Nanjing Agricultural University

Nanjing Agricultural University, abbreviated NAU and known in Chinese as 南京农业大学, is a public comprehensive research university in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province, whose teaching and research lean on agriculture and the life sciences while also covering agriculture, science, economics, management, engineering, literature and law, and which is administered directly by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China under joint construction by the ministry and the Jiangsu provincial government as a university of Project 211 and of the national Double First-Class plan.南京农业大学（英文 Nanjing Agricultural University，简称 NAU）是一所位于江苏省省会的公立综合性研究型大学，以农业和生命科学为优势与特色，兼有农学、理学、经济学、管理学、工学、文学、法学等多学科，为中华人民共和国教育部直属高校，由教育部与江苏省人民政府共建，属国家“211 工程”与“双一流”建设高校。

Its institutional lineage reaches back to the agricultural and natural-history section of Sanjiang Normal School founded in 1902, and its two immediate predecessors were the College of Agriculture of the private University of Nanking and the College of Agriculture of the National Central University, while today the university keeps its historic main campus at Weigang in Xuanwu District, a science-and-engineering campus at Pukou, and employs close to 2,900 members of academic and administrative staff.其办学可溯源至 1902 年创建的三江师范学堂农业博物科，两个直接前身分别是私立金陵大学农学院与国立中央大学农学院，如今学校在主城玄武区的卫岗保留历史主校区，在浦口设有理工校区，教职员工总数约 2,900 人。

Carrying the four-character motto of sincerity, simplicity, diligence and benevolence, the university is placed in the 901-950 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings, is not listed in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, stands at 318 in the U.S. News Best Global Universities table for 2026-2027 and sits in the 201-300 band of the 2026 ARWU.学校以“诚 朴 勤 仁”四字为校训，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列 901 至 950 档，未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中列第 318 位，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位于 201 至 300 档。

History

• The earliest root of the university is the agricultural and natural-history section set up in 1902 inside Sanjiang Normal School, the Qing-era teacher-training institution founded in Nanjing that was renamed Liangjiang Normal School in 1906 and seeded a whole family of later Jiangsu universities.学校最早的源头是 1902 年设于三江师范学堂之内的农业博物科，三江师范学堂是清末在南京创办的师范学堂，1906 年改名为两江师范学堂，由此衍生出后来江苏一系列高校。

• In 1914 the private University of Nanking, the Anglican-founded institution long romanised as Ginling and rendered in Chinese as 金陵大学, created China's first four-year agricultural department, an innovation that opened four-year higher agricultural education in the country.1914 年，教会背景的私立金陵大学（旧称 University of Nanking）设立中国第一个四年制农科，开创国内四年制高等农业教育之先河。

• That agricultural department was enlarged in 1930 into the College of Agriculture of the University of Nanking, whose American-trained dean Joseph Bailie had led the first agricultural courses in 1914 and whose long-serving American colleague John Hayes Reisner headed the section from 1915 to 1931.该农科在 1930 年扩展为金陵大学农学院，其首任农科科长、美籍学者裴义理（Joseph Bailie）曾于 1914 年主持最初的农业课程，另一位美籍系主任芮思娄（John Hayes Reisner）则自 1915 年至 1931 年执掌农科。

• On the other side of its lineage, the National Central University's agricultural college descends from the agriculture department founded in 1917 at the National Nanjing Higher Normal School, which was reorganised as the College of Agriculture of the National Central University when that institution took its new name in 1928.另一支源流，国立中央大学农学院源自 1917 年在国立南京高等师范学校设立的农科，1928 年该校改称国立中央大学时，农科随之改组为国立中央大学农学院。

• The agriculture chair at the National Nanjing Higher Normal School and then at the National Southeastern University was held from 1917 to 1927 by Zou Bingwen, a botanist and pioneer of agricultural education, while the forestry scientist Liang Xi, later the first minister of forestry of the People's Republic, served as dean of the Central University agricultural college from 1930 to 1931.南京高等师范学校与东南大学农科主任一职自 1917 年至 1927 年由植物学家、农业教育先驱邹秉文担任，后来成为中华人民共和国首任林业部部长的林学家梁希则于 1930 年至 1931 年出任中央大学农学院院长。

