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Xinjiang Agricultural University
China

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Official website: http://www.xjau.edu.cn
Tel：0991-8763007,0991-8762045,0991-8762714
Address：Lao Mancheng Campus: No. 311, Nongda East Road, Shayibak District, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region; Yaxin Campus: No. 888, Ju'an Road, Xishan New Town, Shayibak District, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region
Located at the foot of Yamalik Mountain in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and on the site of the ancient city of Gongning, Xinjiang Agricultural University is a university with agricultural science as its advantage and characteristics, jointly established by the People's Government of the Autonomous Region, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the State Forestry and Grassland Administration. The current party secretary is Professor Xie Shuqing, and the president is Professor Jiang Ping'an. The school was formerly known as the Bayi Agricultural College. It was founded by General Wang Zhen in 1952 on the basis of the Second Infantry School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army with the approval of Chairman Mao and the Central Military Commission. The school is affiliated to the Xinjiang Military Region and is the first new regular university founded by the Communist Party of China in Xinjiang after the founding of New China. The first dean was Tu Zhi (academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences), appointed by Comrades Wang Zhen, Wang Enmao and others; the first vice president Yang Jie (then deputy chief of staff of the Xinjiang Military Region) and the second vice president Meng Meisheng were appointed by Comrades Peng Dehuai and Xi Zhongxun. In 1958, it was transferred to the People's Government of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and renamed Xinjiang Bayi Agricultural College. In 1995, it was approved by the former State Education Commission and renamed Xinjiang Agricultural University. In 2006, it was rated as "excellent" in the undergraduate teaching work evaluation of the Ministry of Education. In 2012, it was selected as a university in the basic capacity building project of colleges and universities in central and western China. In 2014, it was jointly built by the People's Government of the Autonomous Region and the former State Forestry Administration. The school currently has four campuses, including Lao Mancheng, Yaxin, Lugang, and Tianger, 7 school-affiliated internship bases such as Xiejiagou Grassland Experiment Station and Hutubi Forage Experiment Demonstration Station, and 426 off-campus teaching internship bases. Among them, the Lao Mancheng campus (school headquarters) covers an area of about 1,500 acres, the Yaxin campus covers an area of about 500 acres, the Lugang campus covers an area of about 4,000 acres, and the Tianger campus (internship forest farm) covers an area of about 150,000 acres. The school is a national civilized campus, a national rural revitalization talent training quality school, a national conservation-oriented institution demonstration unit, the first batch of autonomous region green universities, and the first batch of autonomous region party building demonstration universities. One grassroots organization won the "National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization", and three grassroots organizations won the "Advanced Grassroots Party Organization" of the autonomous region and the education system. It was awarded 4 national-level "model branches" for party building work; 6 grassroots organizations were awarded the autonomous region-level and education system "five good" standardized and normalized party branch demonstration points, 3 autonomous region-level "benchmark colleges and departments" for party building work, 8 "model branches" for party building work and 6 "double-leader" teacher party branch secretary studios. Over the past 71 years since its establishment, the university has inherited and carried forward the fine traditions of Nanniwan, and cultivated the red gene with the main connotation of "the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and hard work; the fine tradition of unity and overcoming difficulties; the excellent quality of being down-to-earth and courageous to create; the patriotic feelings of settling and guarding the border, stabilizing and developing Xinjiang; loyalty to the party, and the red foundation of political school building". It has always followed the school-running policy of "combining theory with practice, and combining teaching with production", adhered to the school-running purpose of "setting and guarding the border to run a university, stabilizing and developing Xinjiang to cultivate talents", and abided by the school motto of "Mingde, Dedicating Aspirations, Encouraging Learning and Competing for Business". Adhering to the spirit of "self-reliance, hard work, truth-seeking and pragmatic, pioneering and enterprising", the university has formed a full-stage talent training system integrating kindergarten, primary school, middle school, undergraduate, master and doctoral degrees, and has embarked on a characteristic school-running road that closely combines production, learning, research and application, and has made positive contributions to promoting the modernization of my country's agriculture and rural areas and the development of higher agricultural education. The school currently has 24 colleges and 1 teaching department. There are 7 postdoctoral mobile stations, 8 first-level doctoral degree authorization points (water conservancy engineering, agricultural engineering, crop science, horticulture, animal husbandry, veterinary medicine, grassland science, and agricultural and forestry economic management), 19 first-level master's degree authorization points, 14 master's