Northeast Forestry University

Northeast Forestry University is a public university in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, administered by the Ministry of Education and jointly built with the National Forestry and Grassland Administration and the Heilongjiang provincial government.东北林业大学是位于黑龙江省哈尔滨市的公办大学，由教育部直属，并与国家林业和草原局、黑龙江省人民政府共建。

Founded in 1952 from the forestry departments of Zhejiang University's agricultural college and of Northeast Agricultural College, it is one of the three oldest forestry institutions in China and the largest forestry university in the country.学校 1952 年由浙江大学农学院森林系与东北农学院森林系合并组建，是中国三所历史最悠久的林业院校之一，也是中国规模最大的林业大学。

It sits in the 401-500 band of the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 and 1,061st in the U.S. News global ranking for 2026-2027, while appearing in neither the Times Higher Education ranking nor the QS ranking for 2027.学校在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 401-500 名区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学排名中位列第 1061 名，未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名。

History

• The university was created in 1952 by combining the forestry department of Zhejiang University's College of Agriculture with the forestry department of Northeast Agricultural College in Harbin.1952 年，浙江大学农学院森林系与位于哈尔滨的东北农学院森林系合并，组建了这所学校。
• Liu Chengdong served as the first president from 1952 to 1963, heading the institution while it was still a forestry college.刘成栋于 1952 年至 1963 年担任首任校长，在学校尚为林学院的时期主持校务。
• The two founding departments gave the college both a southern and a northern lineage, linking it to Hangzhou through Zhejiang University and to Harbin through Northeast Agricultural College.两个建校系科使学院同时拥有南方与北方两条学脉，一条经浙江大学连至杭州，一条经东北农学院落在哈尔滨。
• Graduate admissions began in 1954, only two years after the college was founded, an early sign of its research orientation.学校于 1954 年开始招收研究生，距建校仅两年，显示出较早的研究导向。
• Yang Xianjin led the college from 1979 to 1983, a period in which teaching and research resumed after the disruptions of the previous decade.杨衔晋于 1979 年至 1983 年主持校务，这一时期学校的教学与科研在经历前十年的中断后逐步恢复。
• In 1981 the State Council approved the college as one of the first institutions authorised to award doctoral and master's degrees.1981 年，学校被国务院批准为首批具有博士、硕士学位授予权的单位之一。
• Xiu Guohan served as president from 1983 to 1989, first as head of the forestry college and then of the new university.修国翰于 1983 年至 1989 年担任校长，先后主持林学院与更名后的林业大学。
• The Northeast Forestry College was renamed Northeast Forestry University in 1985, a change that recognised its expansion beyond a single forestry faculty.1985 年，东北林学院更名为东北林业大学，这一更名标志着学校已不再局限于单一的林科门类。
• Zhu Guoxi was president from 1990 to 1995, and Li Jian, a wood scientist, held the post from 1996 to 2007.朱国玺于 1990 年至 1995 年任校长，木材科学家李坚于 1996 年至 2007 年接任。
• In 2005 the university entered Project 211, the national programme that concentrated funding on a selected group of key universities.2005 年，学校进入国家「211 工程」，该工程把经费集中投向一批重点建设高校。
• The Ministry of Education rated its undergraduate teaching as excellent in 2007, the highest grade in the national evaluation of that period, in the same year that Yang Chuanping became president.2007 年，学校以「优秀」成绩通过教育部本科教学工作水平评估，这是当时该项评估的最高等级，同年杨传平出任校长。
• Yang Chuanping was president from 2007 to 2017, and Li Bin held the post from 2017 to 2023.杨传平于 2007 年至 2017 年任校长，李斌于 2017 年至 2023 年接任。
• At the end of 2009 a fourth Ministry of Education key laboratory, on the restoration of saline-alkali vegetation in the northeast oilfields, was approved for construction.2009 年底，「东北油田盐碱植被恢复与重建」实验室获批立项建设，成为学校第四个教育部重点实验室。
• In 2011 the State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding was approved, the first national key laboratory in China's forestry sector.2011 年，林木遗传育种国家重点实验室获批立项建设，成为中国林业行业首个国家重点实验室。
• In September 2017 the university was listed in the Double First-Class Construction, with forestry engineering and forestry as its world-class disciplines.2017 年 9 月，学校入选国家「双一流」建设高校，林业工程与林学为其世界一流建设学科。
• Song Wenlong became president in 2023, and the university's Double First-Class status was confirmed again in the 2022 round of the programme.宋文龙于 2023 年出任校长，学校的「双一流」建设资格在 2022 年新一轮名单中得到确认。
• Its Maoershan experimental forest farm has been managed scientifically for more than four decades and now serves as a demonstration forest for sustainable management in China.学校的帽儿山实验林场经过四十多年的科学经营，如今已成为中国林业可持续经营的示范林场。
• The Liangshui experimental forest farm in the Lesser Khingan mountains was designated a nature reserve by the forestry ministry and preserves the most complete climax vegetation of eastern Manchuria.位于小兴安岭的凉水实验林场被林业部列为自然保护区，保存着东北东部山区最完整的地带性顶极植被。
• In 2010 the university won more National Natural Science Foundation projects, and more funding, than any other forestry university in China.2010 年，学校获批的国家自然科学基金项目数量与资助金额均创下新高，在中国林业院校中位居首位。
• The university marked its seventieth anniversary in 2022, seventy years after the merger of the two forestry departments that created it.2022 年，学校迎来建校七十周年，距两个森林系合并建校恰好七十年。

