Nanjing Forestry University

Nanjing Forestry University (NJFU) is a provincial public university in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, specialising in forestry, ecology, landscape architecture and the engineered uses of wood and bamboo.南京林业大学是位于中国江苏省南京市的省属公办大学，以林学、生态、风景园林以及木材与竹材的工程利用为特色。

It is co-built by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, the Ministry of Education and the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, and it belongs to the Double First-Class Construction as a first-class discipline university, a category reserved for institutions whose strength lies in particular disciplines.学校由国家林业和草原局、教育部与江苏省人民政府共建，并以一流学科建设高校身份进入「双一流」建设；这一类别专门授予在特定学科而非整体学科布局上具有优势的高校。

In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 it sits in the 401-500 band, it is placed in the 651-700 band of the Times Higher Education ranking for 2027, it is ranked 386th by U.S. News for 2026-2027, and it did not enter the QS World University Rankings 2027.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，学校位列第 401-500 名区间；在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中位列第 651-700 名区间；在 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中位列第 386 名；未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名。

History

• The university's two sources are the Sanjiang Normal College of 1902, from which National Central University descended, and the Jinling University of 1910, both of them missionary-era or early modern institutions in Nanjing.学校的两大源头是 1902 年的三江师范学堂（中央大学的前身）与 1910 年的金陵大学，二者都是南京早期的近代高等学府。
• Jinling University opened a forestry section in 1915, and National Central University created a forest group in 1927, so forestry teaching in Nanjing predates the university itself by almost four decades.金陵大学 1915 年设立林科，中央大学 1927 年设立森林组，南京的林业教学因此比学校本身早了近四十年。
• In July 1952, during the nationwide departmental adjustment, the forestry departments of Nanjing University, the successor of Central University, and of Jinling University were merged to form the East China Forestry College.1952 年 7 月全国院系调整时，南京大学（中央大学的后继者）森林系与金陵大学森林系合并，成立华东林学院。
• In September 1952 the Ministry of Forestry decided that the college would be sited in Nanjing and named it Nanjing Forestry College, which began the institution's independent existence.1952 年 9 月，中央林垦部决定将学院设址南京，定名「南京林学院」，学校自此开始独立办学历程。
• At its foundation the college was one of only three higher forestry institutions in mainland China, a position that shaped its national role in forestry education.建校之初，学校是中国大陆仅有的三所高等林业院校之一，这一位置塑造了它在林业教育中的全国性角色。
• In 1955 the second national adjustment brought in the forestry department of Central China Agricultural College, itself formed from the forestry departments of Wuhan University, Nanchang University and Hubei Agricultural College.1955 年第二次全国院系调整，华中农学院林学系并入，该系由武汉大学、南昌大学与湖北农学院的森林系合并组成。
• Zheng Wanjun, who had discovered and named the dawn redwood Metasequoia glyptostroboides in the 1940s, served as president from 1956 to 1962 and is commemorated in the university emblem.郑万钧于 1956 年至 1962 年任校长，他曾在 1940 年代发现并定名孑遗植物水杉，学校校徽正是为纪念他而设计。
• Wang Xintian followed him as president from 1962 to 1968, a period in which the college's teaching was disrupted by national political campaigns.王心田于 1962 年至 1968 年继任校长，这一时期学校的教学受到全国政治运动的冲击。
