Anhui Agricultural University

Anhui Agricultural University (AHAU) is a provincial public university in Hefei, Anhui, China, whose teaching and research centre on agriculture, forestry and the life sciences.安徽农业大学（Anhui Agricultural University，简称 AHAU）是位于中国安徽省合肥市的省属公办大学，教学与科研以农学、林学与生命科学为中心。

The university is administered by the Anhui Provincial People's Government and is jointly built by that government, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.学校由安徽省人民政府主管，并由安徽省人民政府、农业农村部与国家林业和草原局共同建设。

Its lineage runs from the college of agriculture created inside Anhui University in 1935, through the independent Anhui Agricultural College of 1954, to its present name in 1995, and it placed in the 601-700 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.学校源流可追溯至 1935 年安徽大学设立的农学院，1954 年独立建院为安徽农学院，1995 年更名为安徽农业大学，并在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 601-700 名区间。

History

• In 1921 a group of Anhui scholars that included Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi, Gao Yihan and Tao Xingzhi campaigned for a modern university in the province, but warlord fighting and the Northern Expedition repeatedly stalled the project.1921 年，陈独秀、胡适、高一涵、陶行知等皖籍学者倡议筹建安徽的现代大学，但军阀混战与北伐战争使筹建工作屡次受阻。
• In February 1928 the provincial government opened preparatory classes at the former Anhui Law and Politics School in Anqing, enrolling 142 students into separate natural science and social science streams, and teaching began on 10 April 1928, a date the university still treats as its founding.1928 年 2 月，安徽省政府在安庆原安徽法政专门学校校址开办预科，招收 142 名学生并分为自然科学与社会科学两班，当年 4 月 10 日正式开学，这一天被学校视为建校纪念日。
• The institution was renamed Anhui Provincial University in 1929 and Anhui Provincial Anhui University in 1930, adding a college of science with departments of mathematics, chemistry and physics, and a department of biology in 1930.学校于 1929 年改称安徽省立大学，1930 年再改称安徽省立安徽大学，其间设立理学院，下设数学、化学、物理三系，并于 1930 年增设生物系。
• In 1934 the provincial government ordered the law faculty closed and its budget transferred to a new college of agriculture, and the university's president Fu Tong engaged the forestry scientist Li Shunqing to organise it.1934 年，安徽省政府训令撤销法学院，将其经费改用于筹设农学院，校长傅铜聘请林学家李顺卿负责筹备。
• The College of Agriculture opened in 1935 with departments of agronomy and agricultural economics under Li Shunqing as its first dean, later added a forestry department, and established teaching and experimental farms in Anqing and Huoqiu.农学院于 1935 年正式成立，设农艺、农业经济两系，李顺卿出任首任院长，其后增设林学系，并在安庆、霍邱等地建立教学试验农场。
• Japanese forces took Anqing in June 1938, most staff had already left, and the provincial university, which had awarded degrees to 556 graduates in six cohorts between 1928 and 1937, was formally closed in 1939.1938 年 6 月日军攻占安庆，教职员大多已离校，这所省立大学在 1928 年至 1937 年间共培养六届 556 名本科毕业生，最终于 1939 年正式停办。
• While Anhui University was closed, the provincial government founded the Anhui Temporary Political College in Jinzhai in 1941, renamed it the Provincial Anhui College in 1943, and that college graduated 964 students in seven cohorts as the province's only wartime higher institution.安徽大学停办期间，安徽省政府于 1941 年在金寨创办安徽临时政治学院，1943 年定名为省立安徽学院，该院作为战时安徽唯一的高等学校，共培养七届 964 名毕业生。
• In January 1946 the national government restored the university as the National Anhui University in Anqing, with colleges of arts, law, science and agriculture and 13 departments, and the writer Zhu Guangqian chaired its preparatory committee with Tao Yin as secretary.1946 年 1 月，国民政府恢复安徽大学并改为国立，校址仍在安庆，设文、法、理、农四院共 13 个系，由学者朱光潜任筹备委员会主任委员、陶因任秘书。
• The agriculture college of the restored university comprised agronomy, forestry and horticulture, and in 1947 the agronomy department of Anhui College and the Dadukou farm near Anqing were merged into it.复校后的农学院设农艺、森林、园艺三系，1947 年安徽学院农艺系与安庆大渡口农场一并并入该院。
