As a university directly under the Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University is the origin of modern agricultural higher education in China. Its history originated from the Agricultural University of Beijing Normal University, founded in 1905. In September 1949, the Agricultural College of Peking University, Tsinghua University and North China University merged into Beijing Agricultural University. In October 1952, the Agricultural Machinery Department of Beijing Agricultural University merged with the Agricultural Machinery College of the Central Ministry of Agriculture, the North China Agricultural Machinery College and the Agricultural College of Plain Province to establish the Beijing Agricultural Mechanization College, which was renamed Beijing Agricultural Engineering University in October 1985. In September 1995, Beijing Agricultural University and Beijing Agricultural Engineering University merged to establish China Agricultural University. Comrade Jiang Zemin wrote the name of the University himself. Jiang Peimin, the current Secretary of the Party Committee, and Sun Qixin, the principal.

For a long time, the construction and development of schools have been attached great importance by the state. Beijing Agricultural University was listed by the State Council as one of the six key universities in 1954 and one of the 10 key universities in 1984. Beijing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization was listed as one of the key universities in China in 1960. In 1995, the school entered the first batch of "211 Project" construction ranks. In 2004, it was designated as a high-level research university with "985 Project" key construction. In 2017, it was selected as a first-class university construction university (category A). On May 4, 2003, Premier Wen Jiabao of the State Council visited China Agricultural University and delivered an important speech. On October 13, 2005, Chairman Wu Bangguo of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress visited China Agricultural University to congratulate it on its centennial construction and encourage it to create new brilliance. On May 2, 2009, President Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, visited China Agricultural University and held cordial discussions with representatives of teachers and students. He raised ardent expectations for young students and put forward the requirement of "speeding up the pace of building a world-class agricultural university". On May 2, 2010, General Secretary Hu Jintao wrote back to the teachers and students of China Agricultural University, encouraging them to make greater contributions to the development of modern agriculture. On September 15, 2012, Comrade Xi Jinping, then Vice-President of the State, came to Beijing for the National Science Popularization Day. During his inspection of the school, he asked the school to teach, educate people and build the Party "grasp two hands and promote two without delay" and "truly build a first-class university with Chinese characteristics and agricultural characteristics", which further pointed out the direction for the development of the school and greatly stimulated the responsibility of teachers and students of the whole school. Sense of self-indulgence and sense of mission.

After centuries of ups and downs, China Agricultural University has developed into a research university featuring agriculture, life sciences, agricultural engineering and food sciences. It has formed such disciplines as agriculture and life sciences, resources and environment sciences, information and computer sciences, agricultural engineering and automation sciences, economic management and social sciences with distinct characteristics and complementary advantages. Group. The school has 18 colleges, covering 9 disciplines, such as agriculture, engineering, science, economics, management, law, literature, medicine, philosophy, etc. and graduate school, continuing education college and sports and art teaching department. In the fourth round of the evaluation of the level of first-level disciplines, 6 first-level disciplines were awarded A+, and the number of disciplines awarded A+ranked sixth in the national universities; there were three national key laboratories, one national engineering laboratory, two national engineering research centers, 85 provincial and ministerial key laboratories (centers and bases); one national field science observation and research station, and six ministerial field science concepts. Test station.

China Agricultural University has a strong and well-structured teaching staff. There are 1679 full-time teachers, including 620 professors (including researchers) and 855 associate professors (including associate researchers). There are 1479 graduate tutors, of which 873 are doctoral tutors. The school has five academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, seven academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 27 specially appointed professors of the Yangtze River Scholars Award Scheme, 45 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 15 chief scientists of the National 973 Program, 27 national candidates for the "Million Talents Project" in the new century, and 143 candidates for the "Excellent Talents Support Plan for the New Century" of the Ministry of Education. There are 74 specialists in government special allowances. A number of renowned scholars at home and abroad, including Nobel Prize winners in physiology or medicine, James Watson, the father of DNA, and academician Yuan Longping, the outstanding agricultural scientist and father of hybrid rice, were employed as honorary professors.