• In 1972 the Jiangsu Revolutionary Committee approved renaming the college the Nanjing Technological College of Forest Products, a change made to avoid moving the institution from the city into the mountains.1972 年，江苏省革委会批准学校改名为南京林产工业学院，此举是为避免学校由城市搬迁至山区。
• The new name shifted the emphasis from forestry to forest products industry, and it remained in use until the Ministry of Forestry approved a restoration in October 1983.新校名把重心从「林」转向「林产工业」，这一名称一直沿用到 1983 年 10 月林业部批准恢复原名。
• In August 1985 the Ministry of Forestry approved the change from Nanjing Forestry College to Nanjing Forestry University, the name the institution has carried since.1985 年 8 月，林业部批准南京林学院更名为南京林业大学，此名沿用至今。
• The institution has carried four names: Nanjing Forestry College from 1952, Nanjing Technological College of Forest Products from 1972, the restored Nanjing Forestry College from 1983 and Nanjing Forestry University from 1985.学校先后用过四个校名：1952 年的南京林学院、1972 年的南京林产工业学院、1983 年恢复的南京林学院，以及 1985 年起的南京林业大学。
• Zhu Jifan was party secretary from 1981 to 1984 and Xia Chengyao from 1984 to 1993, years in which the forestry name was restored and university status granted.朱济凡于 1981 年至 1984 年任党委书记，夏承尧于 1984 年至 1993 年继任，这一时期学校恢复了林业校名并升格为大学。
• Li Li was president from 1973 to 1979, Ma Dapu from 1979 to 1984 and Wang Mingxiu from 1984 to 1993, a sequence that spans the restoration of the forestry name.李力于 1973 年至 1979 年任校长，马大浦于 1979 年至 1984 年、王明庥于 1984 年至 1993 年相继任校长，这一序列跨越了校名恢复的转折。
• The Bamboo Research Institute was approved by the Ministry of Forestry in July 1984, in the same period in which the university was rebuilding its research profile.竹类研究所于 1984 年 7 月经林业部批准成立，正值学校重建科研体系的时期。
• Zhao Qiseng was president from 1993 to 1997 and Yu Shiyuan from 1997 to 2010, the longest presidential tenure in the university's recent history.赵奇僧于 1993 年至 1997 年任校长，余世袁于 1997 年至 2010 年任校长，是学校近期任职时间最长的一位校长。
• After 2000 the university's governing relationship changed and its scale of operation expanded, as provincial funding replaced the older ministry-led arrangement.2000 年以后，学校的管理体制发生变化，办学规模不断扩大，省级投入取代了此前以部委为主的管理格局。
• In December 2001 the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government agreed to rename the university Nanjing University of Science and Technology, but the Ministry of Education never approved the change.2001 年 12 月，江苏省人民政府同意学校更名为「南京科技大学」，但教育部至今未予批准。
• Cheng Zhiwen led the party organisation from 1993 to 2000, Chen Jinghuan from 2000 to 2010 and Feng Chaonian from 2010 to 2017, a run of three secretaries across twenty-four years.程志文于 1993 年至 2000 年任党委书记，陈景欢于 2000 年至 2010 年、封超年于 2010 年至 2017 年相继接任，二十四年间共三任书记。
• Jiang Jianqing was party secretary from 2017 to 2022, working alongside president Wang Hao during the period in which the Baima campus was planned.蒋建清于 2017 年至 2022 年任党委书记，任内与校长王浩共事，白马校区在此期间进入规划阶段。
• Cao Fuliang was president from 2010 to 2017 and Wang Hao from 2017 to 2022, when the university consolidated its position in the Double First-Class list.曹福亮于 2010 年至 2017 年任校长，王浩于 2017 年至 2022 年任校长，其间学校巩固了在「双一流」名单中的地位。
• Yong Qiang has been president since 2022, the year in which the Baima campus project was being prepared for its 2024 opening.勇强自 2022 年起任校长，同年白马校区项目进入启用前的筹备阶段。
• The university dates its anniversary to 7 October, the day in 1952 on which the East China Forestry College was formally established.学校以 10 月 7 日为校庆日，1952 年的这一天华东林学院正式成立。

