Gansu Agricultural University is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the People's Government of Gansu Province, one of the top 100 universities in the central and western regions under national key construction, and a high-level university in Gansu Province. Its predecessor was the National Veterinary College founded in Lanzhou in October 1946. In 1950, it was renamed Northwest Veterinary College; in 1951, it was renamed Northwest College of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine; in 1958, it merged with the Gansu Agricultural College under preparation to form Gansu Agricultural University. The school is located in Anning District, Lanzhou City, covering an area of 2,378 acres (including the experimental base), and the school building area is 700,000 square meters. There are now 23 colleges (teaching departments). Agricultural sciences, plant and animal sciences have entered the top 1% of the world's ESI subject rankings, and herbology has been selected into the national first-class discipline breakthrough project of Gansu provincial universities. There are 69 undergraduate majors, including 11 national-level first-class undergraduate majors such as food science and engineering, 5 national-level specialty majors such as animal medicine, and 18 provincial-level first-class undergraduate majors such as biotechnology; 1 national-level key discipline (grass industry Science), 1 key discipline of the Ministry of Agriculture and 18 provincial key disciplines. 5 postdoctoral research mobile stations, 8 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 1 interdisciplinary doctoral degree authorization point, 1 professional doctoral degree authorization category, 19 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 11 professional degree authorization categories . The school has 1,530 faculty members, 10 national-level high-level talents, 1 member of the Discipline Evaluation Group of the State Council Degree Committee, 1 member of the National Professional Degree Graduate Education Steering Committee, and a post-scientist and comprehensive experimental station for the modern agricultural industry technology system of the Ministry of Agriculture. There are 15 webmasters, 1 Huang Danian-style teacher team in national universities, 1 national outstanding teacher, 1 national education system model worker, 1 national outstanding professional and technical talent, 1 national forestry and grassland teaching teacher, and the Ministry of Education's "New Century" "Excellent Talent Support Program" 1 person; 1 science and technology hero of Gansu Province, 29 leading talents of Gansu Province, 3 young talents of Longyuan of Gansu Province, 26 Feitian Scholars of Gansu Province, 329 talents of Longyuan of Gansu Province, modern agriculture of Gansu Province There are 8 chief experts in the industrial technology system, 3 Gansu Provincial Distinguished Scientific and Technological Experts, and 27 Gansu Provincial Famous Teachers, Excellent Experts, and Excellent Teachers. The school began recruiting graduate students in 1953 and is among the first batch of bachelor's and master's degree-granting units and the second batch of doctoral degree-granting units among colleges and universities in my country. There are currently 17,530 undergraduate students, 4,023 master’s students, and 688 doctoral students. So far, it has trained more than 230,000 senior professionals of various types for the country, and has produced a large number of well-known alumni such as Yang Ziheng, the first Chinese academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Shang Yongfeng and Chen Hualan, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Nan Zhibiao, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In the past five years, the school has undertaken a total of 2,206 scientific research projects of various types, with a total funding of 620 million yuan. It has won 104 scientific research achievements, including 87 provincial and ministerial awards, more than 1,720 authorized patents, and published 226 monographs and textbooks. He has published more than 12,000 papers in domestic and foreign academic journals, including more than 4,000 high-level papers. At present, the school is undertaking more than 390 national-level projects such as the National Key Research and Development Plan and the National Natural (Social) Science Foundation. It is engaged in grassland science, dry farming, facility agriculture, circular agriculture, water-saving agriculture, variety selection, green production, A number of significant research results have been achieved in agricultural product processing and other aspects. There are 1 national key laboratory, 1 key laboratory for forage germplasm innovation and new variety breeding of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (co-constructed by the ministry and province), 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration for high-cold rodent control. There is 1 controlled engineering technology research center, 14 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 52 provincial key laboratories, engineering laboratories and various research centers (bases) jointly built by the province and the ministry. The school attaches great importance to international exchanges and cooperation and implements an international development strategy. It has maintained joint student training, academic exchanges and scientific research cooperation with more than 60 universities and scientific research institutions in more than 20 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Peru, Ghana, and South Korea, and has established the "China-US Grassland" in cooperation with the United States and other countries. "Research Center for Sustainable Development of Animal Husbandry", conducts cooperative research with international institutions such as the International Potato Center, the International Corn and Wheat Improvement Center, and the International Seabuckthorn Research Center, and has successively joined the China-Central and Eastern European Universities Association, China Agricultural Universities Silk Road Agriculture Educational Science and Technology Innovation Alliance, “One Belt and One Road” University Strategic Alliance Ecological Sub-Alliance and “One Belt and One Road” Ecological Water Conservancy and New Energy Cooperation Alliance. There are programs for visiting scholars sent by the school, double degree programs for students to study in the United States, and Gannon President’s Scholarship for studying abroad. The school’s international exchanges are becoming increasingly active, and its degree of internationalization is constantly improving. In the course of 77 years of construction and development, the school has adhered to the school motto of "Encourage students with integrity, strive to achieve excellence", and formed an excellent school spirit of "diligence, rigor, pragmatism and innovation". Several generations of Agricultural University members have carried forward the Gannong spirit of “constant self-improvement and hard work” and have made remarkable achievements in talent training, scientific research, social services, and cultural inheritance and innovation, providing a solid foundation for economic construction and social development in Gansu and the western region. Strong intellectual support and talent protection have made important contributions to the development of higher agricultural education in our country.
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