Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University

The discipline features distinctively. The university has 12 first-level discipline doctoral programs and 4 doctoral professional degree authorization points, as well as 28 first-level discipline master's programs and 22 master's professional degree authorization points, covering 10 categories including science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, economics, law, literature, management, art, and interdisciplinary studies. The university adheres to the "five-in-one" development strategy of disciplines, talents, platform bases, internationalization and digitalization, and builds a "one body and two wings" discipline layout with agricultural and forestry disciplines as the main body and characteristic engineering and humanities and social sciences as the two wings, forming a distinctive educational feature of prominent advantages in agricultural and forestry sciences and life sciences, and integrated development of agricultural engineering, agricultural science, agricultural arts and agricultural medicine. The school's main agricultural and forestry disciplines such as plant protection and forestry, as well as its basic biological disciplines, have significant development advantages and possess strong comprehensive strength and influence. The university has 10 subject areas in the ESI global ranking of the top 1 per thousand. Among them, plant and animal science and agricultural science are in the ESI global ranking of the top 1 per thousand, ranking first among all "non-double non" agricultural and forestry universities in China. In recent years, the university has strengthened interdisciplinary integration and development, vigorously developed emerging interdisciplinary fields such as biological breeding, smart agriculture, biomedicine and green food, and added eight secondary disciplines outside the directory, such as agricultural artificial intelligence, and five interdisciplinary fields such as agricultural and forestry big data science and engineering.

The school has achieved remarkable results in nurturing students. The school has 23 secondary colleges and one independent college, Jinshan College, with more than 38,000 students, including 27,000 undergraduates, 11,000 postgraduates, and more than 12,000 students from Jinshan College. There are 82 undergraduate programs available, including 46 national and provincial first-class undergraduate programs and 9 national engineering education accreditation programs. In recent years, the university has been making solid progress in empowering new agricultural science with digital technology, biotechnology and engineering technology. It has established seven new colleges, namely the Future Technology College, the Rural Revitalization College, the Ocean College, the Digital Economy College, the Mushroom Grass and Ecology College (Carbon Neutrality College), the Apiculture and Biomedicine College and the Dalhousie University Joint College, and added 17 "four new" majors, including smart agriculture. Two national experimental teaching demonstration centers and two Ministry of Education virtual teaching and research rooms have been established, and 300 national and provincial first-class undergraduate courses have been built. The university has won the "Challenge Cup" and "Chuangqingchun" competition "Victory Cup" seven times, and has been selected as one of the first batch of top 50 universities for innovation and entrepreneurship by the Ministry of Education, one of the first batch of national innovation and entrepreneurship colleges, and a national base for innovation and entrepreneurship in practical education of colleges and universities. The school is committed to cultivating high-quality agricultural and forestry talents with a solid foundation, practical work, simple character and down-to-earth style, guided by the "doer education culture". Over the past 80-plus years, the school has produced and delivered more than 300,000 outstanding graduates to the country and society. The school's graduates have taken root in Fujian Province and spread all over the world. Most of them have become leaders in grassroots units and the backbone of agriculture-related industries, earning wide acclaim for their excellent comprehensive qualities.

The school has a strong faculty. The school adheres to the strategy of "strengthening the school with talent", deeply implements the "Double Hundred Plan" of introducing 100 people and climbing 100 people, and actively builds a talent highland in the field of agriculture and forestry. There are currently 681 full-time talents (1,109 person-times) at the provincial level and above, among which 91 are national-level talents (185 person-times), ranking among the top universities in Fujian Province. Among the national high-level talents, there are 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 academician of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, 3 members of The State Council's Discipline Evaluation Group, 5 members of the National Professional Degree Graduate Education Guidance Committee, 14 "Chang Jiang Scholars" of the Ministry of Education, 12 National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 18 National Ten Thousand Talents Program, 16 National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars, 8 National Outstanding Middle-aged and Young experts, and National Hundred Talents There are 13 candidates for the Ten Thousand Talents Project. It has two national-level teaching teams, three national university Huang Danyan-style teacher teams, one Ministry of Education innovation team, two Ministry of Science and Technology Innovation teams under the "Innovation Talent Promotion Program", two Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs innovation teams, and three National Forestry and Grassland Administration science and technology innovation teams. The school has been selected as a national demonstration base for the cultivation of innovative talents, one college has been awarded as an advanced collective in the national education system, and two bases have been selected as part of the National Discipline Innovation and Intelligence Introduction Program. Representatives of the 19th and 20th National congresses of the Communist Party of China, National People's Congress deputies, "Touching China" person of the year, national most beautiful teacher, National Model Teacher, National Excellent Teacher, National March 8th Red Flag Bearer, "Fujian Model" and other advanced examples have emerged.

