Henan Agricultural University

Henan Agricultural University is a provincial public university in Zhengzhou, Henan, China, and one of the country's oldest institutions of agricultural higher education, with roots going back to a Qing-era school founded in 1902.河南农业大学是位于中国河南郑州的一所省属公立大学，也是中国历史最悠久的农业高等院校之一，其渊源可追溯至1902年创办的一所清末学堂。

It was founded as Henan Public Agricultural Special School in 1912, moved from Kaifeng to Zhengzhou in 1957 and took its present name in December 1984.学校于1912年以河南公立农业专门学校之名创办，1957年由开封迁至郑州，1984年12月改称现名。

It is a comprehensive agricultural university with 20 colleges, more than 4,800 mu of campus and about 1,700 teaching staff, and it was the first provincial agricultural university in China's province-ministry co-construction programme.学校是一所综合性农业大学，设有20个学院，校园占地4800余亩，有教职工约1700人，并且是全国第一所省部共建的省属农业大学。

History

In 1902 the late Qing government created Henan Grand School in Kaifeng, then the provincial capital, and this institution is regarded as the beginning of modern higher education in Henan. The school was part of the late Qing New Policies, which encouraged provinces to open modern schools.1902年，晚清政府在当时的省会开封创办河南大学堂，这所学校被视为河南近现代高等教育的开端，也是学校校史叙事的最早源头。该校是清末新政的一部分，新政鼓励各省兴办新式学堂。
In 1903 the school was renamed Henan Higher School, part of the Qing dynasty's effort to replace the old examination curriculum with modern subjects such as law, economics and science.1903年，学堂更名为河南高等学堂，这是清末以法政、经济、理科等近代学科取代旧科举课程的教育改革的一部分。
In early 1912, after the fall of the Qing dynasty, it was renamed Henan Higher School under Republican terminology, marking the transition from the imperial system to the republic. The name remained in use until the 1912 conversion into an agricultural school.1912年初清朝覆亡后，学校按民国用语改称河南高等学校，标志着从帝制教育体系向民国教育体系的过渡。这一校名一直使用到1912年改办农业专门学校。
In November 1912 the institution was converted into Henan Public Agricultural Special School, which began a century of continuous agricultural higher education in the province.1912年11月，学校改办为河南公立农业专门学校，河南高等农业教育自此发轫，并在此后百余年间延续不断。
In 1927 the agricultural school merged with Henan Public Law and Politics Special School and Zhongzhou University to form National Fifth Sun Yat-sen University in Kaifeng. The new university was named after Sun Yat-sen, who had died in 1925.1927年，河南公立农业专门学校与河南公立法政专门学校、中州大学合并，在开封组建国立第五中山大学。这所新大学以1925年逝世的孙中山命名。
Its agricultural section became the agriculture department of the new university, one of the faculties through which the province trained technical specialists during the Republican era. It inherited the agricultural school's staff, students and trial fields.该校的农业部分成为新大学的农科，是民国时期河南培养农业技术人才的学院之一。农科继承了原农业专门学校的师生和试验田。
In 1930 Sun Yat-sen University was renamed Henan University, and the agriculture department became the Henan University College of Agriculture. Henan University was then the province's leading comprehensive university.1930年，中山大学改称河南大学，农科随之改称河南大学农学院，成为这所综合性大学的学院之一。河南大学当时是全省首屈一指的综合性大学。
The college later passed through a provincial phase as the Henan Provincial University College of Agriculture and a national phase as the National Henan University College of Agriculture.此后农学院先后经历省立河南大学农学院和国立河南大学农学院两个阶段，校名随隶属关系多次变化。