• Among the deans who led the Central University college through the war years, Feng Zefang, the cotton geneticist honoured as a founder of modern cotton-breeding science in China, held the post from 1942 to 1946, continuing a tradition of naming agricultural specialists to the deanship.抗战年间主持中大农学院的负责人中，被誉为中国现代棉花育种科学奠基人的遗传育种学家冯泽芳于 1942 年至 1946 年任院长，延续了由农业专家出任院长的传统。

• After the founding of the People's Republic in 1949 the two colleges were renamed to strip their private and old-regime labels, with the private University of Nanking agricultural college becoming a public Jinling college and the National Central University agricultural college becoming the College of Agriculture of the National University of Nanjing.1949 年中华人民共和国成立后，两所农学院更名以去掉私立与旧政权标签，私立金陵大学农学院改为公立金陵大学农学院，国立中央大学农学院改为国立南京大学农学院。

• From August 1948 to July 1952 the wheat geneticist Jin Shanbao, later a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and one of the founders of modern wheat science in China, served as dean of the agricultural college of the National University of Nanjing, the post that placed him at the head of the merged institution.1948 年 8 月至 1952 年 7 月，小麦遗传育种学家、后当选中国科学院院士并被誉为中国现代小麦科学奠基人之一的金善宝担任国立南京大学农学院院长，此职使他成为合并后学校的领军人物。

• In the nationwide reorganisation of colleges and departments of June 1952 the agricultural colleges of the University of Nanking and of the National University of Nanjing were merged, together with parts of the agricultural college of Zhejiang University, to create a new institution named Nanjing Agricultural College, and Jin Shanbao became its first president.在 1952 年 6 月的全国院系调整中，金陵大学农学院与南京大学农学院合并，并调入浙江大学农学院部分系科，组建新校定名为南京农学院，金善宝出任首任院长。

• In the early 1960s the State Council identified Nanjing Agricultural College as one of only two national key agricultural colleges and universities in the whole country, a designation that fixed its standing in the state system of higher agricultural education.20 世纪 60 年代初，国务院确定南京农学院为全国仅有的两所重点农业高校之一，这一认定确立了它在国家高等农业教育体系中的地位。

• In January 1972 the school was moved out of Nanjing to Yangzhou and merged with the then Subei Agricultural College to form Jiangsu Agricultural College, an episode that interrupted but did not end the institution's presence on its Weigang site.1972 年 1 月学校迁往扬州，与当时的苏北农学院合并成立江苏农学院，这段插曲一度中断、但并未终结学校在卫岗原址的办学。

• In February 1979, with the approval of the State Council, Nanjing Agricultural College resumed teaching on its original Weigang site in Nanjing and was enrolled among the national key universities administered by the Ministry of Agriculture, beginning the process of rebuilding departments and faculty.1979 年 2 月经国务院批准，南京农学院在南京卫岗原址恢复办学，列入农业部所属全国重点大学，由此开始院系与师资的重建。

• In July 1984, on the approval of the Ministry of Education, Nanjing Agricultural College was renamed Nanjing Agricultural University, adopting the university name under which it is known today and completing its transition from a specialised college to a comprehensive agricultural university.1984 年 7 月经教育部批准，南京农学院更名为南京农业大学，采用沿用至今的校名，完成由专门学院向综合性农业大学的转型。

• The presidents of the restored college and renamed university formed an unbroken line from wheat and soybean breeders, with Liu Dajun, a wheat cytogeneticist, holding office from December 1983 to November 1991 and Gai Junyi, a soybean geneticist, succeeding him from November 1991 to July 1995.复办后的农学院与更名后大学的校长谱系自小麦与大豆育种家一脉相承，小麦细胞遗传学家刘大钧于 1983 年 12 月至 1991 年 11 月任职，大豆遗传育种学家盖钧镒于 1991 年 11 月至 1995 年 7 月接任。

• Zhai Huqu, himself a crop-science professor who later moved to national posts at the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, served as president from July 1995 to October 2001, followed by the plant-pathology professor Zheng Xiaobo, who held the office from October 2001 to July 2011.翟虎渠本人是作物学家，后转任国家科学技术部与中国农业科学院的领导职务，于 1995 年 7 月至 2001 年 10 月任校长，其后由植物病理学教授郑小波于 2001 年 10 月至 2011 年 7 月主政。