• Flooding on the Yangtze submerged the Anqing campus in July 1949, and in December 1949 the university moved to Wuhu, where it merged with the Provincial Anhui College to form a new Anhui University with 12 undergraduate departments.1949 年 7 月长江洪水淹没安庆校园，同年 12 月学校迁往芜湖，与省立安徽学院合并组成新的安徽大学，设 12 个本科系。
• Under the national restructuring of higher education, the civil engineering and art departments were transferred to Nanjing University in 1950, while Fudan University's tea programme and the sericulture programmes of Nanjing University and Jinling University moved into the Wuhu campus in 1952.在全国院系调整中，学校土木工程系与艺术系于 1950 年并入南京大学，复旦大学茶叶专修科以及南京大学、金陵大学的蚕桑专修科则于 1952 年并入芜湖校区。
• On 20 October 1953 the Ministry of Higher Education abolished the name Anhui University and divided its arts, science and agriculture faculties into an agricultural college and a normal college.1953 年 10 月 20 日，中央人民政府高等教育部决定取消安徽大学校名，将其文、理、农三院整合为农学院与师范学院。
• The State Council confirmed the separation on 10 February 1954, Anhui Agricultural College moved from Wuhu to Hefei in April 1954, and the agricultural and normal colleges formally became separate institutions in August of that year.1954 年 2 月 10 日政务院正式确认分设，安徽农学院于当年 4 月由芜湖迁往合肥，农学院与师范学院于同年 8 月正式分立。
• The 1959 separation of the attached Hefei Agricultural School, which merged with the Anhui Sericulture School and the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary School, left the college with new departments of forestry engineering, horticulture and economic forestry.1959 年，附设的合肥农业专科学校脱离农学院，与安徽蚕桑专科学校、畜牧兽医专科学校合并，农学院则增设森工、园艺、经济林等系所。
• By 1960 the college had grown to about 1,900 students, but the Cultural Revolution halted classes in May 1966 and the provincial revolutionary committee ordered the college out of Hefei on 25 November 1968.至 1960 年学校在校生约 1,900 人，但文化大革命使学校于 1966 年 5 月停课，1968 年 11 月 25 日安徽省革命委员会又决定学校迁出合肥。
• In December 1968 the college was split into three rural campuses at Ziluhu in Suxian, at Chuxian and at Fengyang, where the animal husbandry and veterinary department merged with the Fengyang Agricultural School.1968 年 12 月，学校被拆分为宿县紫芦湖、滁县与凤阳三个农村校区，畜牧兽医系在凤阳与凤阳农业专科学校合并。
• Between 1970 and 1977 the college enrolled 2,731 worker, peasant and soldier students in six cohorts, selected by recommendation rather than examination after the 1970 restoration of university admissions.1970 年恢复招生后，学校废除考试、实行群众推荐，1970 年至 1977 年间共招收六届 2,731 名工农兵学员。
• Seven cadres led by deputy party secretary Zhang Jingwu petitioned Beijing for the return of the Hefei campus, Deng Xiaoping approved the request on 26 June 1978, and the college moved back to Hefei in October 1978.党委副书记张靖武等七名干部联名上书中央请求归还合肥校舍，邓小平于 1978 年 6 月 26 日批复同意，学校遂于当年 10 月回迁合肥。
• The Fengyang branch did not return, becoming the Anhui Agricultural Technology Normal College in 1985, while the Huaibei branch at Xinmaqiao in Guzhen County became the Anhui Agricultural Cadre School in 1982.凤阳分院未随校回迁，于 1985 年更名为安徽农业技术师范学院，固镇新马桥的淮北分院则于 1982 年更名为安徽省农业干部学校。
• In 1981 the college was named among the first batch of institutions authorised to confer master's degrees, together with Hefei University of Technology and Huainan Mining Institute.1981 年，学校与合肥工业大学、淮南矿业学院等一同成为首批硕士学位授予单位。
• The State Education Commission approved the change of name to Anhui Agricultural University on 27 March 1995, and in 1998 the approval of tea science as a doctoral programme made the university a doctoral degree-granting institution.1995 年 3 月 27 日，国家教委批准学校更名为安徽农业大学，1998 年茶学专业获批博士学位授予权，学校由此成为博士学位授予单位。
• In December 2011 the Ministry of Agriculture and the provincial government agreed to co-build the university, the State Forestry Administration joined the arrangement in April 2014, and in October 2014 the university entered the first batch of the national programme for training outstanding agricultural and forestry talent.2011 年 12 月农业部与安徽省人民政府签署共建协议，2014 年 4 月国家林业局加入共建，同年 10 月学校入选首批卓越农林人才教育培养计划试点高校。