Academics

• Teaching is organised into 23 schools and departments together with 60 subordinate departments, a structure that keeps forestry, industry and design units in one institution.学校设有 23 个院（部）与 60 个系（部），这一结构把林业、工业与设计类单位置于同一所学校之中。
• The College of Forestry and the College of Ecology and Environment carry the university's core teaching in silviculture, forest ecology, conservation and environmental science.林学院与生态与环境学院承担学校在造林、森林生态、保护生物学与环境科学方面的核心教学。
• Materials science and engineering, chemical engineering, and light industry and food are taught in separate colleges that work on wood, bamboo, pulp, paper and biomass products.材料科学与工程学院、化学工程学院以及轻工与食品学院分别办学，研究木材、竹材、制浆造纸与生物质产品。
• Mechanical and electronic engineering, civil engineering, and automobile and transportation engineering apply engineering methods to forest machinery, wood construction and transport.机械电子工程学院、土木工程学院与汽车与交通工程学院把工程方法用于林业机械、木结构建筑与交通运输。
• Landscape architecture has its own college, reflecting the university's role in garden design and in the greening of Chinese cities.风景园林学院独立设置，体现学校在园林设计与中国城市绿化方面的作用。
• Furniture and industrial design is taught as a distinct college, a legacy of the university's long work on wood processing and interior products.家具与工业设计学院单独设置，这是学校长期从事木材加工与室内产品研究的延续。
• Economics and management, humanities and social sciences, information science and technology, science, and foreign languages complete the teaching map of the university.经济管理学院、人文社会科学学院、信息科学技术学院、理学院与外国语学院构成了学校教学版图的其余部分。
• Two further schools, the College of Life Sciences and the College of Art and Design, sit alongside the forestry and engineering colleges in the 23-unit structure.生命科学学院与艺术设计学院是另外两所学院，与林业、工程类学院并列于 23 个院（部）的结构之中。
• A graduate school, an applied technology college, a continuing education college and an international education college handle postgraduate training and non-degree students.研究生院、应用技术学院、继续教育学院与国际教育学院负责研究生培养与非学位学生教育。
• The Bamboo Research Institute, approved in July 1984, describes itself as the earliest and most comprehensive institution in China devoted to the biology of bamboo.1984 年 7 月批准设立的竹类研究所，自称为中国成立最早、研究领域最为齐全的竹类生物学研究机构。
• Its research covers bamboo growth, plantation cultivation, forest ecology and the use of bamboo ecosystems, bamboo diversity, wood anatomy and properties, pest control and the cultivation of bamboo fungus.其研究涵盖竹类生长规律、竹林培育、竹林生态与生态环境利用、竹类多样性、竹材解剖与材性、病虫害防治以及竹荪培育。
• The university is co-built by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, the Ministry of Education and Jiangsu Province, an arrangement that ties its curriculum to national forestry policy.学校由国家林业和草原局、教育部与江苏省共建，这一体制使其课程与国家林业政策紧密相连。
• It is a Double First-Class university on the first-class discipline list, and Jiangsu Province lists it among its high-level universities for priority construction.学校是「双一流」一流学科建设高校，江苏省也将其列入高水平大学重点建设行列。
• Its forestry and forest-products disciplines are supported by laboratories, a design institute and experimental forests that serve both teaching and provincial forestry services.学校的林学与林产学科由实验室、设计院所与实验林场支撑，既服务教学，也服务全省林业事业。
• The Huai'an campus, with 500 mu of land, teaches the first two years of several undergraduate programmes under the 2+2 arrangement.淮安校区占地 500 亩，按「2+2」模式承担若干本科专业前两年的教学。
• The Baima campus in Lishui District is planned at more than 3,700 mu and opened in 2024 to take first-year students.位于溧水区的白马校区规划用地 3700 多亩，于 2024 年投入使用，接收一年级学生。
• Whichever campus students attend, the degree certificate and the bachelor's diploma are issued by Nanjing Forestry University.无论学生在哪个校区就读，本科毕业证书与学士学位证书均由南京林业大学颁发。

