plants have been authorized by the state. Published 17322 SCI, EI and SSCI papers, including 2236 SCI, EI and SSCI papers which were the first signatories in 2017. At present, there are 8 schools affiliated with Shaanxi First-level Society of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Specialties, editing and publishing 20 academic journals, and establishing university publishing houses.

Facing the development needs of national and regional leading industries, the school actively carries out demonstration, promotion and industrialization of scientific and technological achievements. In our country, we are the first to explore and practice the new mode of agricultural science and Technology Extension Based on universities, and build the first batch of new rural development research institutes in our country. Establishing scientific and technological cooperation with more than 500 local governments or leading enterprises, 27 agricultural science and technology experimental demonstration stations and 46 demonstration bases in the central area of regional leading industries, and constructing a fast way for university agricultural science and technology achievements to enter the villages and households, which has accumulated more than 80 billion yuan of direct economic benefits. School Science Park and Overseas Students Pioneer Park entered the first batch of National University Science park.

Schools actively integrate into the "one belt and one way" construction and actively expand cooperation and exchanges in international science and technology education. It has established inter-university cooperation with 159 famous universities or scientific research institutions in the world, of which 14 universities rank among the top 100 in the world, with an annual average of 1000 foreign scholars coming to the University for academic exchanges. At present, there are 13 international scientific and technological cooperation platforms, including the China-US Center for Soil and Water Conservation and Environmental Protection and the China-Canada Center for Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation in Dry Areas. The Silk Road Agricultural Education Science and Technology Innovation Alliance initiated by the initiative has attracted 76 universities and scientific research institutions from 14 countries along the Silk Road. Since the 11th Five-Year Plan, 1609 students have been sent abroad to study. The school is qualified to receive scholarships from the Chinese government for overseas students. There are 294 foreign students on campus.

The campus area of the school is 5657.21 Mu and the building area is 128.06 million square meters. The total value of fixed assets is 4.745 billion yuan, including 1.236 billion yuan of equipment, 20.968 million printed books and 39.749 million electronic books. The campus layout is harmonious and unified, the effect of greening and beautifying is remarkable, and the harmony between nature and humanity enjoys the reputation of "ecological garden type university city".

The school has always adhered to the theme of "agriculture, countryside and farmers" development, and adhered to the close combination of production, teaching and research. It has developed from a single-disciplinary University dominated by agriculture to a national key university characterized by agriculture and coordinated development of multiple disciplines. At present, in accordance with the new planning objectives and strategic thinking of the school, the teachers and students of the whole school take the overall situation under the guidance of the scientific concept of development, and are striving to achieve the strategic goal of "highlighting the characteristics of production, education and research in close combination with running a school, and creating a world-class agricultural university".