Located at the foot of Yamalik Mountain in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Agricultural University on the site of the ancient city of Gongning is a university 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, with agricultural science as its advantages and characteristics. Professor Xie Shuqing, Secretary of the Party Committee, and Professor Jiang Ping'an, President of the University.
The school, formerly known as Bayi Agricultural College, was established by General Wang Zhen in 1952 on the basis of the Second Infantry School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army with the consent of Chairman Mao and the Central Military Commission. The first president was Tu Zhi (member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences), appointed by Wang Zhen, Wang Enmao and other comrades; 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 Peng Dehuai and Xi Zhongxun. In 1958, it was transferred to the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and renamed Xinjiang Bayi Agricultural College. In 1995, with the approval of the former State Education Commission, it was renamed Xinjiang Agricultural University. In 2006, he was awarded "Excellent" by the Ministry of Education's evaluation of undergraduate teaching level. In 2012, it was selected as a university for the basic capacity building project of universities in the central and western regions. In 2014, it was jointly established by the People's Government of the Autonomous Region and the former State Forestry Administration. The school has four campuses, including Laomancheng, Yaxin, Lugang and Tianger, 7 school-affiliated practice bases and 426 off-campus teaching practice bases, including Xiejiagou Grassland Experimental Station and Hutubi Forage Experimental Demonstration Station. Among them, the Laomancheng 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 high-quality school for cultivating talents for rural revitalization, a national demonstration unit of energy-saving institutions, the first batch of green universities in the autonomous region, and the first batch of demonstration universities for party building in the autonomous region. One grassroots organization was awarded the "National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization", and three grassroots organizations were awarded the "Advanced Grassroots Party Organization" of the autonomous region and the education system. It was awarded 4 national "model branches" for party building work; 6 grassroots organizations have been awarded the "five good" standardized and standardized party branch demonstration sites at the autonomous region level and the education system, 3 "benchmark departments" for party building work in the autonomous region, 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 school has inherited and carried forward the fine tradition of Nanniwan, and cultivated the revolutionary spirit of "self-reliance and hard work; the fine tradition of uniting as one and overcoming difficulties; Down-to-earth, the courage to create excellent quality; the feelings of the family and country of reclaiming the border and stabilizing the Xinjiang and rejuvenating the frontier; Loyalty to the party and the red foundation of political school building" as the main connotation of the red gene, always follow the school-running policy of "linking theory with practice, teaching and production", adhere to the school-running tenet of "running a university in the border areas, stabilizing Xinjiang and rejuvenating Xinjiang and cultivating talents", abide by the school motto of "Mingde and dedication, encouragement and competition", and adhering to the spirit of "self-reliance, hard work, truth-seeking and pragmatism, pioneering and enterprising", and have formed a full-stage talent training system integrating kindergarten, primary school, middle school, undergraduate, master's and doctoral degree. It has embarked on a characteristic road of running schools that closely integrates production, education, research and application, and has made positive contributions to promoting the modernization of China's agriculture and rural areas and the development of higher agricultural education.
The school has 24 colleges and 1 teaching department. There are 7 postdoctoral mobile stations, 8 first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points (hydraulic engineering, agricultural engineering, crop science, horticulture, animal husbandry, veterinary medicine, grass science, agriculture and forestry economic management), 19 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, 14 master's professional degree authorization points, and 69 undergraduate majors, which are distributed in 7 disciplines such as agriculture, science, engineering, economics, management, literature, and law. The university actively participates in the "Double Ten Thousand Plan" of the Ministry of Education, and currently has 15 national first-class undergraduate majors, 12 autonomous region-level first-class undergraduate majors, 7 national first-class courses, and 46 autonomous region-level 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 (silviculture, forestry, agricultural resources and environment), 2 key cultivation disciplines (ecology and pomology) of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, 1 discipline (water conservancy engineering) supported by the academician support plan of the "14th Five-Year Plan" of colleges and universities of the autonomous region, and 1 advantageous discipline (animal husbandry) of the "14th Five-Year Plan" of the autonomous region. There are 5 characteristic disciplines in the "14th Five-Year Plan" of the autonomous region (grass science, veterinary science, crop science, agricultural engineering, agricultural resources and environment). Two disciplines, Plant and Animal Science and Agricultural Science, are in the top 1% of the ESI global rankings. It has 39 provincial and ministerial research centers and key laboratories, such as the Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Cotton Education, the Intelligent Agriculture 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, it has established high-level scientific research and innovation platforms and new research and development platforms such as the Xinjiang Jujube Industry Research Institute, the Xinjiang Branch of the National Key Laboratory of Grass Seed Innovation and Grassland Agricultural Ecosystem, the "14th Five-Year Plan" Humanities and Social Sciences Key Research Base (Agriculture and Rural Development Research Center) of the Autonomous Region, the Research and Practice Base for Strengthening the Community Consciousness of the Chinese Nation in the Autonomous Region, and the Economic Public Opinion Research Center of the Autonomous Region.