• In December 1998 Nanjing Agricultural University officially entered the national Project 211 key-construction list, the programme that concentrated state funding on a defined group of universities and that it has retained through the later Double First-Class framework.1998 年 12 月南京农业大学正式进入国家“211 工程”重点建设高校名单，这一集中投放国家资源的工程它此后一直延续到后来的“双一流”框架之中。

• In February 2000 the university changed its supervising ministry when it was transferred from the independent administration of the Ministry of Agriculture to direct management by the Ministry of Education, a broad reshuffle that moved many sectoral colleges into the education ministry's system.2000 年 2 月学校改变主管部门，由农业部独立建制划转教育部直接管理，这是把众多行业院校收进教育部系统的大范围调整的一部分。

• Zhou Guanghong, a food-science professor and former deputy minister of education, served as president from July 2011 to March 2019, overseeing a period of campus construction and discipline expansion before handing the office to the horticulture scientist Chen Fadi.食品科学教授、原教育部副部长周光宏于 2011 年 7 月至 2019 年 3 月任校长，主持了校区建设与学科扩展阶段，后将职位交棒给园艺学家陈发棣。

• The incumbent president is Chen Fadi, a Chuan-Chong Kong Chair professor of horticulture and a Cheung Kong Scholar, who took office in March 2019 and is noted for chrysanthemum genomics, while the party committee secretary of the university is the professor Wang Chunchun.现任校长为园艺学教授、何昌谷讲座教授与“长江学者”陈发棣，他于 2019 年 3 月上任并以菊花基因组研究著称，学校党委书记为教授王春春。

• Selected among the first cohort of national pilot universities for the excellence-education plan for agricultural and forestry talent, the institution has kept its founding emphasis on crop and horticultural sciences while broadening into veterinary, environmental and information-agriculture fields.作为全国卓越农林人才教育培养计划改革试点高校首批入选院校，学校始终保留其创校时以作物与园艺科学为核心的侧重，同时向兽医、环境与信息农业等领域扩展。

Academics

• The university's teaching is delivered through a wide set of colleges, among them the College of Agriculture, the College of Plant Protection, the College of Horticulture, the College of Animal Science and Technology, the College of Veterinary Medicine, the College of Food Science and Technology, and the College of Resources and Environmental Sciences.学校教学由众多学院承担，包括农学院、植物保护学院、园艺学院、动物科技学院、动物医学院、食品科学技术学院与资源与环境科学学院。

• Alongside its agricultural core it also runs colleges of life sciences, of economics and management, of public administration, of humanities and social development, of foreign studies, of information science and technology, of finance, of prataculture, and the rural development college, the last of them reflecting its role in training rural-governance cadres.在农业核心之外，学校还设有生命科学学院、经济管理学院、公共管理学院、人文与社会发展学院、外国语学院、信息科学技术学院、金融学院、草业学院与农村发展学院，其中农村发展学院体现其培养乡村治理人才的角色。

• Engineering and computing teaching is grouped in the College of Engineering, the College of Information Management and the College of Artificial Intelligence, all of which are located on the Pukou campus in northern Nanjing rather than on the historic Weigang site.工学与信息类教学集中于工学院、信息管理学院与人工智能学院，这三所学院均设于南京北部的浦口校区，而非历史悠久的卫岗校区。

• It also houses the Wuxi Fisheries College, a unit devoted to aquaculture and situated west of Suzhou at the western edge of Lake Tai, extending the university's reach beyond Nanjing into the fishery belt of southern Jiangsu.学校另设无锡渔业学院，这一专攻水产养殖的院系坐落在苏州以西、太湖西缘的无锡市，把学校的影响从南京延伸到苏南的渔业地带。

• By November 2025 the university offered 17 first-level doctoral programmes, 30 first-level master's programmes, 14 categories of professional degrees and 17 post-doctoral research mobile stations, a degree ladder that spans from undergraduate training to independent doctoral supervision.截至 2025 年 11 月，学校拥有 17 个一级学科博士学位授权点、30 个一级学科硕士学位授权点、14 种专业学位授予权与 17 个博士后科研流动站，形成从本科到独立培养博士的学位阶梯。

• Its national-key discipline portfolio includes 4 first-level national key disciplines, namely crop science, agricultural resource utilisation, plant protection and veterinary medicine, together with 13 second-level national key disciplines and 1 national key discipline under cultivation, food science.国家重点学科阵容含 4 个一级学科国家重点学科，即作物学、农业资源利用、植物保护与兽医学，另有 13 个二级学科国家重点学科与 1 个国家重点（培育）学科食品科学。