The achievements in scientific research are remarkable. The school adheres to the "Four Orientations" and conducts organized research around national strategies and regional development needs. It has developed distinct characteristics and leading advantages in basic research such as plant viruses, crop genomes, rice, sugarcane, fir, tea, orchids, bees, edible fungi, large yellow croaker, and applied research such as fungus grass, agricultural and forestry biosecurity, ecological governance, biomass utilization, Marine food processing, and collective forest tenure reform. Eight national-level innovation platforms, including the National Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Forestry Biosecurity, the National Key Laboratory of Marine Aquaculture Biotechnology Breeding, the National Engineering Research Center for Mycolium Grass, and the National Engineering Research Center for Sugarcane, and 45 ministerial-level innovation platforms have been established. The "talent Special zone" Strait Joint Research Institute, which has nine research centers including genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, root biology, plant immunity, synthetic biology, genetic improvement, agricultural artificial intelligence and agricultural and forestry big data, has established 39 research teams and achieved remarkable development results. It has been hailed by Guangming Daily as the "Silicon Valley" of the campus. The university's scientific and technological innovation capabilities rank among the top in Fujian Province and among domestic agricultural and forestry universities. It has won 35 major national science and technology awards, including the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. It has produced a number of landmark achievements in the field of agricultural and forestry crop genome research, and has successively deciphered the genomes of sugarcane, longan, pineapple, tetraploid peanut cultivars, orchid, water lily, minnan, zebra grass, papaya, Fuzhou single-petal jasmine and double-petal jasmine, and hexaploid bambusa. At the forefront of the world in basic research fields such as plant Science, 19 high-level research results have been published in the three top international academic journals Science, Nature and Cell as the first completing unit or corresponding author unit.
Outstanding service contributions. The school is the inventor of the fungus grass technology, which has been promoted to 107 countries and regions around the world and has become an important calling card for agricultural science and technology foreign aid in Fujian Province and even China, making significant contributions to the global poverty reduction cause. The school actively builds a social service model that closely integrates industry, academia and research. With the characteristic of serving county-level industrial chains as its feature, it has cooperated with local governments to jointly build 13 industrial research institutes and 9 county-level rural revitalization research institutes, and established 75 science and technology small courtyards in 51 counties across the province (accounting for 87.2% of the province), strongly supporting the development of modern agricultural industry and the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas in Fujian. The new varieties of sugarcane, jute, fir, sweet potato, peanut, tea, vegetables and flowers bred by the school and the practical technical achievements formed have been promoted to cover the major production areas across the country. The school led the development of two international standards for oolong tea and white tea, marking a major breakthrough in the international standardization of China's tea products. We have continued to deepen the work of science and technology commissioners. Over the past five years, we have sent more than 2,000 science and technology commissioners and over 600 teams of science and technology commissioners, ranking first among all universities in the province. Undertake the "Head Goose" project for cultivating leading figures in rural industrial revitalization, and have trained more than 1,200 students in total. The brand of targeted assistance and service for poverty alleviation has been established, and services have been provided to more than ten provinces and regions including Ningxia and Gansu. The targeted poverty alleviation assistance work has achieved remarkable results, with the assistance of science and technology for the control of soil erosion in Changting and the promotion of the "Four Ones" forestry and grassland project in Guyuan through Fujian-Ningxia cooperation. Cases of teachers and students serving rural revitalization and global poverty reduction have been selected for the United Nations' "Best Global Poverty Reduction Cases" four times and for the Ministry of Education's provincial universities' targeted assistance typical projects twice.
Open education is active. The school is an institution designated by the Ministry of Education to receive Chinese government scholarships for international students, and more than 160 international students from 40 countries are studying for degrees. The university has established a Confucius Institute in collaboration with Durban University of Technology in South Africa. It has trained over 10,000 students and has been recognized as a "Global Advanced Confucius Institute" and approved to build a "Global Model Confucius Institute". The university has established partnerships with over 100 institutions in more than 30 countries and regions around the world. It has one non-independent legal entity Sino-foreign cooperative education institution - Dalhousie University Joint College and five Sino-foreign cooperative education programs, as well as more than 20 student joint training and exchange programs with renowned foreign universities. The school has taken the lead in exploring new paths for the integration of agricultural science and education between Fujian and Taiwan. It has been the first to recruit students from Taiwan independently and has jointly launched five "4+0" Fujian-Taiwan cooperative education programs with well-known Taiwanese universities. It has also built 22 scientific and technological innovation platforms with Taiwanese universities and research institutions and has been providing correspondence education to members of Taiwan Agricultural industry associations for many consecutive years. It also offers a wide range of programs for Taiwanese students, including full-time undergraduate, master's and doctoral students.
The university has three campuses: Fuzhou Cangshan Campus, Fuzhou University Town Campus, Quanzhou Anxi Campus and Nanping Campus. The campus covers a total area of over 4,900 mu, along with a science and education base of over 200 mu, a teaching forest farm of over 55,000 mu, and a planned construction area of 2,000 mu for the Nanping campus. It has a library collection of 3.55 million volumes of paper books (including bound periodicals) and 3.43 million volumes of electronic books (including electronic periodicals). The school has been awarded the title of National Civilized Unit for three consecutive terms and National Civilized Campus for two consecutive terms. Jinshan Campus, surrounded by mountains and water, has a beautiful environment, lush flowers and trees, shimmering water and pleasant scenery. It is a successful model of the integration of campus and botanical garden, and has been hailed by many netizens as one of the "most beautiful universities in China". The school is well-equipped with advanced teaching, research and living facilities, and has a strong academic and cultural atmosphere, making it an ideal place for students to pursue their studies and achieve success.

In the new era and on the new journey, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University will take moral education as its foundation, strengthen agriculture and revitalize agriculture as its mission, enhance its internal construction, focus on reform and innovation, promote high-quality development in all aspects, cultivate more new talents who know and love agriculture, produce more high-tech achievements in agriculture, and accelerate the construction of a first-class university with distinct agricultural and forestry characteristics. Strive to build the university into a "base for cultivating innovative talents, a research base for knowledge innovation, a base for tackling key technologies and a base for incubating high-tech industries", and make new and greater contributions to advancing the modernization of agriculture and rural areas and building a strong agricultural country, and to striving to write a Fujian chapter of Chinese-style modernization.