China Agricultural University has a complete education system to train bachelors, masters and doctorates. The school has 15 post-doctoral mobile stations, 20 doctoral degree authorized first-level disciplines, 95 doctoral degree authorized points, 29 master degree authorized first-level disciplines, 144 master degree authorized points, 9 professional degree types and 33 professional degree fields; 65 undergraduate disciplines, including biology and chemistry, are included in the National Science Basic Disciplines Research and Education Personnel Training Medium. Land ". There are 11 503 full-time undergraduates and 7 780 full-time postgraduates, including 4 486 full-time postgraduates, 3 294 full-time doctoral postgraduates and 233 postdoctoral researchers.

China Agricultural University adheres to the concept of moral education as the first, ability as the most important and all-round development of talents, and cultivates top-notch innovative talents with patriotism and social responsibility, proficiency in professional knowledge and skills, and strong comprehensive ability. The school has 2 famous teachers of the National High-level Talents Special Support Program ("Ten Thousands of People Program"), 2 famous teachers of national level and 34 famous teachers of Beijing teaching, 5 excellent teaching teams of national level and 10 excellent teaching teams of Beijing, 14 specialties of national level and 2 innovative experimental zones of national talent training mode. The school has continuously deepened the reform of teaching contents and methods, and has built 23 national quality courses, 15 quality resource sharing courses, 2 quality video open courses, 7 national quality online open courses and 25 Beijing quality courses; 122 textbooks have been selected into the national "11th Five-Year Plan" textbooks; 17 textbooks have been selected into the national "12th Five-Year Plan" textbooks; and further strengthened the laboratory. 3 National Experimental Teaching Demonstration centers, 3 National virtual simulation experimental teaching centers and 7 Beijing experimental teaching demonstration centers are established for the construction of practice bases. Through strengthening the cultivation of practical and innovative ability, an innovative talent training system has been established, which lays a good foundation for carrying out high-level research teaching, and college students'scientific and technological innovation activities are active. Since 2008, our undergraduate students have published 425 high-level academic papers with the support of various innovative projects, including Science 1, SCI 292, EI 71, ISTP 7, CSCD 19; students have applied for 264 patents and software copyrights, including 189 invention patents, 47 utility model patents, 11 design patents, 17 software copyrights; students have won provincial and ministerial level and above. There are 1464 awards in the subject contest. We will deepen the reform of postgraduate education and teaching, fully implement the "application and assessment system" for doctoral students, further improve the quality assurance system for postgraduate dissertations, and promote the continuous improvement of the quality of dissertations. A total of 23 doctoral dissertations were selected as "National Excellent Doctoral Dissertations", ranking the top among universities in the country. The school has trained more than 130,000 qualified graduates and achieved a large number of educational and teaching results. It has passed the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education with excellent results. The quality and level of running a school have been widely recognized by all sectors of society. In 2017, there were 2787 undergraduate graduates, 1717 master graduates and 692 doctoral graduates.

