One of the national key universities, South China Agricultural University is a “211 Project” university sponsored by both Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Agriculture during the ninth and tenth “Five-year Plan”. The university is also ranked to be “excellent” by the Inspection for Undergraduate Education organized by the Ministry of Education. Situated at Guangzhou, the “city of flowers”, the university enjoys beautiful scenery and pleasant environment. The campus covers an area of over 8250 mu (550 hectares), and the total gross floor area is over 1.37 million square meters. The history of SCAU can be traced back to 1909 when Guangdong Agricultural Experimental Station affiliated with an Agricultural School was founded. After years of development and efforts, when the nationwide readjustments of university and college resources took place in 1952, the Station was already called the Agricultural College and became part of the National Sun Yat-Sen University. The college merged with the Agricultural College of Lingnan University and part of the Department of Veterinary Medicine as well as the Department of Pest Pathology of Guangxi University, and formed South China Agricultural College under the administration of the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA). Chairman Mao Zedong autographed the college name.
South China Agricultural University is a national key university, a "211 Project" university jointly established by Guangdong Province and the Ministry of Agriculture, and a high-level university in Guangdong Province as a key construction university. The campus is located in Guangzhou, known as the "Flower City", with a total land area of ​​more than 8,306 acres, including 4,443 acres of Tianhe Wushan Campus and 3,863 acres of teaching and research bases in Zengcheng. The total building area of ​​the school is 1.45 million square meters. Natural scenery and human landscape complement each other, forming a "Bauhinia Campus with a forest of five lakes and a sea" .
The school's long history of running a school can be traced back to the Guangdong Provincial Agricultural Experimental Farm and the attached agricultural workshop, which was founded in 1909. In 1952, during the adjustment of the colleges and universities across the country, a part of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Diseases and Pests and Diseases of the Agricultural College of Sun Yat-sen University, the Agricultural College of Lingnan University, and the Agricultural College of Guangxi University was merged to form the South China Agricultural College, under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture; School name. In 1984, it was renamed South China Agricultural University. In 2000, the state deepened the reform of the management system of colleges and universities. The school was placed under the supervision of Guangdong Province by the Ministry of Agriculture. In December 2004, he was rated as excellent in the evaluation of the undergraduate teaching work level of the Ministry of Education. The current party secretary of the school is Wang Binwei and the principal is Liu Yahong.
In the course of more than a century of school running, the school has formed a fine school tradition, distinctive school characteristics and a "ethics, erudition, truth-seeking, and innovative" school style. It has established graduate education, undergraduate education, and continuing education at various levels and forms School running system. The school has a complete range of disciplines, with 98 undergraduate majors, 12 doctoral degree first-level disciplines, 1 doctoral degree category, 28 master's degree first-level disciplines, and 15 master's degree categories; there are agricultural insect and pest control, 5 national key disciplines of crop genetics and breeding, agricultural economic management, fruit science and preventive veterinary science, 1 national key (cultivation) discipline of agricultural mechanization engineering, 24 provincial and ministerial key disciplines (including 5 key disciplines of the Ministry of Agriculture, 13 Guangdong Province key disciplines, 4 Guangdong Province key disciplines and 2 State Forestry Administration key disciplines). Animal and plant sciences, agricultural sciences, chemistry, microbiology, materials science, and engineering have entered the top 1% of the ESI world ranking.
The school has strong teachers. At present, there are about 3400 faculty members, 1557 professors and associate professors. Among them, 55 are academicians, Yangtze River scholars, National Jieqing, Ten Thousand Talents Plan, and 92 provincial talents, including Zhujiang Scholars and Guangdong Special Support Plan. There are 4 national famous teaching teachers / special teaching plan teaching teachers, 4 national teaching teams, 298 doctoral supervisors, and 1314 master supervisors.