Academics

• The university is organised into 20 colleges and schools and offers 60 undergraduate programmes, covering agronomy, forestry, engineering, science, economics, management, literature and law.学校实行校、院两级管理，下设 20 个学院（部），开设 60 个本科招生专业，覆盖农学、林学、工学、理学、经济学、管理学、文学与法学等门类。
• Its postgraduate system comprises seven first-level postdoctoral research stations, 11 first-level doctoral programmes, 27 first-level master's programmes, one second-level master's programme and 19 professional master's categories.学校的研究生培养体系包括 7 个一级学科博士后科研流动站、11 个一级学科博士学位授权点、27 个一级学科硕士学位授权点、1 个二级学科硕士点与 19 个硕士专业学位类别。
• As of May 2026 the university enrolled 29,704 full-time students, among them 206 international students and 7,027 master's and doctoral candidates, and employed 2,384 staff, of whom 1,497 were full-time teachers and 63.7 per cent held the rank of associate professor or above.截至 2026 年 5 月，学校有全日制在校生 29,704 人，其中含国际学生 206 人、硕士与博士研究生 7,027 人，在职教职工 2,384 人，专任教师 1,497 人，副高级以上职称占比 63.7%。
• In March 2025 the Clarivate Essential Science Indicators data placed the university's agricultural sciences in the global top one per mille, making it the tenth institution in China and the second provincial university in Anhui to reach that level in an agricultural field.2025 年 3 月，科睿唯安基本科学指标数据库显示学校农业科学进入全球前 1‰，成为全国第 10 所、安徽省属高校第 2 所进入该行列的农林院校。
• On 14 May 2026 plant and animal science became the university's second discipline in the global top one per mille, a position that ties it first among Chinese non-Double First-Class agricultural and forestry universities and among Anhui provincial universities.2026 年 5 月 14 日，植物与动物科学成为学校第二个进入全球前 1‰ 的学科，使学校在该指标上并列全国非双一流农林高校与安徽省属高校第一。
• A further seven disciplines, including environment and ecology, chemistry, engineering, materials science and biology and biochemistry, are ranked in the global top one per cent by the same index.此外，环境与生态学、化学、工程科学、材料科学、生物学与生物化学等 7 个学科在同一指标中位居全球前 1%。
• The State Key Laboratory of Tea Plant Germplasm Innovation and Utilisation, hosted by the university, was the first national-level research platform created in Chinese tea science.学校承建的茶树种质创新与资源利用全国重点实验室，是中国茶学界第一个国家级科研平台。
• Research infrastructure also includes a national-local joint engineering laboratory for crop stress resistance breeding and disaster mitigation and an international science and technology cooperation base for agricultural and forestry technology and biological resource development.科研平台还包括作物抗逆育种与减灾国家地方联合工程实验室、农林科学技术与生物资源开发国际科技合作基地。
• Two Ministry of Education platforms, an international joint laboratory for tea chemistry and health and an engineering research centre for fungal biotechnology, sit alongside more than 60 research platforms of provincial and national level.学校另建有教育部茶叶化学与健康国际合作联合实验室与真菌生物技术教育部工程研究中心，各级科研平台合计超过 60 个。
• In provincial and national discipline planning the university holds one national key discipline under cultivation, 19 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, four Anhui peak disciplines and four peak cultivation disciplines.在学科布局上，学校建有国家重点（培育）学科 1 个、省部级重点学科 19 个、安徽省高峰学科 4 个与高峰培育学科 4 个。
• Undergraduate teaching is supported by 17 national first-class major construction points, 17 provincial first-class points, five national characteristic specialties and two national comprehensive reform pilot majors.本科教学方面，学校获批国家级一流本科专业建设点 17 个、省级一流本科专业建设点 17 个、国家级特色专业 5 个与国家级专业综合改革试点专业 2 个。
• The university has built 25 national first-class courses and two national teaching teams, and its staff have won four second prizes of the National Teaching Achievement Award in recent years.学校建成国家级一流课程 25 门、国家级教学团队 2 个，近年来主持获得 4 项国家级教学成果奖二等奖。
• Tea science traces its presence at the university to the 1952 transfer of Fudan University's tea speciality, and the subject now has its own college and a national key laboratory.茶学在该校的传承始于 1952 年复旦大学茶叶专修科的并入，如今该学科拥有独立的学院与全国重点实验室。
• The university operates a college of continuing education and a college of Marxism alongside its agricultural, engineering, science and humanities faculties, and it awards degrees at bachelor, master's and doctoral level.除农学、工学、理学与人文社科各学院外，学校还设有继续教育学院与马克思主义学院，并具备学士、硕士、博士完整的学位授予体系。
• Field stations support the applied side of the curriculum, and the university has run teaching and demonstration points in more than 40 counties of Anhui, an approach its staff call the Dabie Mountains Road.学校的实践教学依托校内外试验站点，并在安徽 40 多个县市设立教学与示范点，这一做法被概括为「大别山道路」。