In 1952, during the national departmental readjustment, the College of Agriculture separated from Henan University and became an independent Henan Agricultural College. The adjustment divided comprehensive universities into specialised colleges along Soviet lines.1952年全国院系调整中，农学院从河南大学分出独立建院，成为河南农学院，开始单独招收农科学生。这次调整依照苏联模式把综合性大学拆分为专门学院。
In 1957 the college moved from Kaifeng to Zhengzhou, the provincial capital since 1954, and it has remained based in the city ever since. The move followed the provincial government's relocation from Kaifeng to Zhengzhou.1957年，学院由开封迁至1954年起成为省会的郑州，此后一直以此地为校址，办学重心转向新的省会。此次搬迁与河南省会由开封迁往郑州同步。
In December 1984 Henan Agricultural College was renamed Henan Agricultural University, the name it still uses today. The new name reflected its growth from a single agricultural college into a multi-disciplinary university.1984年12月，河南农学院更名为河南农业大学，这一校名沿用至今，学校也由单科性学院转向多科性大学。新校名反映出学校已从单科性农学院发展为多科性大学。
In November 2009 the university became the first provincial agricultural university in China to be built jointly by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Henan provincial government. The designation brought national funding and policy support to a provincial institution.2009年11月，学校成为全国第一所由农业部与河南省人民政府共建的省属农业大学，进入省部共建高校行列。这一身份为这所省属高校带来了国家层面的经费和政策支持。
Zhang Gaiping, a veterinary immunologist and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, served as president from September 2013 to April 2021. His research focused on rapid diagnostic tests for animal viral diseases.动物免疫学家、中国工程院院士张改平于2013年9月至2021年4月担任校长，主持学校工作近八年。他的研究重点是动物病毒病的快速诊断技术。
In April 2021 Jie Xiaolei succeeded Zhang Gaiping as president and led the university until January 2024.2021年4月，介晓磊接替张改平出任校长，任职至2024年1月，任内推动学校与企业的产业合作。
Also in April 2021 the university and Muyuan Group established a joint industrial research institute, with chairman Qin Yinglin and president Zhang Gaiping signing the agreement. Muyuan was founded in 1992 and grew into one of China's largest pig producers.同样在2021年4月，学校与牧原集团共建农大牧原联合产业研究院，由牧原董事长秦英林与校长张改平签署合作协议。牧原成立于1992年，后来成长为中国最大的生猪养殖企业之一。
The partnership was announced with the aim of solving prominent industry problems, supporting Muyuan's ambition to become a world-class enterprise and helping the university build a world-class agricultural university.该合作提出着力解决产业存在的突出问题，支撑牧原集团成为世界一流企业，并支持河南农业大学创建世界一流农业大学。
In April 2024 Zhou Wei became president, succeeding Jie Xiaolei, who had left the post in January of that year. Zhou Wei is an agricultural scientist whose work concerns soil fertility and crop nutrition.2024年4月，周卫接替当年1月离任的介晓磊出任校长，学校行政班子完成新一轮交接。周卫是农业科学家，长期研究土壤肥力与作物营养。
The university traces its direct institutional origin to the 1912 agricultural school, while presenting the 1902 Henan Grand School as an earlier root of higher education in the province. The 1902 school and the 1912 agricultural school are both treated as part of its heritage.学校把1912年的农业专门学校视为直接的办学起点，同时将1902年的河南大学堂列为河南高等教育的更早源头。1902年的学堂和1912年的农业学校都被视为其校史遗产。