• The second-level key disciplines detail the depth of its crop and veterinary strengths, running from crop cultivation and farming and crop genetics and breeding through soil science, plant nutrition, plant pathology, agricultural entomology, pesticide science and the basic, preventive and clinical branches of veterinary medicine.二级学科国家重点学科细描其在作物与兽医方面的纵深，涵盖作物栽培学与耕作学、作物遗传育种、土壤学、植物营养学、植物病理学、农业昆虫与害虫防治、农药学，以及基础、预防、临床三科兽医学。

• By the count of national key disciplines the university ranked 25th among all Chinese universities, 2nd among the agriculture-and-forestry group and 3rd among universities in Jiangsu Province, a subject-dimension standing that outpaces its composite world ranking.按国家重点学科数量计，学校在全国高校中列第 25 位、农林类高校第 2 位、江苏省高校第 3 位，这一学科维度的名次超过其综合世界排名。

• In the national Double First-Class plan the university's designated world-class construction discipline is crop science, the subject descended from the wheat, rice and soybean breeding schools that its academician presidents built over the decades.在国家“双一流”建设中，学校入选世界一流学科建设名单的是作物学，该学科源自历任院士校长数十年建立的小麦、水稻与大豆育种学派。

• By ESI paper counts six of the university's subject fields enter the global top one per cent, namely agricultural sciences, plant and animal science, environment and ecology, biology and biochemistry, engineering and microbiology, with agricultural sciences advanced into the world's top one per mille and thus into the first rank of its field.按 ESI 论文数计，学校有 6 个学科领域进入全球前百分之一，即农业科学、植物与动物科学、环境生态学、生物与生物化学、工程学与微生物学，其中农业科学进入全球前百分之一，跻身世界一流学科行列。

• Its academic staff reached close to 2,900 people by November 2025, including 4 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, some 72 holders of national talent distinctions such as the Distinguished Young Scholar Fund, 4 national master teachers and 2 innovation research groups funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.截至 2025 年 11 月全校教职员工 2,900 余人，其中中国工程院院士 4 名，国家杰出青年科学基金获得者等国家层次人才约 72 人次，国家级教学名师 4 人，国家自然科学基金委创新研究群体 2 个。

• Its roster of academician scientists is unusually concentrated on crop breeding, with Liu Dajun for wheat elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999, Gai Junyi for soybean elected in 2001, Wan Jianmin for rice elected in 2015, and Zhang Shaoling for pear science elected in 2023, three of them having also served as president.院士阵容高度集中在作物育种，刘大钧因小麦于 1999 年当选中国工程院院士，盖钧镒因大豆于 2001 年当选，万建民因水稻于 2015 年当选，张绍铃因梨科学于 2023 年当选，其中三人都曾任校长。

• A group of Cheung Kong Scholars anchors its research faculties, among them Zhang Tianzhen in crop molecular breeding, Wang Yuanchao in plant pathology, Chen Fadi in horticulture, Zhou Jiyong in veterinary medicine and Zhu Jing in agricultural economics, several of them also holders of the Distinguished Young Scholar Fund.一批“长江学者”支撑其科研队伍，包括作物分子育种学家张天真、植物病理学家王源超、园艺学家陈发棣、兽医学家周继勇与农业经济学家朱晶，其中数人同时是国家杰出青年科学基金获得者。

• Its flagship national research platform is the State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Innovation, complemented by the National Soybean Improvement Center and by engineering-technology centres for meat quality and safety control, for information agriculture and for organic-based fertilizers.旗舰国家级科研平台是作物遗传与种质创新国家重点实验室，另设国家大豆改良中心，以及肉品质量安全控制、信息农业与有机类肥料等工程技术研究中心。

• It has built a spread of national and provincial engineering centres, including a joint national-local engineering centre for rural land-resource use and consolidation and another for green pesticide development and application, giving its environmental and agrochemical research formal state channels.学校建成一系列国家与省级工程中心，包括农村土地资源利用与整治国家地方联合工程研究中心，以及绿色农药创制与应用技术国家地方联合工程研究中心，为其环境与农药研究提供正式的国家通道。