Academics

• Forestry is the university's leading field and forestry engineering its distinctive speciality, with programmes also spanning agriculture, science, engineering, economics, management, the humanities and law.学校以林学为优势、以林业工程为特色，学科还覆盖农、理、工、经、管、文、法等领域。
• The university's current structure comprises 22 colleges and departments, among them Forestry, Wildlife and Protected Areas, Life Sciences, Landscape Architecture, Materials Science and Engineering, Civil Engineering and Transportation, and Economics and Management.学校现设 22 个学院与教学部，包括林学院、野生动物与自然保护地学院、生命科学学院、园林学院、材料科学与工程学院、土木与交通学院、经济管理学院等。
• It offers 68 undergraduate programmes, of which 19 are national first-class undergraduate programme points.学校开设 68 个本科专业，其中 19 个为国家级一流本科专业建设点。
• Graduate education runs through eight first-level doctoral disciplines, 21 first-level master's disciplines, 17 categories of professional master's degrees, nine postdoctoral research stations and one postdoctoral work station.研究生教育涵盖 8 个一级学科博士点、21 个一级学科硕士点、17 个类别的专业学位硕士点、9 个博士后科研流动站以及 1 个博士后科研工作站。
• Forestry and forestry engineering are first-level national key disciplines, together covering ten second-level disciplines that run from tree genetics and breeding, silviculture, forest protection, forest management and wildlife conservation to ornamental plants, soil and water conservation, forest engineering and chemical processing of forest products.林学与林业工程为一级学科国家重点学科，共涵盖 10 个二级学科，从林木遗传育种、森林培育、森林保护学、森林经理学、野生动植物保护与利用，一直延伸到园林植物与观赏园艺、水土保持与荒漠化防治、森林工程与林产化学加工工程。
• Botany and ecology are national key disciplines at the second level, and six disciplines are key disciplines of the national forestry administration.植物学与生态学为二级学科国家重点学科，另有 6 个学科为国家林业局重点学科。
• Heilongjiang Province designates one key discipline group and seven first-level key disciplines at the university, including biology, forestry engineering and agricultural and forestry economics and management, along with second-level disciplines such as population, resources and environmental economics, polymer chemistry and physics, cell biology and biomaterial engineering.黑龙江省在学校设立 1 个省重点学科群和 7 个省重点一级学科，包括生物学、林业工程、农林经济管理等，另有省级重点二级学科如人口资源与环境经济学、高分子化学与物理、细胞生物学与生物材料工程。
• The State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding anchors research on forest genetics, and it remains the only national key laboratory in the Chinese forestry sector.林木遗传育种国家重点实验室是学校林木遗传研究的核心平台，至今仍是中国林业行业唯一的国家重点实验室。
• Four Ministry of Education key laboratories work on forest plant ecology, bio-based materials science and technology, forest tree genetic improvement and biotechnology, and saline-alkali vegetation restoration, and the forest plant ecology laboratory alone holds 66 precision instruments worth more than 12 million yuan.学校有 4 个教育部重点实验室，分别研究森林植物生态学、生物质材料科学与技术、林木遗传育种与生物技术以及盐碱植被恢复与重建，其中森林植物生态学实验室拥有精密仪器 66 台（件），总值 1200 余万元。
• Four laboratories of the national forestry administration cover wood science and engineering, northeast forest resource cultivation, forest pest biology and wildlife conservation biology.国家林业局重点实验室有 4 个，覆盖木材科学与工程、东北森林资源培育、森林病虫害生物学与野生动物保护生物学。
• The Maoershan forest ecosystem research station is a national field observation station, and the university runs 49 research institutes in total.帽儿山森林生态系统定位站为国家野外科学观测重点台站，学校共设有 49 个研究机构。
• Five disciplines enter the top one percent of the Essential Science Indicators: plant and animal science, agricultural sciences, chemistry, materials science and engineering.植物学与动物学、农业科学、化学、材料科学与工程等 5 个学科进入基本科学指标数据库全球前 1%。
• The university employs about 2,600 staff, including 1,269 full-time teachers, two academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, five Changjiang distinguished professors and three Changjiang young scholars.学校有教职工约 2600 人，其中专任教师 1269 人，并拥有 2 位中国工程院院士、「长江学者」特聘教授 5 人与青年学者 3 人。
• Its student body of more than 26,000 includes 19,463 undergraduates and 6,934 postgraduate students, and it has produced nearly 180,000 graduates since 1952.学校各类学生超过 2.6 万人，其中本科生 19463 人、研究生 6934 人，自 1952 年以来已培养近 18 万名毕业生。
• Two national training bases, one for life science and technology and one for basic science teaching in biology, were approved by the national planning commission and the Ministry of Education.学校设有国家生命科学与技术人才培养基地，以及教育部批准的国家理科基础科学研究和教学人才培养基地（生物学）。
• The university publishes seven periodicals, including the Journal of Northeast Forestry University, Journal of Forestry Research, Bulletin of Botanical Research, Wildlife and Forest Engineering.学校主办 7 种期刊，包括《东北林业大学学报》《林业研究》《植物研究》《野生动物》与《森林工程》。
• Forestry engineering and forestry are its world-class disciplines, while biology, ecology, landscape architecture and agricultural and forestry economics and management are provincial first-class disciplines.林业工程与林学为世界一流建设学科，生物学、生态学、风景园林、农林经济管理为国内一流建设学科。
• Teaching is organised through a graduate school, the colleges and a separate physical education department, with field practice built into forestry and wildlife programmes.教学由研究生院、各学院以及独立的体育教学部组织，林学与野生动物类专业均安排野外实习。
• Two Heilongjiang key laboratories, one on tree genetics and breeding and one on wood resource materials science and technology, extend the laboratory network into provincial priorities.学校有 2 个黑龙江省重点实验室，分别研究林木遗传育种与木质资源材料科学与技术，把实验平台延伸到省级重点方向。
• Seven laboratories of the provincial education department cover tree breeding, wildlife conservation, northeast forest cultivation, forest protection, forest products chemical engineering, polymer materials and plant medicine.黑龙江省教育厅重点实验室有 7 个，覆盖林木遗传育种、野生动物保护、东北森林资源培育、森林保护、林产化学工程、高分子新材料与植物药等领域。
• The university's economics research institute is designated a provincial humanities and social science research base by the Heilongjiang education department.学校的经济研究所被黑龙江省教育厅列为高校人文社会科学重点研究基地。
• Among its 49 research institutes are the Daqing Biotechnology Research Institute and the Plant Resource Ecology and Molecular Engineering Research Institute.在 49 个研究机构中，包括东北林业大学大庆生物技术研究院与植物资源生态与分子工程研究院。
• Within forestry engineering, doctoral training covers forest engineering, wood science and technology, and chemical processing engineering of forest products.在林业工程一级学科之下，博士培养覆盖森林工程、木材科学与技术、林产化学加工工程三个二级学科。