Focusing on human nutrition and health, China Agricultural University, guided by the major needs of national agricultural science and technology and international academic frontiers, carries out high-level scientific research, social services and cultural inheritance and innovation. Research in high-tech fields of biology and agriculture is in the leading position in China. He presided over 22 projects of the National Key Basic Research Program ("973 Program"), including one major scientific problem-oriented project and one major scientific research project, and 6 chief scientists of the National Modern Agricultural Industry Technology System. Since 2001, it has won 84 National Science and technology awards, 509 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards and 4115 authorized patents. Academician Shi Yuanchun has been awarded the National Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress for his research on "Research and Development of Comprehensive Management of Middle and Low-yielding Areas in the Huanghuai-Haihai Plain". Twenty-three high-level research papers have been published in the famous international journals SCIENCE, CELL, NATURE and NATURE GENETICS, which has laid a leading position in basic research. In 2017, the number of papers included by SCI, EI and SSCI reached 2425. Among the evaluation indexes of ESI discipline, 10 disciplines and papers of agriculture, plant and animal sciences, environment/ecology, biology and biochemistry, chemistry, microbiology, engineering, molecular biology and genetics, social sciences, pharmacology and toxicology in our university have been cited in the top 1% of the world, including agricultural sciences, plant and animal sciences. The total number of subjects cited remained in the top 1 per thousand in the world. Schools actively cooperate with governments at all levels and enterprises at home and abroad in the fields of government, industry, education and research. By transferring scientific and technological achievements, authorizing production and investing in shares at a price, the school promotes the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, provides technical support for national economic development, and provides motive force for scientific and technological innovation of enterprises. The school's patent achievements and practical technologies have been extended to cover the whole country, and a number of major scientific and technological innovations have become achievements. Leading technology in related industries. Focusing on the major needs of the state, regional development and industrial development, based on Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, with top-level design, overall layout and leading ideas, and aiming at the major needs of the state, local governments and enterprises, combined with the needs of scientific research, personnel training and social service in our university, 67 comprehensive laboratory stations (professor workstations) have been built in the relevant regions of the country as districts. Regional economic and social development provides comprehensive services such as planning and design, technical guidance and social management; further exploring the areas of transformation of achievements and social services, expanding transformation channels, expanding service areas, and striving to explore new mechanisms and modes of scientific and technological service to local areas. Scientific and technological cooperation agreements have been signed with more than 10 provinces, Autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and more than 70 cities to provide local economy. Development provides technical support; every year, our school signs more than 630 contracts with local governments on R&D and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, speeding up the transfer of scientific and technological achievements to enterprises; relying on experts and team members of modern agricultural industry technology system to solve technical problems in industrial development, relying on experimental stations, professors'workstations, science and technology courtyards, etc. to meet the needs of local and agricultural industry development. Grass-roots agricultural cadres, managers of agricultural enterprises, grass-roots technicians, farmers and other personnel to carry out more than 50,000 person-time skills training, for our school's scientific and technological achievements to promote demonstration and transformation has played a prominent role.

China Agricultural University extensively carries out international exchanges and cooperation, strives to expand opening up and accelerate the process of internationalization. While strengthening cooperation with world-class universities, we actively responded to the "one belt and one way" initiative, and explored the plan of cooperation and exchange of agricultural research and education with state institutions along the belt and road. The school has established friendly cooperative relations with 231 universities and research institutes in 43 countries and regions such as the United States, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Britain, the Netherlands, France, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Russia, Kazakhstan, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Tanzania, etc. There are 11 joint research centers in cooperation with Purdue University in the United States and Wageningen University in the Netherlands. There are also international education, scientific research and training institutions such as International College, China-Germany Comprehensive Agricultural Development Center and China-Israel International Agricultural Training Center. The school attaches great importance to the cultivation of undergraduate students'international vision and innovative spirit, and extensively carries out exchange projects, short-term exchange projects, exchange internship projects and other undergraduate exchange projects with overseas universities. The University of California, Davis, Maryland, Colorado State University, Rutgers University, Purdue University, Alberta University in Canada and Edinburgh University in the United Kingdom carry out various forms of joint training programs for undergraduates on the premise of mutual recognition of credits.