Academics

The university is organised into 20 colleges and covers ten disciplinary fields: agriculture, engineering, management, economics, law, science, arts, education, medicine and musical art.学校设有20个学院，学科覆盖农学、工学、管理学、经济学、法学、理学、文学、教育学、医学和艺术学十个门类。
Its agricultural colleges include the College of Agronomy and the College of Tobacco Science, the latter a dedicated tobacco college that is unusual among Chinese agricultural universities.农科类学院包括农学院和烟草学院，后者是专门的烟草学院，在中国农业高校中较为少见，也是学校最具特色的院系之一。
Animal science is taught through the College of Veterinary Medicine and the College of Animal Science and Technology, which train veterinarians and livestock specialists.动物学科由动物医学院和动物科技学院承担，分别培养兽医和畜牧科技人才，与河南的养殖业紧密对接。
Horticulture, plant protection, food science and resources and environment each have their own college within the university. The resources and environment college works on soil, water and pollution control.园艺学、植物保护、食品科学以及资源与环境四个领域各设有独立学院，覆盖从种植到加工、从土壤到环境的链条。资源与环境学院围绕土壤、水资源和污染治理开展研究。
Engineering and science are represented by mechanical and electrical engineering, information and management science, landscape architecture and art, and science.工科与理科由机电工程学院、信息与管理科学学院、风景园林与艺术学院和理学院承担。
The humanities and social sciences include economics and management, humanities and law, foreign languages, and physical education.人文社会科学方面设有经济与管理学院、文法学院、外国语学院和体育学院，为农科学生提供通识与人文课程。
Life sciences, international education, continuing education, rural development and management, and Marxism make up the remaining colleges.其余学院包括生命科学学院、国际教育学院、继续教育学院、农村发展与管理学院和马克思主义学院。
The university offers five first-level doctoral programmes, 28 doctoral points and six postdoctoral research stations.学校拥有5个一级学科博士点、28个博士点和6个博士后科研流动站，形成了完整的农科高层次人才培养体系。
It also offers 18 first-level master's programmes, 73 master's programmes and 54 degree courses. The master's programmes also include professional degrees in agriculture and engineering.学校还拥有18个一级学科硕士点、73个硕士点和54个学位授权专业，硕士培养覆盖农、工、理、管等多个门类。硕士培养还包括农业和工程领域的专业学位。
Thirty-four disciplines are designated provincial key disciplines, forming the backbone of its graduate training and research. They span crop science, forestry, animal science, agricultural engineering and food science.学校有34个省级重点学科，构成其研究生培养和科学研究的骨干，也是申报国家级平台的基础。这些学科覆盖作物学、林学、畜牧学、农业工程和食品科学。
A national wheat engineering technology research centre coordinates breeding, cultivation and processing research for one of China's most important crops.国家小麦工程技术研究中心围绕中国最重要的粮食作物之一，统筹育种、栽培与加工研究，是学校标志性的国家级平台。
The Zhengzhou branch of the national corn improvement programme works on maize varieties adapted to the central plains. The branch links the university to the national maize breeding network.国家玉米改良中心郑州分中心致力于选育适应中原地区的玉米品种，为黄淮海夏玉米区提供种源支持。该分中心把学校纳入国家玉米育种网络。
A national research base for the physiology and biochemistry of tobacco cultivation supports the work of the tobacco college. Tobacco is an important cash crop in Henan and in several neighbouring provinces.国家烟草栽培生理生化研究基地为烟草学院的教学科研提供支撑，使烟草研究从栽培延伸到生理生化层面。烟草是河南及周边省份重要的经济作物。
Together with 24 national and provincial research centres and key laboratories, these platforms make up the university's research infrastructure.这些平台与24个国家级、省部级研究中心和重点实验室共同构成学校的科研基础设施，覆盖作物、畜牧、食品与环境等方向。
In January 2017 the university signed a long-term agreement with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre in Texcoco, Mexico, to set up shared research programmes. CIMMYT is a CGIAR research centre founded in 1943.2017年1月，学校与位于墨西哥特斯科科的国际玉米小麦改良中心签署长期合作协议，共建共享研究项目。国际玉米小麦改良中心是成立于1943年的国际农业研究磋商组织下属中心。
Henan grows more than six million hectares of wheat and three million hectares of maize, accounting for over a quarter of China's wheat and a tenth of its maize. Wheat and maize are the province's two main grain crops.河南种植小麦600多万公顷、玉米300多万公顷，产量占全国小麦的四分之一以上、玉米的十分之一。小麦和玉米是河南两大主要粮食作物。
The university employs about 1,700 teaching staff, including 11 double-hired academicians and more than 400 professors and associate professors. Many staff combine teaching with agricultural extension work in the countryside.学校有教职工约1700人，其中双聘院士11人，教授和副教授400余人，师资规模在省属农业高校中居前列。许多教师把教学与农村的农业推广工作结合起来。
Thirty-four of its researchers hold special allowances from the State Council, and four are national young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions. It also has 29 provincial academic technology leaders and 68 provincial key teachers.学校有34人享受国务院政府特殊津贴，4人被评为国家有突出贡献的中青年专家，另有省级学术技术带头人多人。学校另有29名省级学术技术带头人和68名省级骨干教师。
Its library holds 2.34 million volumes, serving students across the agricultural, engineering and humanities colleges. The collection focuses on agriculture and biology, with economics and engineering alongside.学校图书馆藏书234万册，为农科、工科和人文社科各学院的学生提供服务，是河南省内重要的农业文献中心。馆藏以农业和生物文献为主体，兼有经济、理工和人文社科资料。
The university occupies more than 4,800 mu of land, roughly 320 hectares, spread over its campuses in Zhengzhou and Xuchang. The three sites are the Wenhua Road, Longzihu and Xuchang New District campuses.学校占地4800余亩，约合320公顷，分布在郑州和许昌的多个校区，为教学试验和实习提供充足空间。三个校区分别是文化路校区、龙子湖校区和许昌新区校区。
It has established intercollegiate ties with universities in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Thailand and the Netherlands. These ties support student exchanges and joint research.学校与英国、美国、加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰、日本、泰国和荷兰等国的高校建立了校际联系。这些校际联系支撑学生交流和联合研究。
Its ten disciplinary fields range from agriculture and medicine to musical art, a breadth unusual for a university named for agriculture.学校的十个学科门类从农学、医学一直延伸到音乐艺术，这种广度在以农业命名的大学中并不多见。