Campus

• The main campus occupies an urban site in Shushan District of central Hefei, south of the Nanfei River, bounded by the First Ring Road and Changjiang West Road on its western and southern edges and by Changfeng South Road and Huoshan Road on its eastern and northern sides.主校区位于合肥市蜀山区市区、南淝河以南，西、南两侧分别接一环路与长江西路，东、北两侧分别与长丰南路和霍山路相邻。
• The main teaching building, known as Qinzheng Lou, the second teaching building and the south gate date from the founding period, and in June 2012 the group was listed in the sixth batch of Anhui provincial cultural relics protection units.主教学楼勤政楼、第二教学楼与南大门均建于建校初期，2012 年 6 月这一组建筑以「安徽农业大学主教学楼」之名列入第六批安徽省文物保护单位。
• Qinzheng Lou, which still houses the university's party and administrative leadership, combines Hui-style vernacular architecture with Soviet architectural conventions and reflects the mainstream taste of the early People's Republic.勤政楼至今仍是学校党政领导的办公场所，建筑融合徽派风格与苏联建筑样式，反映了中华人民共和国初期的主流审美。
• Hefei Metro Line 2 serves the campus through Annongda station, whose name is the Chinese abbreviation of the university and which links the site to the city centre.合肥轨道交通 2 号线设有安农大站，站名取自学校的中文简称，把校区与市中心连接起来。
• Tree-lined avenues, a plum garden and a lotus pond are among the features the university cites when describing the setting of its teaching buildings.校园内以梧桐大道、梅苑与荷花池等景致著称，学校在介绍教学区环境时常提及这些去处。
• The college's first experimental farms, established at Anqing and Huoqiu in the 1930s, set a pattern of field teaching that continues in the university's present agricultural stations.农学院早在 20 世纪 30 年代就在安庆、霍邱设立试验农场，这种田间教学模式延续至今的各类农业试验站。
• The return to Hefei in 1978 restored a campus that had been handed over a decade earlier, after Deng Xiaoping endorsed the petition of seven college cadres on 26 June 1978.1978 年回迁合肥，使学校重新获得十年前被交出的校园，此前邓小平于 1978 年 6 月 26 日批准了七名学校干部的联名上书。
• The campus sits inside the built-up area of a provincial capital of more than nine million people, and its gates open directly onto two of the city's main arterial roads.校区位于人口逾九百万的省会建成区内，校门直接通向城市两条主干道。