China Agricultural University attaches great importance to the cultivation of students'comprehensive quality, actively carries out the second classroom education activities, and the campus cultural life is rich and colorful. Give full play to the self-management, self-education and self-service of student unions and postgraduate associations, and guide students to participate in the democratic management of schools in a standardized and orderly manner. There are 81 school-level student associations and 15 college-level student associations in the school, including support for public welfare, ideological and political, academic and technological, self-discipline and mutual assistance, sports and culture and other types. Members of the school's Fengyun Club have represented contemporary college students to become the Olympic Everest torch bearers; the Rural Development Research Association and the Friends Club have been awarded the "National Excellent Student Club", and the school's skiing club has won the first place in the men's and women's groups of the National College Students'skiing challenge competition. Every year, the school organizes more than 3000 students to participate in social practice activities to provide suggestions and suggestions for serving the strategy of Rural Revitalization in China. In the process of serving the development of the cause of "agriculture, countryside and farmers", the school writes its own thesis on the land of the motherland and obtains excellent organizational units for summer social practice of university students in the capital for 10 consecutive years. College students'scientific and technological innovation and entrepreneurship activities are vigorously carried out, relying on the University Students' Science and Technology Association and the Joint Venture Association to carry out the "double-creation" work, and many times in the "Challenge Cup" National College Students'Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition, "Creating Youth" Chinese College Students' Entrepreneurship Plan Competition, "Overflowing" Creative Competition, National Electronic Design Competition, National Machinery Innovation Design Competition Students'mathematical modeling and computer application competitions have achieved excellent results, and college students' innovation and entrepreneurship ability and enthusiasm continue to improve. Promote volunteer service, integrate into freshmen's entrance education, and cultivate students'sense of responsibility and dedication. Actively organize students to participate in the Olympic Games, 60th anniversary of National Day, Garden Expo, World Championships, Beijing Half Marathon, 110th anniversary of the school festival and other large-scale volunteer services, many times won praise from superiors. There are 65 normal volunteer service projects in our school, covering poverty alleviation, poverty alleviation, helping the elderly, rescuing the orphans, helping the disabled, helping others and other fields. Our "Youth Yueyang Warm Home" project won the silver prize in the third China Youth Volunteer Service Project Competition. Rugby team of China Agricultural University is the first rugby team in mainland China. It has participated in international competitions on behalf of the country many times and won glory for the motherland. In November 2010, at the Guangzhou Asian Games, the Chinese Rugby Women's Team, mainly composed of students from our school, won the silver medal and the men's team won the fourth place. In 2017, our men's rugby team won five consecutive championships in the national seven-person college rugby championship. In 2017, our football team won the runner-up in the National Finals of the Super Group of China University Campus Football League, creating the best results in history. The track and field team has also won many championships in top competitions of universities in Beijing, and has achieved excellent results in the National College competition. After years of efforts, art education in our school has developed vigorously, and has formed its own characteristics in art education, Art Troupe management and so on. At present, there are well-organized art troupes for college students, including chorus, wind orchestra, dance troupe, drama troupe, folk orchestra, string orchestra and musical troupe. The delegations have made outstanding achievements in the activities of the Art Festival for College Students organized by the Ministry of Education. In 2017, he won seven awards, including three first-class awards, one excellent organization award, one excellent actor award, one excellent playwright award and one excellent creation award. Our chorus and orchestra have been awarded the Beijing University Student Art Troupe successively, and have passed the evaluation of the Beijing Education Committee for several consecutive sessions to achieve exemption from inspection. The Song of Crops, reflecting the unique spirit of running a school and the centuries-old cultural heritage of China Agricultural University, has exerted a tremendous influence in Beijing and other universities. These art groups fully demonstrate the unique artistic characteristics and charm of our school.

Wealth of the country and the people, strong agriculture-oriented. Understanding the difficulties of people's livelihood and educating the world's talents are our unchanged pursuit for a hundred years. For generations, agricultural universities have been deeply concerned about the countryside. They have spared no effort to realize the Chinese people's dream of being warm, saturated and prosperous for thousands of years. They have maintained the closest flesh-and-blood contact with the motherland and the people. They have formed the school's unique tradition of diligence, patriotism and concern for the people, and the rigorous and realistic school-running tradition. Today's Agricultural University of China, guided by Xi Jinping's socialist ideology with Chinese characteristics in the new era, takes training "three rural" talents, upgrading the level of agricultural science and technology as its own responsibility, maintains the dominant disciplines in agriculture, develops various new disciplines, is closely linked with the rapidly changing world, develops with the rapid development of science and technology, and moves towards building a world-class university with Chinese characteristics and agricultural characteristics. Academic goal strides forward.