Campus

The university operates three campuses: Longzihu and Wenhua Road in Zhengzhou, and a third campus in Xuchang. The Zhengzhou campuses host most undergraduate teaching.学校设有三个校区，分别是郑州的龙子湖校区、文化路校区和许昌校区，形成一校三地的办学格局。郑州的两个校区承担大部分本科教学。
The Longzihu campus takes its name from Longzi Lake in Zhengzhou and is one of the university's two sites in the provincial capital. It lies in Zhengzhou's eastern new district, close to other university campuses.龙子湖校区因郑州的龙子湖而得名，是学校在省会的两个校区之一，主要承担本科教学和部分科研功能。该校区位于郑州东部的新区，周边聚集了多所高校。
The Wenhua Road campus sits in the older urban core of Zhengzhou and houses part of the university's teaching and administrative facilities.文化路校区位于郑州较早建成的城区，承担学校部分教学与行政功能，周边文化机构较为集中。
The Xuchang campus lies in Xuchang city, south of Zhengzhou, and extends the university's teaching reach beyond the provincial capital. Xuchang is an ancient city associated with the Three Kingdoms period.许昌校区位于郑州以南的许昌市，使学校的教学布局延伸到省会之外，服务豫中地区的农业人才培养。许昌是一座与三国时期密切相关的古城。
Zhengzhou, the provincial capital since 1954, stands on the North China Plain just south of the Yellow River. It is also one of China's national central cities.郑州自1954年起成为河南省会，地处华北平原、黄河以南，是全省政治、经济与交通中心。郑州还是中国国家中心城市之一。
The Longhai and Jingguang railways cross at Zhengzhou, making the city one of China's main rail hubs and giving students direct links to Beijing, Xi'an and Wuhan.陇海铁路与京广铁路在郑州交汇，使这里成为中国主要铁路枢纽之一，学生可直达北京、西安和武汉。
The campuses cover more than 4,800 mu, or about 320 hectares, a scale that reflects the university's trial fields and agricultural teaching needs. The land supports experimental fields and demonstration plots as well as buildings.各校区合计占地4800余亩，约合320公顷，这一规模与学校的试验田和农业教学需求相适应。这些土地除建筑用地外，还用于试验田和示范基地。
Each side of the campus is laid out as a themed park, and the design integrates the drainage system with the natural environment. The layout gives the agricultural campus an open, garden-like character.校园两侧均以主题公园的形式布置，设计上将排水系统与自然环境结合起来，形成具有农业院校特色的景观。这种布局使校园呈现出开阔的园林式风貌。
The university's original home was Kaifeng, the old provincial capital, and it moved to Zhengzhou only in 1957, seven decades after its agricultural school was founded. Kaifeng was the Northern Song capital and remains one of China's historic cities.学校原址在旧省会开封，直到1957年、农业专门学校创办四十余年后才迁至郑州。开封曾是北宋都城，至今仍是中国历史文化名城。
Henan produces more than a quarter of China's wheat, and the university's campuses sit inside that grain belt, which supplies its field trials and research plots.河南生产全国四分之一以上的小麦，学校各校区正位于这一粮食带内，为田间试验和研究用地提供条件。