Campus

• The Xinzhuang campus in Xuanwu District, at 159 Longpan Road, has been the university's Nanjing home since 1955 and remains its principal address in the city.位于玄武区龙蟠路 159 号的新庄校区，自 1955 年起就是学校在南京的校址，至今仍是其主要办学地址。
• It lies east of the Purple Mountain and west of Xuanwu Lake, a setting that places the campus between two of Nanjing's best-known landscapes.校区东依紫金山、西傍玄武湖，处在南京两处最著名的山水景观之间。
• The Huai'an campus stands at 1 Meigao East Road in Huai'an, a city in northern Jiangsu, and occupies about 500 mu.淮安校区位于苏北淮安市的枚皋东路 1 号，占地约 500 亩。
• Its admission scores are lower than those of the Nanjing campus, and students complete the same curriculum before transferring to Nanjing for their final two years.该校区的高考录取分数线低于南京校区，学生完成相同课程后转入南京完成后两年学业。
• The Baima campus in Baima town, Lishui District, follows the Baima Avenue address and was planned with more than 3,700 mu of land.白马校区位于溧水区白马镇白马大道，规划用地 3700 多亩。
• The 2024 cohort studied there for one year before moving to Nanjing, and from the 2025 intake the university adopted the 2+2 pattern for Baima as well.2024 级学生在该校区学习一年后转入南京，从 2025 级起白马校区也改为「2+2」模式。
• The Baima campus address is 58 Baima Avenue in Baima town, Lishui District, on the southern edge of the Nanjing municipal area.白马校区的地址是溧水区白马镇白马大道 58 号，位于南京市域的南缘。
• The Nanjing campus no longer enrols new undergraduates, its teaching having been redistributed to the Huai'an and Baima sites.南京校区目前不再招收本科新生，其教学任务已分散到淮安与白马两个校区。
• The three sites together give the university a city-centre research campus, a northern teaching campus and a large suburban campus opened in 2024.三个校区共同构成了市中心的研究型校园、苏北的教学校区与 2024 年启用的大型郊区校园。
• The old library building of the Xinzhuang campus appears on the revised university emblem adopted after the 2012 anniversary.新庄校区的老图书馆建筑，被绘入 2012 年校庆后正式更换的校徽图案之中。

Reputation

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities placed NJFU in the 401-500 band in 2026.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将南京林业大学列入第 401-500 名区间。
• Times Higher Education placed it in the 651-700 band for 2027, and U.S. News ranked it 386th for 2026-2027, its highest position in any of the rankings.泰晤士高等教育将其列入 2027 年第 651-700 名区间；《美国新闻与世界报道》在 2026 至 2027 年度将其列为第 386 名，是该校在各榜单中的最高位次。
• The university did not enter the QS World University Rankings 2027, and it does not appear in that table's Chinese university group.学校未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名，也未出现在该榜的中国高校之列。
• Its standing rests on forestry and forest products, fields in which it was one of only three higher forestry institutions in mainland China at its founding in 1952.学校的声望建立在林学与林产之上：1952 年建校时，它是中国大陆仅有的三所高等林业院校之一。
• The discovery and naming of Metasequoia by Zheng Wanjun in the 1940s is treated by the university as one of the most important botanical discoveries of the twentieth century, and cultivation of the tree spread across China after the find.郑万钧在 1940 年代发现并定名水杉，学校将其视为二十世纪最重要的植物学发现之一；水杉被发现后，栽培遍及大江南北。
• Double First-Class status, granted on a first-class discipline basis rather than a whole-university basis, reflects the specialised character of its research profile.学校以一流学科而非整校身份进入「双一流」，这反映了其科研结构的专门化特征。
• Co-building by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration gives it a direct channel to national forestry policy and to the administration's research priorities.由国家林业和草原局共建，使学校与国家林业政策及主管部门的研究重点保持直接联系。
• The Bamboo Research Institute, founded in 1984, is described by the university as the earliest and most comprehensive centre for bamboo biology in China.成立于 1984 年的竹类研究所，被学校称为中国最早、研究领域最齐全的竹类生物学中心。
• Jiangsu Province includes the university in its high-level university construction programme, which funds disciplines selected for provincial priority.江苏省将学校纳入高水平大学建设计划，对入选的省级优先学科给予经费支持。