Campus

• The campus lies in Xiangfang District in Harbin, formerly the Dongli District, at the centre of the region holding China's largest state-owned forests.校园位于哈尔滨市香坊区（原动力区），地处中国最大国有林区的中心地带。
• The Harbin campus covers more than 136 hectares, with teaching buildings, research laboratories and practice sites on a single site.哈尔滨校区占地 136 公顷以上，教学楼、科研实验室与实习场地集中于同一校园。
• Together with its field stations the university holds about 33,000 hectares, making it the second largest university by land area in China.连同所属林场，学校占地面积约 3.3 万公顷，是中国占地面积第二大的大学。
• The Maoershan National Forest Park covers 26,400 hectares in the Zhangguangcai range of the Changbai mountains and is dominated by natural secondary forest and conifer plantations.帽儿山国家森林公园位于长白山系张广才岭，面积 26400 公顷，植被以天然次生林和针叶人工林为主。
• The Liangshui National Nature Reserve covers 6,394 hectares in the Lesser Khingan mountains and is one of China's most important bases for Korean pine research.凉水国家级自然保护区位于小兴安岭，面积 6394 公顷，是中国红松林研究最重要的基地之一。
• A third base, the Harbin urban forestry demonstration site, supports teaching and research on trees within cities.第三个基地是哈尔滨城市林业示范基地，服务于城市林木相关的教学与研究。
• The library gained a second building in 2007, becoming a twin library with the largest collection and floor area in Heilongjiang Province.图书馆于 2007 年增建 B 楼，形成双子图书馆格局，其藏书量与建筑面积均居黑龙江省首位。
• The university's gymnasium and swimming pool are described as the largest and most advanced of their kind in Heilongjiang.学校的体育馆与游泳馆被称为黑龙江省内规模最大、设施最先进的同类场馆。
• Fifteen dormitories and a single dining hall serve more than 20,000 undergraduates, giving the campus a population density higher than most Chinese universities.校内 15 栋宿舍楼与一座食堂服务于两万余名本科生，人口密度高于中国多数高校。
• Nine practice sites inside the university and 180 external bases support fieldwork in forestry, wildlife management and engineering.校内有 9 个实习基地，校外还有 180 个基地，支撑林学、野生动物管理与工程类专业的野外实践。
• Because most of its land lies in distant forest stations, the built campus in Harbin is compact, and its fifteen dormitories house a dense undergraduate population.由于大部分土地位于偏远的林场，哈尔滨的建成校园相对紧凑，15 栋宿舍楼容纳了密度很高的本科生群体。