Reputation

In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Henan Agricultural University is placed in the 901-1000 band.在2026年软科世界大学学术排名中，河南农业大学位列第901-1000名区间。
It is not included in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.学校未进入2027年QS世界大学排名。
It is also absent from the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.学校同样未进入2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
The 2026-2027 U.S. News global universities list places it 1,167th in the world.2026-2027年度U.S. News全球大学榜单将学校排在第1167名。
Its 2009 selection as the first province-ministry co-built provincial agricultural university gave it a national label that few agricultural institutions outside Beijing hold.2009年成为全国第一所省部共建省属农业大学，使学校获得了北京以外少数农业院校才有的国家级身份。
The national wheat engineering technology research centre is a national-level platform, a status that anchors the university's reputation in crop science. It coordinates wheat researchers across the province.国家小麦工程技术研究中心是国家级平台，这一身份奠定了学校在作物科学领域的声誉，也带来稳定的科研经费。该中心统筹全省的小麦研究力量。
The 2017 agreement with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre linked the university to a global research network working on wheat and maize. CIMMYT developed some of the wheat varieties behind the Green Revolution.2017年与国际玉米小麦改良中心签署的协议，把学校纳入了研究小麦和玉米的全球科研网络。国际玉米小麦改良中心培育的小麦品种曾推动绿色革命。
Because Henan supplies more than a quarter of China's wheat, the university's wheat research has direct relevance to national food security policy.由于河南提供全国四分之一以上的小麦，学校的小麦研究直接关系到国家粮食安全政策。
Thirty-four provincial key disciplines and 24 national and provincial laboratories give it the broadest agricultural research base in the province.34个省级重点学科和24个国家级、省部级实验室，使学校拥有全省最广泛的农业科研基础。
The 2021 Muyuan partnership connected its research capacity to one of China's largest pig producers and to the company's ambition to become a world-class enterprise. Muyuan is now one of the world's largest pig producers.2021年与牧原的合作把学校的科研能力与中国最大的生猪养殖企业之一及其成为世界一流企业的目标连接起来。牧原如今是全球最大的生猪养殖企业之一。
Its agricultural programme has run continuously since 1912, making it one of the oldest in China and the oldest in Henan. Few Chinese agricultural colleges predate it.学校的农业教育自1912年延续至今，是中国历史最悠久的农业教育项目之一，也是河南最早的一个。中国比它更早的农业院校并不多。