• Its Ministry of Education innovation research groups cover the gene resources and molecular breeding of major crops under Zhang Tianzhen, the biology of plant nutrition under Zhao Fangjie, and biotechnological soybean breeding under Li Yan, matching these teams to its strongest disciplines.教育部创新团队涵盖张天真主持的主要农作物基因资源与分子育种、赵方杰主持的植物营养生物学，以及李艳主持的大豆生物技术育种，使团队与优势学科对应。

• On the publication side the university produces the Journal of Nanjing Agricultural University, its social-science edition, and shares with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences the internationally indexed journal Horticulture Research, one of the highest-impact venues in the horticultural field.在出版方面，学校办有《南京农业大学学报》及其社会科学版，并与中国农业科学院合办被国际检索的期刊 Horticulture Research（《园艺研究》），该刊是园艺领域影响力最高的刊物之一。

Campus

• The historic Weigang campus in Xuanwu District is the university's seat and the original site on which Nanjing Agricultural College was restored in 1979 after the Yangzhou interlude, its grounds sitting at roughly 32.06 degrees north and 118.78 degrees east in the southern part of central Nanjing.玄武区的卫岗校区是学校的本部，也是 1979 年扬州插曲之后南京农学院得以复办的原址，校园大致位于北纬 32.06 度、东经 118.78 度的南京城南一带。

• The Pukou campus lies across the Yangtze in the northern suburbs and was developed to hold the engineering, information-management and artificial-intelligence colleges, separating the university's technology teaching from the agricultural colleges that stayed on the Weigang site.浦口校区位于长江以北的近郊，为容纳工学院、信息管理学院与人工智能学院而建设，使学校的工科教学与留在卫岗的农学院彼此分工。

• Beyond its Nanjing campuses the Wuxi Fisheries College occupies facilities in Wuxi at the western edge of Lake Tai, giving students of aquaculture a working base among the fishery and freshwater systems of southern Jiangsu.在南京各校区之外，无锡渔业学院在太湖西缘的无锡市占用基地，为水产学生提供苏南渔业与淡水系统的工作场所。

• Its campus research facilities include the State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Innovation and the National Soybean Improvement Center, both of which anchor field-and-laboratory training for crop-science students on the main grounds.校内科研设施包括作物遗传与种质创新国家重点实验室与国家大豆改良中心，二者在卫岗主校区为作物学学生提供田间与实验室结合的实训。

• The university houses the Institution and museum of Chinese agricultural civilisation, an institute that collects and studies the history of farming in China and gives the campus a scholarly identity rooted in the agrarian heritage of the Yangtze delta.学校设有中华农业文明研究院及其博物馆，收藏与研究中国农业历史，使校园带有植根于长江三角洲农耕传统的学术标识。

• Total floor area, library stock and campus grounds are documented by the university for its combined Weigang, Pukou and Wuxi sites, with the Weigang core carrying the administrative buildings, teaching laboratories and agricultural experiment fields inherited from the restored college.学校为卫岗、浦口与无锡各校区合计公布建筑面积、馆藏与校园用地等数据，其中卫岗核心保留复办农学院继承下来的行政楼、教学实验室与农业试验田。

• As an institution directly under the Ministry of Education and co-built with Jiangsu Province, the university shares its Nanjing setting with several Project 211 neighbours, drawing on the provincial transport, metro and research infrastructure that links Weigang to the rest of the city.作为教育部直属、与江苏省共建的高校，学校与多所“211 工程”邻校共享南京城市环境，依托连接卫岗与全市的省级交通、地铁与科研基础设施。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Nanjing Agricultural University is placed in the 901-950 band, a range in which universities are listed together rather than given distinct positions.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，南京农业大学位于 901 至 950 档，同档高校并列列出而不给逐一名次。

• The university is not listed in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, so its international visibility in that particular table has yet to register despite its national key status.学校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，虽具全国重点地位，在该榜上的国际能见度尚未显现。

• In the U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 the university is placed at 318 in the world, its strongest showing among the four composite global tables and a reflection of its high volume of agricultural research output.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，学校列世界第 318 位，是四张综合世界榜中名次最好的一张，反映其农业科研产出的高体量。

• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, published by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy associated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, puts the university in the 201-300 band, its best placement on a table that weighs national research output and prize-linked metrics.由与上海交通大学相关的软科评价小组发布的 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名，把学校列在 201 至 300 档，这是它在偏重国家科研产出与奖项指标的榜单上的最好名次。

• On the subject dimension the university's national-key-discipline count ranked 25th nationally and 2nd among agriculture-and-forestry universities, while six of its ESI fields enter the world top one per cent and its agricultural sciences reach the top one per mille, marking its strongest international discipline standing.在学科维度上，学校国家重点学科数量列全国第 25 位、农林类高校第 2 位，6 个 ESI 学科进入全球前百分之一，农业科学更进入前百分之一，显示其最强的国际学科名次。

• In research-output terms the university's record under its OpenAlex institution profile counts 64,785 published works attracting 6,970,830 citations, figures that underpin its comparatively high U.S. News and ARWU positions relative to its QS band.在科研产出方面，学校在 OpenAlex 机构档案下累计 64,785 项研究成果、被引 6,970,830 次，这些数字支撑其在 US News 与软科榜上相对 QS 档更高一些的名次。

• Its hard honour count comes from the Chinese state talent system rather than the Nobel, Turing or Fields prizes, since the university claims 4 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and several national master teachers, the domestic equivalents of top-tier recognition for an agricultural science school.其硬荣誉计数来自中国国家人才体系而非诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖，学校拥有 4 名中国工程院院士及多位国家级教学名师，这是农业类高校在国内公认的顶级荣誉。

• The university's composite standing is anchored in its selection for Project 211 in December 1998, its transfer to Ministry of Education management in February 2000 and its inclusion in the national Double First-Class plan with crop science as its construction discipline, tiering it among China's senior agricultural universities.学校的综合地位奠基于 1998 年 12 月入选“211 工程”、2000 年 2 月划转教育部管理，以及以作物学为建设学科入选国家“双一流”计划，使其跻身中国高等农业院校前列。

Student life

• The university's motto is set in four classical characters meaning sincerity, simplicity, diligence and benevolence, condensed as 诚 朴 勤 仁, an ethos that foregrounds honesty and plain living alongside scholarly effort and concern for people.学校校训以四个古汉字“诚 朴 勤 仁”表达，意为诚信、朴实、勤奋与仁爱，这一校风把做人诚实、生活朴素与治学勤勉、关怀他人并置。

• An earlier eight-character line urging unity, diligence, realism and innovation has been retained as the institutional school spirit after the four-character motto took its place, so students encounter both formulations across campus life.较早的“团结 勤奋 求实 创新”八字方针在四字校训确立后保留为校风，因此学生在校园生活中会同时遇到这两种表述。

• Undergraduate life is divided by discipline between the two main sites, with agriculture, plant-protection, horticulture and veterinary students centred on the Weigang campus while engineering, information-management and artificial-intelligence students spend their years on the Pukou campus north of the Yangtze.本科生活按学科分在两处主校区，农学、植保、园艺与兽医学生以卫岗校区为中心，而工学、信息管理与人工智能专业的学生在长江以北的浦口校区就读。

• Field and laboratory training is built into student life through the crop-science state key laboratory, the National Soybean Improvement Center and the agricultural experiment grounds inherited at Weigang, so many students work directly with experimental plots rather than only in lecture halls.田间与实验室实训融入学生生活，作物学国家重点实验室、国家大豆改良中心与卫岗继承的农业试验田为学生提供场所，许多学生直接参与试验田工作，而不只是听课。

• Students in aquaculture and fishery science undertake part of their programme at the Wuxi Fisheries College, working among the freshwater systems of the Lake Tai basin, which adds a second-city dimension to their undergraduate years.水产与渔业科学学生在无锡渔业学院完成部分学业，在太湖流域的淡水系统中实习，为其本科阶段增添“第二座城市”的经历。

• Campus scholarly life is enriched by the Institution of Chinese Agricultural Civilisation and its museum, which host exhibitions and research seminars on the history of farming and give students a shared sense of the agrarian traditions their discipline inherits.校园学术生活因中华农业文明研究院及其博物馆而更丰富，该院举办农耕史展览与研究讲座，让学生对所学专业继承的农耕传统产生共同认同。