professional degree authorization points, and 69 undergraduate majors, distributed in 7 disciplines such as agriculture, science, engineering, economics, management, literature, and law. The school actively participates in the "Double 10,000 Plan" of the Ministry of Education. There are currently 15 national first-class undergraduate major construction points, 12 autonomous region first-class undergraduate major construction points, 7 national first-class courses, and 22 autonomous region first-class courses. Focusing on modern agriculture and animal husbandry, characteristic forestry and fruit industry, etc., there are 1 national key discipline (grassland science), 1 national key (cultivation) discipline (water conservancy and hydropower engineering), 3 key disciplines of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration (forest cultivation, forestry, agricultural resources and environment), 2 key cultivation disciplines of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration (ecology, fruit science), 1 discipline (water conservancy engineering) supported by the "14th Five-Year Plan" Academician Support Program of Higher Education Institutions of the Autonomous Region, 1 advantageous discipline of the "14th Five-Year Plan" of the Autonomous Region (animal husbandry), and 5 characteristic disciplines of the "14th Five-Year Plan" of the Autonomous Region (grass science, veterinary medicine, crop science, agricultural engineering, agricultural resources and environment). Two disciplines of plant and animal science and agricultural science are in the top 1% of the ESI global ranking. It has 39 provincial and ministerial research centers and key laboratories, including the Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center for Cotton, the Intelligent Agricultural Engineering Research Center, the Xinjiang Modern Dairy Engineering Technology Research Center, the Xinjiang Grassland Resources and Ecology Laboratory, and the Xinjiang Fruit Processing and Preservation Engineering Technology Research Center. Focusing on the "eight major industrial clusters" of the autonomous region, the university has established Xinjiang Jujube Industry Research Institute, Xinjiang Branch of the National Key Laboratory of Grass Seed Innovation and Grassland Agricultural Ecosystem, the Autonomous Region's "14th Five-Year Plan" Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base (Agriculture and Rural Development Research Center), the Autonomous Region's Research and Practice Base for Strengthening the Consciousness of the Chinese Nation Community, and the Autonomous Region Economic Public Opinion Research Center. High-level scientific research innovation platforms and new R&D platforms. The school currently has 1,666 faculty members and 1,089 full-time teachers, including 153 professors, 354 associate professors, and 509 with doctoral degrees. Among the teachers in the school, there are 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 foreign academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 5 people selected for the National Talent Special Program, 9 experts with special allowances from the State Council, 3 teachers of the "New Century Hundred Thousand Talents Project", 2 teachers of the "New Century Talent Support Program" of the Ministry of Education, 1 post scientist of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, 2 high-level talents returned from overseas studies, 1 postdoctoral international exchange talent, and 1 Hong Kong Scholar; there are 379 winners of the titles of autonomous region-level talents such as "Tianshan Leading Talents", Outstanding Contribution Experts, and Teaching Masters; there are 2 national advanced workers, 2 national excellent teachers, 1 "Huang Danian-style" national teaching team, 2 teaching masters of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, 14 teaching masters of the autonomous region, 12 teaching experts of the autonomous region, and 2 excellent educators of the autonomous region. The school currently has 35,143 students, including 377 doctoral students, 5,008 master students, 27,800 undergraduates, and 1,958 adult education students. Since its establishment, the school has formed a consensus on education of "solid foundation, broad scope, emphasis on practice, and innovation", promoted the formation of a talent training system for the comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics, and labor, and has trained more than 200,000 talents of various types for the society. The school closely focuses on serving the major needs of Xinjiang's economic and social development, relying on its own agricultural advantages to accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and release the innovation-driven efficiency. The "funnel-type full-sand sand removal technology" successfully solved the world's difficult sand removal problem of water conservancy projects; the "new type of dairy horse and meat horse breeding and industrialization demonstration" became the first new breed of dairy horse and meat horse with independent intellectual property rights in my country; the "Xinjiang fine-wool sheep" cultivated became the source of income increase and wealth for herdsmen in the north and south of Tianshan Mountains; the "Hongyou No. 2 watermelon new variety" has become the main melon variety in Xinjiang and is well-known throughout the country; "Research, development and demonstration of comprehensive supporting technologies for large-scale high-yield cotton" has created seven national firsts in yield, total yield, area, high-grade high-quality cotton, pest control, fertilizer utilization rate, and water saving. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, the school has undertaken 2,686 vertical scientific research projects, 15 major national and key scientific and technological plan projects (topics) such as the technology integration and demonstration of Xinjiang's advantageous and characteristic industries to improve quality and efficiency, and the cumulative funds in place are nearly 11.400 million yuan. In the past five years, the research funding has exceeded 100 million yuan for consecutive years, and in 2023, the research funding will exceed 300 million yuan. A total of 78 scientific and technological achievements awards at the provincial and ministerial levels or above have been obtained (including 12 first prizes for provincial and ministerial scientific and technological achievements). 27 new varieties have been approved, 777 patents (264 invention patents), 669 software copyrights have been authorized, and 74 local standards have been recognized. New varieties such as "Xuexiang" pear, new soybean No. 27, new agricultural cotton No. 1 and No. 4 have been bred, and the results have been transformed. In the process of running schools, the school focuses on the core point of comprehensively improving the ability to cultivate new agricultural talents, with talent training, professional layout, and serving the "three rural issues" as the focus of work, actively promoting the reform and innovation of new agricultural education, taking the lead in establishing the "Xinjiang New Agricultural Education Alliance", and exploring a new agricultural development path of "highlighting characteristics and taking root in practice", further promoting the integration of production, education, research and application, and realizing the coordinated development of government, business, schools and enterprises. The Xinjiang Rural Revitalization Research Institute was established, and 26 scientific and technological courtyards of the China Agricultural Technology Association and 8 scientific and technological courtyards of the three ministries were approved. It actively carried out agricultural science and technology research and technology promotion services, cultivated and expanded Xinjiang's characteristic and advantageous industries, and co-built modern wine industry colleges, modern horse industry colleges, cotton industry colleges, and smart agriculture modern industry colleges with local governments and leading enterprises in the industry. The training platform integrating practical teaching, scientific and technological research and development, production internships, training services and other multi-integrated internships and training platforms with cooperative units focused on solving the structural contradiction between talent training supply and industrial demand. The school transforms the advantages of talents, technology, and disciplines into specific actions to serve poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, explores the "1+4+N" science and technology service model, promotes the rapid transformation of practical agricultural technology and scientific and technological achievements in the front line of agricultural production, and continuously helps the high-quality development of agriculture and rural areas and the increase of farmers' income and wealth. The school won the "Organizational Innovation Award" for poverty alleviation in the autonomous region twice, one teacher won the "National Rural Revitalization Youth Pioneer", two teachers won the "Innovation Award" and "Endeavor Award" for poverty alleviation in the autonomous region, and one teacher won the "Advanced Individual" for rural revitalization in the autonomous region. The school has always adhered to expanding educational openness, actively expanding international science and technology education cooperation and exchanges, and accelerating the process of internationalization. We will continue to optimize the structure of international students, strengthen the enrollment of students with degree in advantageous disciplines such as agriculture, standardize the education management of international students, continuously improve the quality of training, and "spread China's voice and tell China's story well" through teaching and rich cultural activities, promote exchanges and learning between Chinese and foreign students, and cultivate international talents who know and are friendly to China. We have established cooperative relations with more than 70 universities and research institutions in more than 20 countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, Russia, and Pakistan. We have steadily promoted the international promotion of Chinese, and the Confucius Institute built in Pakistan has become one of the 100 model Confucius Institutes in the world. We have solidly promoted the "Belt and Road" education action, and the school's "Central Asia Research Center" has been approved as a country and regional research center by the Ministry of Education. We have established international cooperation platforms such as the "Xinjiang-Central Asia Modern Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation and Exchange Center" and the "China-Uzbekistan Scientific Research Center". We have jointly initiated the establishment of the "Silk Road Countries Agricultural College Alliance" with brother universities such as China Agricultural University, which has effectively promoted the common development of higher agricultural education in countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt. Entering the new era, Xinjiang Agricultural University will fully implement the Party’s education policy, take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its guide, firmly grasp the overall goal of Xinjiang work, actively practice the Populus euphratica spirit, take moral education as its foundation and strengthening agriculture as its mission, build a solid red foundation, highlight agricultural characteristics, forge ahead, keep moving forward, be brave in creation, and work hard to accelerate the construction of a first-class agricultural university and make its contribution to better building a beautiful Xinjiang in the process of Chinese-style modernization.