Student life

The university began enrolling foreign students in 1987, relatively early among Chinese agricultural universities. At that time few provincial agricultural universities admitted foreign students.学校自1987年开始招收外国留学生，在中国农业院校中起步较早，留学生规模逐步扩大。当时招收留学生的省属农业院校寥寥无几。
Its International Education College established a Chinese language training programme for foreign students in 2004. The programme serves students from Asia, Africa and other regions.学校国际教育学院于2004年为外国留学生开设汉语培训项目，帮助其达到专业学习所需的语言水平。该项目面向来自亚洲、非洲等地区的学生。
To help foreign students adapt, the university offers special preparatory courses before the autumn semester begins. The courses cover Chinese language and the basic scientific subjects needed for degree study.为帮助留学生适应，学校在秋季学期开学前提供专门的预备课程，内容涵盖汉语和专业课基础。课程涵盖汉语和学位学习所需的基础理科知识。
Students are spread across 20 colleges, so the campus mixes agronomy students with those studying economics, engineering, foreign languages and musical art. More than 30,000 full-time students are enrolled across the three campuses.学生分布在20个学院，校园里既有农学专业学生，也有经济、工程、外语和音乐艺术专业的学生。三个校区共有全日制在校生3万余人。
The CIMMYT agreement gives postgraduate students and young researchers access to joint programmes with Mexican and international scientists. The agreement also covers scientist training and plant science innovation.与国际玉米小麦改良中心的协议为研究生和青年研究人员提供了与墨西哥及国际科学家开展联合项目的机会。协议还涵盖科学家培训和植物科学创新。
The Muyuan joint institute offers students industry placements and research projects tied to pig breeding, feed and veterinary medicine. Students can work on breeding, nutrition and disease control.牧原联合产业研究院为学生提供与生猪育种、饲料和兽医相关的产业实习和研究项目。学生可以参与育种、营养和疾病防控方面的课题。
The College of Tobacco Science gives a small group of students training in a crop that few Chinese universities teach at degree level. Henan is one of China's main tobacco-growing provinces.烟草学院为少数学生提供烟草专业的本科训练，而中国高校中开设这一本科专业的不多。河南是中国主要的烟草种植省份之一。
Because the university has campuses in both Zhengzhou and Xuchang, some students spend part of their studies in the smaller city before returning to the capital. The three campuses divide teaching by level and discipline.由于学校在郑州和许昌都设有校区，部分学生会在较小的许昌校区学习一段时间后再回到省会。三个校区按层次和学科分担教学任务。
The university's field trials and demonstration plots give agriculture students practical work that complements classroom teaching. The university operates demonstration plots in and around Zhengzhou.学校的田间试验和示范基地为农科学生提供实践机会，与课堂教学互为补充，贯穿整个培养周期。学校在郑州及周边经营多个示范基地。

Notable people

Wu Kongming, a plant protection expert, was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2011 and is counted among the university's alumni. He later led the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.植物保护专家吴孔明于2011年当选中国工程院院士，是学校的知名校友，长期从事农业昆虫学研究。他后来担任中国农业科学院院长。
Qin Yinglin, chairman of Muyuan Foods and one of Henan's best-known entrepreneurs, studied at the university and signed its 2021 joint institute agreement.牧原股份董事长、河南知名企业家秦英林曾在校学习，并签署了2021年共建联合产业研究院的协议。
Wang Yanling, who served as president from 2003 to 2009, later became a standing committee member and political and legal secretary of Hubei Province. She later moved from university administration into provincial politics.王艳玲于2003年至2009年担任校长，后任中共湖北省委常委、政法委书记。她后来从高校管理转入省级党政工作。
Jiang Shan, a member of the pop group SNH48, is also listed among the university's alumni.流行组合SNH48成员姜杉同样被列为学校校友，是校友名录中少见的演艺界人士。
Zhang Gaiping, president from 2013 to 2021, is a veterinary immunologist and a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is known for developing rapid tests for animal viral diseases.2013年至2021年担任校长的张改平是动物免疫学家、中国工程院院士，长期研究动物疫病快速检测技术。他以研发动物病毒病快速检测技术著称。
Jiang Jianping served as president of Henan Agricultural University from September 1983 to May 1994.蒋建平于1983年9月至1994年5月担任河南农业大学校长，任期跨越学校更名前后。
Zhang Bailiang led the university as president from May 1994 to October 2003.张百良于1994年5月至2003年10月担任学校校长，任内学校扩大了本科与研究生教育规模。
Zhang Qiong was president from March 2009 to July 2013, a period that included the university's 2009 province-ministry co-construction agreement.张琼于2009年3月至2013年7月担任校长，任内学校于2009年成为省部共建高校。
Jie Xiaolei served as president from April 2021 to January 2024 and signed the Muyuan agreement at the start of his term.介晓磊于2021年4月至2024年1月担任校长，上任之初签署了与牧原的合作协议。
Zhou Wei has been president since April 2024, taking office after a career in agricultural research. He is an agricultural scientist specialising in soil fertility.周卫自2024年4月起担任校长，此前长期从事农业科研工作。他是研究土壤肥力的农业科学家。
Liu Xiaoran was the first president of the independent Henan Agricultural College, serving from 1952 to August 1954.刘潇然是河南农学院独立建院后的首任院长，任职时间为1952年至1954年8月。