Student life

• The school song, For Green Water and Blue Hills, was composed by Tao Siyao with lyrics revised collectively and released on 31 December 2013.校歌《为了碧水青山》由作曲家陶思耀谱曲，歌词经集体修改，于 2013 年 12 月 31 日正式发布。
• Its lyrics invoke the Zhongshan ridge, Xuanwu Lake, the green cradle of a century-old forestry school and the ambition to write a chapter for a beautiful China.歌词写到钟山、玄武湖、「百年南林，绿色的摇篮」，以及为美丽中国书写篇章的志向。
• The university ethos is summarised in four words: unity, simplicity, diligence and enterprise, a formulation used in student handbooks and ceremonies.校风概括为「团结、朴实、勤奋、进取」四个词，常见于学生手册与各类典礼。
• The emblem, adopted in 1992 and designed by Zhang Shijing of the landscape architecture department, uses a Metasequoia leaf and cone with the English abbreviation.校徽于 1992 年采用，由园林学系张世经老师设计，由水杉叶、水杉球果与学校英文缩写组成。
• The foliage and cone are meant to keep Zheng Wanjun's patriotism and commitment to science before later generations, and to suggest teaching and research putting down deep roots and bearing abundant fruit.水杉叶与球果寓意让后人缅怀郑万钧热爱祖国、献身科学与教育的精神，也象征学校教学、科研与人才培养根深叶茂、硕果累累。
• The Metasequoia motif commemorates Zheng Wanjun, and the 2012 revision replaced the cone with an outline of the old library building while keeping the leaf and the abbreviation.水杉图案用于纪念郑万钧；2012 年改版时保留水杉叶与英文缩写，把球果换成老图书馆的简图。
• First-year students begin on the Huai'an or Baima campus and move to Xinzhuang for their later years, so most undergraduates change city during their degree.新生先在淮安或白马校区就读，高年级转入新庄校区，多数本科生因此在求学期间转换城市。
• Physical education is organised by a separate physical education department, one of the 23 teaching units listed by the university.体育教学由独立的体育教育部承担，该部是学校列出的 23 个院（部）之一。
• The anniversary on 7 October is marked as the founding day of the East China Forestry College, and the university counts its history from that 1952 date.10 月 7 日校庆日以华东林学院成立之日为准，学校校史即从 1952 年这一节点起算。

Notable people

• Zheng Wanjun, the first president, was the botanist who discovered and named Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood known as a living fossil.首任校长郑万钧是发现并定名水杉的植物学家，水杉被称为「活化石」。
• Wang Mingxiu served as president from 1984 to 1993, helping to rebuild the university's research after the restoration of its forestry name.王明庥于 1984 年至 1993 年任校长，在校名恢复后参与重建学校的科研体系。
• Cao Fuliang was president from 2010 to 2017, and Wang Hao held the post from 2017 to 2022.曹福亮于 2010 年至 2017 年任校长，王浩于 2017 年至 2022 年继任。
• Yong Qiang has been president since 2022 and leads the university during the opening of the Baima campus.勇强自 2022 年起任校长，任内白马校区投入使用。
• Yu Shiyuan was president from 1997 to 2010, the longest recent tenure, and Zhao Qiseng from 1993 to 1997.余世袁于 1997 年至 2010 年任校长，是近期任职最久的一位；赵奇僧于 1993 年至 1997 年任校长。
• Ma Dapu was president from 1979 to 1984 and Li Li from 1973 to 1979, spanning the years when the college was renamed twice.马大浦于 1979 年至 1984 年任校长，李力于 1973 年至 1979 年任校长，正值学校两度更名之际。
• Wang Xintian served as president from 1962 to 1968 and also as party secretary in two later periods, 1958-1968 and 1979-1981.王心田于 1962 年至 1968 年任校长，并先后在 1958 至 1968 年、1979 至 1981 年担任党委书记。
• Zhang Shijing, a teacher in the landscape architecture department, designed the university emblem adopted in 1992.园林学系教师张世经设计了 1992 年采用的校徽。
• Tao Siyao, a composer, wrote the music for the school song released at the end of 2013.作曲家陶思耀为 2013 年底发布的校歌谱曲。
• Zhu Qiluan was the college's first party secretary from 1952 to 1954, and Yang Zhiping held the post from 1955 to 1957.朱启銮于 1952 年至 1954 年任学校首任党委书记，杨致平于 1955 年至 1957 年继任。