Reputation

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities the university placed in the 601-700 band, its strongest showing in the ShanghaiRanking global table.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，学校位列第 601-700 名区间，这是其在软科全球榜单上的最好表现。
• The university did not enter the 2027 QS World University Rankings and did not enter the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.学校未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名，也未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• In the 2026-2027 U.S. News global university ranking the university was placed 1,210th in the world.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中，学校位列全球第 1,210 名。
• The ShanghaiRanking China University Ranking put the university 143rd in 2026, after 148th in 2025 and 153rd in 2024, a steady rise over three editions.在软科中国大学排名（主榜）中，学校 2026 年位列第 143 名，2025 年为第 148 名，2024 年为第 153 名，三年间稳步上升。
• Its two top one per mille disciplines give the university a joint first place among Chinese agricultural and forestry universities outside the Double First-Class list and among Anhui provincial universities.两个全球前 1‰ 学科，使学校在全国非双一流农林高校与安徽省属高校中均并列第一。
• The China University Alumni Association ranking places the university between 15th and 17th among Chinese agricultural and forestry universities and rates it a four-star China High-Level University.在校友会中国大学排行榜中，学校位居中国农林类大学第 15 至 17 名之间，并获评四星级「中国高水平大学」。
• Tea science, landscape architecture and horticulture, applied bioscience and seed science are described as the university's long-standing strengths within Chinese agricultural education.茶学、园林园艺、应用生物科学与种子科学被视为学校在中国农林教育中长期积累的优势学科。
• The university is one of the Anhui institutions designated for the provincial characteristic high-level university programme and for the national Double First-Class cultivation scheme, according to its own profile.据学校自述，其为安徽省「特色高水平大学」建设高校与「双一流」培育建设高校之一。
• Its research output is concentrated in crop science, tea science, animal husbandry and plant protection, fields in which it holds the majority of its national and provincial platforms.学校的科研产出集中于作物学、茶学、畜牧学与植物保护等领域，其国家级与省级平台大多分布在这些方向上。

Student life

• The university motto is Unity, Diligence, Truth-seeking and Innovation, rendered in Chinese as 团结、勤奋、求实、创新 and displayed at university ceremonies.学校校训为「团结、勤奋、求实、创新」，在各类典礼与校园标识中广泛使用。
• Li Shunqing, the first dean of the college of agriculture, set the founding mission as cultivating talent, improving agriculture and relieving rural poverty.农学院首任院长李顺卿提出「造就人才，改良农业，救济农村」的创校使命。
• The same dean framed the institutional goal as implementing agricultural education, researching agricultural and forestry science and conducting agricultural extension and rural surveys.他还把建校目标表述为「实施农业教育，研究农林科学，实施农业推广与农村调查」。
• University day falls on 20 October, the date in 1953 on which the Ministry of Higher Education abolished the Anhui University name and created the agricultural and normal colleges.学校校庆日为每年 10 月 20 日，纪念 1953 年高等教育部取消安徽大学校名并分设农学院与师范学院。
• The opening ceremony of the provincial university on 10 April 1928 is still treated as the birth date of the institution by both Anhui Agricultural University and Anhui Normal University.1928 年 4 月 10 日省立安徽大学的开学典礼，至今仍被安徽农业大学与安徽师范大学共同视为学校的诞生日。
• The Dabie Mountains Road spirit comes from the teaching points the university ran in more than 40 counties, where staff trained rural technicians and tested crop varieties with farmers.「大别山道路」精神源于学校在 40 多个县市设立的教学点，师生在那里培训农村技术员并与农户共同试验作物品种。
• Of the 29,704 full-time students recorded in May 2026, 7,027 were postgraduate researchers, roughly a quarter of the student body.2026 年 5 月统计的 29,704 名全日制学生中，研究生 7,027 人，约占学生总数的四分之一。
• The 206 international students on campus in 2026 study mainly in agricultural and life science programmes, and the university's alumni charter defines anyone who studied, worked or taught there as an alumnus.2026 年在校国际学生 206 人，主要就读于农业与生命科学类专业，学校校友会章程则把在此学习、工作或任教过的人士均认定为校友。

