Anhui Agricultural University, located in Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province, has a long history and rich heritage. It is one of the earliest established institutions of higher learning in Anhui Province. It is a university jointly built by the provincial government, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration. It is a local characteristic high-level university and a "Double First-Class" cultivation and creation university in Anhui Province.
The university originated from Anhui Provincial University, which was established in Anqing, the provincial capital, in 1928. It was renamed National Anhui University in 1946 and moved to Wuhu as a whole in 1949, where it was renamed Anhui University. In 1954, Anhui University was split into Anhui Normal College and Anhui Agricultural College. The independent Anhui Agricultural College, which moved from Wuhu to Hefei, was renamed Anhui Agricultural University in 1995.
Over the past century, Anhui Agricultural University has carried forward its fine traditions, continued its red bloodline, forged the Anhui Agricultural University spirit of "dedication, innovation and struggle", condensed the school motto of "down-to-earth", cultivated the school spirit of "unity, diligence, Truth-seeking and innovation", nurtured the teaching style of "respect, propriety, diligence and promotion of the way", and nurtured the learning style of "extensive learning, diligent action and good speech". The school has cultivated over 400,000 "Strong Agricultural Pioneers and social talents" for the country, including over 220,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students.
It has 20 colleges and departments, 29,928 full-time students (including 220 international students), and 7,204 master's and doctoral students. There are 2,365 full-time staff members, among whom 1,485 are full-time teachers (62.3% hold associate senior professional titles or above); There are 53 national-level talents and 281 provincial-level talents.
There is 1 ESI global top 1‰ discipline, 6 ESI global top 1% disciplines, 1 national key (cultivated) discipline, 19 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, 1 Anhui Province "Double First-Class" cultivated discipline, 4 Anhui Province peak disciplines, and 4 Anhui Province peak Cultivated disciplines. There are 7 first-level discipline postdoctoral research stations, 11 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 27 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 1 second-level discipline master's degree authorization point, and 19 master's professional degree authorization categories. There are 58 undergraduate programs available, including 17 national first-class undergraduate programs, 17 provincial first-class undergraduate programs, 5 national characteristic programs, 2 national comprehensive reform pilot programs, 2 national teaching teams, and 25 national first-class courses. In recent years, he/she has presided over and won the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award.
The university adheres to organized research and has 100 national and provincial-level research platforms, including the National Key Laboratory of Tea Germplasm Innovation and Resource Utilization and the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Crop Stress Resistance Breeding and Disaster Reduction. It has one Ministry of Education innovation team and 11 provincial "115" industrial innovation teams. Since the 14th Five-Year Plan, he has led and won one second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, one first prize of the National Agricultural, Animal Husbandry and Fishery Harvest Award, one major scientific and technological achievement Award of Anhui Province, five first prizes of the Anhui Science and Technology Progress Award, and 34 other provincial and ministerial awards. He has led the approval of 483 projects under the National Key Research and Development Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, including 110 projects under the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2025 and 24 projects under the Ministry of Education Humanities and Social Sciences. He has published over 1,200 papers in the first zone of the Chinese Academy of Sciences as the first author, including 15 in CNS sub-journals. He has bred 35 new varieties at the national level and 79 new varieties at the provincial level. He has led the formulation of 2 international standards and received 46 positive comments and policy reports from provincial and ministerial-level leaders.
The school is committed to strengthening agriculture and serving the country, constantly expanding the "Dabie Mountain path" of cultivating people and developing the school, enriching the people and strengthening agriculture, and university-local collaboration, and serving and supporting the transformation and upgrading of more than 60% of county-level agricultural leading characteristic industries in the province. Undertake the secretariat work of the "1+5" agricultural science and technology innovation alliance established by the provincial government and the national agricultural science and technology innovation "national team", and build the "Anhui Jianghuai Granary Research Institute" with high quality. Proposed and implemented the "Modern Young Farmers Training Program", and explored and formed the "one station, one alliance, one center" school-county co-construction mechanism, the "four-in-one integration" new agricultural science and technology extension service model, and the "schools support industries, industries gather enterprises, enterprises connect with large farmers, large farmers lead farmers" industrial assistance model.
The school adheres to open education, closely connects with local governments and prestigious universities, research institutes and enterprises, and collaborates with local authorities to build 8 comprehensive experimental stations, 32 characteristic experimental stations (research centers, research institutes), and 199 science and technology small courtyards. Led 283 leading enterprises to form the enterprise strategic alliance for Rural revitalization, led 58 universities in the province to form the provincial university alliance for rural construction, and led the "Hundred Schools Linking Hundred Counties to Revitalize Thousand Villages" and "Hundred Schools, Thousand Towns, Ten Thousand Villages Large-scale Research". We have vigorously implemented an internationalized education strategy and established stable cooperative relations with universities and research institutions in more than 30 countries and regions. It has been approved as a "University Accepting Chinese Government Scholarships for International Students", a national model international science and technology cooperation base, and a Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Agricultural foreign-related training and teaching base.
The school has always adhered to the socialist orientation of running schools, continuously strengthened the Party's overall leadership over the school's work, and vigorously implemented the "Soul-casting Project for New People of The Times". It has been recognized as a provincial model university for Party building work, one national model department for Party building work, five national model Party branches, one studio for teachers' Party branch secretaries of "Double leaders", and three teams for the "Strong Country Journey" special action of teachers' Party branch secretaries of "double Leaders" in national universities. Approved as one of the first batch of "all-round education" comprehensive reform pilot universities in Anhui Province, one of the first batch of "Integrated Teaching, management and Service Smart Ideological and Political Platform construction universities" in Anhui Province, awarded as "Advanced Collective of the National Education System", selected as an excellent case of "One-stop" student community style display by the Ministry of Education, and created a series of campus activity brands such as "Shennong Lecture Hall" and "Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Culture Festival".
In line with the deployment requirements of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the provincial government for the "1+5" agricultural science and technology innovation alliance and the construction of the Jianghuai Granary Research Institute, we will work hard to strive for excellence, accelerate the construction of a characteristic high-level university with integrated development of agriculture, industry and commerce, and strive to make new and greater contributions to serving the construction of a beautiful Anhui with Chinese-style modernization. (Data as of October 2025)