In the process of running a school, the school focuses on the core point of comprehensively improving the ability to cultivate new agricultural science talents, focuses on talent training, professional layout, and serving the "three rurals", actively promotes the reform and innovation of new agricultural science education, and takes the lead in establishing the "Xinjiang New Agricultural Science Education Alliance", and explores a new agricultural science development path of "highlighting characteristics and taking root in practice", so as to further promote the integration of production, education, research and application, and realize the coordinated development of government, industry, school, and enterprise. The establishment of the "Xinjiang Rural Revitalization Research Institute", approved 26 science and technology institutes of the China Agricultural Technology Association, 8 science and technology institutes of the three ministries and commissions, actively carried out agriculture-related science and technology research and science and technology promotion services, cultivated and strengthened Xinjiang's characteristic advantageous industries, and built a modern wine industry college, a modern horse industry college, a cotton industry college, and a smart agriculture modern industry college with local governments and industry leading enterprises, and cooperated units to build an internship and training platform integrating practical teaching, scientific and technological research and development, production practice, training services, etc. Efforts should be made to solve the structural contradiction between the supply of talent training and the demand of the industry. The school transforms the advantages of talents, science and 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 continues to help the high-quality development of agriculture and rural areas, and increase farmers' income and prosperity. The school has won the "Organizational Innovation Award" for poverty alleviation in the Autonomous Region twice, 1 teacher won the "National Rural Revitalization Youth Pioneer", 2 teachers won the "Innovation Award" and "Endeavor Award" for poverty alleviation in the Autonomous Region, and 1 teacher won the "Advanced Individual" for rural revitalization in the Autonomous Region.
The university has always adhered to the principle of expanding the opening up of education, actively expanding international cooperation and exchanges in science and technology education, and accelerating the process of internationalization. We will continue to optimize the structure of international students, strengthen the enrollment of students with academic qualifications in agriculture-related and other advantageous disciplines, standardize the education and management of international students, continuously improve the quality of training, and promote the exchange and learning of Chinese and foreign students through teaching and rich cultural activities to "spread the voice of China and tell the story of China", and cultivate international talents who know China and are friendly to China. It has established cooperative relations with more than 70 universities and research institutions in more than 20 countries and regions such as United States, Canada, Russia and Pakistan. The Confucius Institute established in Pakistan has become one of the 100 model Confucius Institutes in the world. Solidly promote the "Belt and Road" education initiative, and the "Central Asia Research Center" of the university has been approved as the National and Regional Research Center of the Ministry of Education. International cooperation platforms such as the "Xinjiang-Central Asia Modern Agricultural Science Innovation and Exchange Center" and the "China-Uzbekistan Scientific Research Center" have been established. The establishment of the "Alliance of Agricultural Colleges and Universities of Countries along the Silk Road" was jointly initiated with China Agricultural University and other sister universities, which has strongly 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 the guide, firmly grasp the general goal of Xinjiang's work, actively practice the spirit of Populus euphratica, take the cultivation of virtue as the foundation, and the responsibility of strengthening agriculture and rejuvenating agriculture, build a solid red foundation, highlight agricultural characteristics, work hard, continue to move forward, have the courage to create, work hard, accelerate the construction of a first-class agricultural university, and make contributions to the better construction of a beautiful Xinjiang in the process of Chinese-style modernization.
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