Notable people

• Li Shunqing, a forestry scientist trained in the United States, organised the college of agriculture in 1934 and served as its first dean from 1935.李顺卿是留学美国的林学家，1934 年受命筹建农学院，1935 年起出任首任院长。
• Zhu Guangqian, the aesthetician and translator, chaired the preparatory committee that restored the National Anhui University in 1946, with the economist Tao Yin as its secretary.美学家、翻译家朱光潜主持了 1946 年国立安徽大学复校筹备委员会，经济学家陶因任秘书。
• Feng Zigang, Yan Lunze, Chen Zhaoliu, Xu Yuekun and Shi Hualin were among the agricultural and forestry specialists recruited to teach in the college's early years.冯紫岗、颜纶泽、陈兆骝、徐曰琨、施华麐等知名农林学家，是农学院早期聘任的教师。
• Liu Wendian, who led the arts faculty of the provincial university in 1928, is counted among the scholars who taught at the institution before its closure.1928 年主持省立安徽大学文法学院的刘文典，被视为学校停办前在此执教的学者之一。
• Li Jiayang, a plant geneticist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is listed by the university among its most prominent science alumni.植物遗传学家、中国科学院院士李家洋，被学校列为最杰出的科学界校友之一。
• Fang Jingyun, an ecologist and academician who directed the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is another of the university's listed alumni.生态学家、中国科学院院士、曾任中国科学院植物研究所所长的方精云，也是学校列名的校友。
• Zhang Shouguang and Jiang Zehui, both forest scientists who led the Chinese Academy of Forestry, appear on the university's roll of distinguished graduates.曾主持中国林业科学研究院工作的林学家张守攻与江泽慧，均列于学校的杰出校友名录。
• Lü Yonglong, a researcher in environmental science who served as deputy director of the Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, graduated from the university.环境科学研究者、曾任中国科学院生态环境研究中心副主任的吕永龙，毕业于该校。
• Song Lihua, who built the biotechnology company Anke Bio into a listed firm, is among the university's entrepreneurial alumni.将生物技术企业安科生物发展为上市公司的宋礼华，是学校创业类校友的代表。
• Xu Youfang, a former party secretary of Heilongjiang, and Qian Keming, a former vice minister of commerce, are the best-known of the university's graduates in national politics.曾任中共黑龙江省委书记的徐有芳与曾任商务部副部长的钱克明，是学校校友中最为知名的省部级官员。
• Zhang Shuguang and Sun Yong, both former vice governors of Anhui, and the provincial political advisers Zhang Xueping, Xia Tao, Shao Guohe and Han Xiancong also studied at the university.曾任安徽省副省长的张曙光、孙勇，以及张学平、夏涛、邵国荷、韩先聪等安徽省政协领导，也曾在该校学习。
• Local officials including Fang Xiping of Huainan, Wang Yingchun of Bengbu, Kong Xiaohong of Xuancheng and Ye Luzhong of Lu'an are counted among graduates who remained in Anhui public service.淮南的方西屏、蚌埠的汪莹纯、宣城的孔晓宏、六安的叶露中等地方官员，均属留在安徽公共部门任职的校友。