• As a Double First-Class university directly under the Ministry of Education, the institution runs international exchange and joint-training programmes with agricultural and life-science partners, admitting overseas students alongside its domestic cohorts through its foreign-studies and science colleges.作为教育部直属的“双一流”高校，学校与农业和生命科学领域的伙伴开展国际交流与联合培养，通过外国语学院与各理科院系招收留学生，与国内学生同堂学习。

Notable people

• Jin Shanbao, the wheat geneticist and one of the founders of modern wheat science in China, was the first president of the merged Nanjing Agricultural College and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, having earlier led the agricultural college of the National University of Nanjing from 1948.金善宝是小麦遗传育种学家、中国现代小麦科学奠基人之一，任合并后南京农学院首任院长，并当选中国科学院院士，1948 年起即主持国立南京大学农学院。

• Liu Dajun, a wheat cytogeneticist elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1999, served as president from 1983 to 1991 and established the university's reputation in chromosome research on wheat and its relatives, continuing the crop-breeding school of his predecessors.刘大钧是小麦细胞遗传学家，1999 年当选中国工程院院士，1983 年至 1991 年任校长，确立学校在小麦及其近缘物种染色体研究上的声望，延续前任的作物育种学派。

• Gai Junyi, a soybean geneticist elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2001, was president from 1991 to 1995 and long directed the National Soybean Improvement Center, the platform that made the university a national hub for grain-legume breeding.盖钧镒是大豆遗传育种学家，2001 年当选中国工程院院士，1991 年至 1995 年任校长，并长期主持国家大豆改良中心，使学校成为粮油豆类育种的国家级重镇。

• Wan Jianmin, a rice geneticist elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2015, is a Cheung Kong Scholar whose work on rice disease resistance and germplasm broadened the university's crop-science standing into molecular breeding of the staple grain.万建民是水稻遗传育种学家，2015 年当选中国工程院院士，为“长江学者”，其在水稻抗病性与种质方面的工作把学校的作物学声望扩展到主粮的分子育种。

• Zhang Shaoling, elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2023 for his research on pear biology and the pear industry, represents the horticultural branch of the university's academician tradition and heads genomics programmes at the College of Horticulture.张绍铃因梨生物学与梨产业研究于 2023 年当选中国工程院院士，代表学校院士传统的园艺一支，并主持园艺学院的基因组学项目。

• Liang Xi, the forestry scientist who briefly deaned the National Central University agricultural college in 1930-1931, later became the first minister of forestry of the People's Republic and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, one of the earliest eminent scientists tied to the university's institutional ancestry.林学家梁希曾在 1930 至 1931 年短暂出任国立中央大学农学院院长，后任中华人民共和国首任林业部部长并当选中国科学院院士，是该校办学历程中最早的名科学家之一。

• Zou Bingwen, who held the agriculture chair at the National Nanjing Higher Normal School and the National Southeastern University from 1917 to 1927, is remembered as a pioneer of modern agricultural education in China and helped seed the Central University college that later merged into the university.邹秉文自 1917 年至 1927 年主持南京高等师范学校与国立东南大学农科，被誉为中国现代农业教育的先驱，参与孕育了后来并入本校的中央大学农学院。

• Among graduates in public service, Wang Rong rose to chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference after earlier serving as party secretary of Shenzhen, and Zhou Hongbo, a 1992 graduate, became a member of the Jiangsu provincial standing committee and party secretary of Nanjing.政界校友中，王荣曾任中共广东省委常委、深圳市委书记，后升至广东省政协主席，1992 年毕业的周红波则成为江苏省委常委、南京市委书记。

• Cao Weixing, a graduate of 1982 who took a master's degree in 1985 and later a Distinguished Young Scholar award in precision agriculture, served as a vice-minister of natural resources and as a vice-governor of Jiangsu, carrying the university's agronomy school into national resource policy.曹卫星 1982 年本科毕业、1985 年获硕士，后成为精准农业方向的国家杰出青年科学基金获得者，曾任自然资源部副部长与江苏省副省长，把学校农学学派带入国家资源政策。

• Chen Guoxiang, a botanist who earned his doctorate at the university in 1998, later became president of the neighbouring Nanjing Normal University, an example of the academic circulation between the two Nanjing institutions that share a common 1902 Sanjiang root.植物学家陈国祥 1998 年在本校获博士学位，后出任相邻的南京师范大学校长，是这两所以 1902 年三江师范学堂为共同源头的南京高校之间学术流动的例子。