The school is committed to innovating the talent training model, and strives to cultivate high-quality specialized talents and outstanding innovative talents with persistent beliefs, good morals, rich knowledge, and strong skills. The school has 27 colleges (departments) and currently has more than 43,000 full-time students, including more than 37,000 undergraduates, more than 6,500 graduate students, and 224 international students from 64 countries and regions. There are 13 national-level excellent (including bilingual) courses, 2 high-quality video public courses, 6 high-quality resource sharing courses, and 1 online open course; 12 national-level specialty programs, 2 professional comprehensive reform pilots, and outstanding agricultural and forestry talent education 8 pilot programs for training plan reform; 1 national-level talent training model innovation experimental zone; 4 national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers; 6 national-level college students' out-of-school practical education bases (including agricultural science and technology cooperation talent training bases); 6 national virtual simulations 2 experimental teaching projects; 1 national cultural education base for college students. In the past two sessions, he has won 5 national teaching achievement awards (among which the host won 1 first prize and 3 second prizes ) . The school has formed a new model of talent training at different levels with Ding Ying's innovative class as the breakthrough point, majors and minors, dual degrees, and international joint education as the main line, and the combination of points, lines, and areas based on platforms and modules; The implementation of the graduate education innovation plan has achieved remarkable results. At present, the school has won a total of 4 outstanding doctoral dissertations and 6 nominated dissertations. The dissertation covers agronomy, engineering, and management. In 2018, it was identified as a pilot university for comprehensive reform of "three comprehensive education" by the Ministry of Education. In 2014, it was named the "National Typical College of Graduate Employment Experience" by the Ministry of Education.
The school has good conditions for conducting scientific research. Existing State Key Laboratory for the Protection and Utilization of Subtropical Agricultural Biological Resources, National Engineering Research Center for Plant Spaceflight Breeding, National Engineering Research Center for Swine Seed Industry, National Joint Engineering Laboratory for Animal Disease Control and Prevention, Animal and Poultry Breeding National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center (Guangdong), National Veterinary Microbial Drug Resistance Risk Assessment Laboratory, Precision Processing and Safety Control Technology for Livestock and Poultry Products, National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center (Guangdong), International Joint Research on National Precision Agriculture Aviation Technology 8 national research platforms including the Center, 11 post-doctoral scientific research mobile stations, 2 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 9 key laboratories of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, 3 scientific observation and experimental stations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural areas, and 2 research bases of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural areas , 1 National African Swine Fever Regional Laboratory (Guangzhou) (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas), 1 National Technical Research and Development Professional Center (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas), 1 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas Agricultural Products Storage Quality and Safety Risk Assessment Laboratory (Guangzhou), 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Natural Resources, 15 key laboratories of Guangdong Province, There are 1 Guangdong Engineering Laboratory, 3 Engineering Research Centers of the Ministry of Education, 34 Engineering Technology Research Centers in Guangdong Province, 8 Demonstration Bases for Production-University-Research Combination in General Universities in Guangdong Province, and 2 Key Research Bases in Humanities and Social Sciences in Guangdong Province. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural New Varieties of Plants test sub-centers (Guangzhou), agriculture and rural areas of Animal Product Quality Supervision and Testing Center (Guangzhou) , agriculture and rural areas the Ministry of plants and plant microbial ecological security Supervision and Testing Center (Guangzhou) , Guangdong Rural Policy The research center, the Guangdong Low Carbon Economy and Climate Change Research Center, and the Guangdong Quality Supervision Wood and Wood Products Inspection Station are all located in the school. School teaching service conditions are excellent. The library has more than 9,200,700 volumes (including electronic documents); the campus network can be connected to the Internet at a high speed; the modern educational technology center has advanced audiovisual production and multimedia courseware production equipment, which can provide teachers and students with modern educational technology and teaching conditions. There are on-campus and foreign-language teaching radio stations, graduate employment guidance centers, work-study management service centers, mental health counseling centers, and student activity centers that directly serve college students; 13 on-campus teaching practice bases and 548 off-campus teaching Practice base; 4 standard plastic track sports fields and various sports fields are built