Reputation

• The Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places the university in the 401-500 band, among the world's top 500 institutions.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将学校列入第 401-500 名区间，位居全球前 500 所高校之列。
• The U.S. News global ranking for 2026-2027 places it 1,061st.2026 至 2027 年度《美国新闻与世界报道》全球大学排名将学校列在第 1061 名。
• The university does not appear in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 or in the QS World University Rankings 2027.学校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，也未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名。
• It has been part of Project 211 since 2005 and of the Double First-Class Construction since 2017, with that status confirmed in the 2022 round.学校自 2005 年起进入「211 工程」，自 2017 年起进入「双一流」建设，并在 2022 年新一轮名单中确认了建设资格。
• It is the largest forestry university in China and holds more national key disciplines than any other forestry institution in the country.学校是中国规模最大的林业大学，其国家重点学科数量在中国林业院校中位居首位。
• The State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding is the only national key laboratory in the Chinese forestry sector, a distinction the university emphasises in its profile.林木遗传育种国家重点实验室是中国林业行业唯一的国家重点实验室，学校在简介中特别强调了这一地位。
• The university is affiliated with the Ministry of Education and co-built by the Ministry of Education, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration and Heilongjiang Province.学校隶属教育部，由教育部、国家林业和草原局与黑龙江省三方共建。
• Its 2010 performance in National Natural Science Foundation competitions placed it first among Chinese forestry universities in both project numbers and funding.2010 年，学校在国家自然科学基金项目数量与资助金额两方面均居中国林业院校首位。
• With 22 colleges, 68 undergraduate programmes and five disciplines in the ESI top one percent, it combines a narrow forestry identity with a broad research base.学校拥有 22 个学院、68 个本科专业与 5 个进入基本科学指标数据库前 1% 的学科，在鲜明的林科特色之外形成了较宽的研究基础。
• Its current profile reports more than 31,000 students across 22 colleges, a figure that has grown from the 26,000 recorded in earlier official descriptions.学校现行简介称在校学生超过 3.1 万人，分布于 22 个学院，这一数字较早年官方资料记载的 2.6 万人有所增长。

Student life

• Undergraduate residence is concentrated in fifteen dormitories served by one dining hall, a layout that makes the campus socially dense.本科生住宿集中在 15 栋宿舍楼，日常餐饮由一座食堂承担，校园生活因此高度集中。
• The gymnasium and swimming pool are the largest in Heilongjiang Province and host both physical education classes and inter-college competitions.体育馆与游泳馆为黑龙江省内规模最大，既承担体育课，也承办院际比赛。
• The twin library, with its second building opened in 2007, is the largest university library in the province by collection and floor area.双子图书馆的 B 楼于 2007 年启用，其藏书规模与建筑面积均为黑龙江省高校图书馆之最。
• Forestry and wildlife students spend part of their degree at Maoershan and Liangshui, where field courses cover silviculture, wildlife survey and forest ecology.林学与野生动物类专业的学生有一部分学业在帽儿山与凉水完成，野外课程涵盖森林培育、野生动物调查与森林生态。
• The Chinese Training Center of Northeast Forestry University teaches oral Chinese, listening, writing and literature at basic to advanced levels and prepares students for the HSK examination.东北林业大学汉语培训中心开设初级至高级的汉语口语、听力、写作与文学课程，并为学生提供汉语水平考试辅导。
• Exchange agreements let students study in Finland, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Britain and Australia, among them Helsinki, Turku, Waseda, Kangwon, Mississippi State and Bangor.校际交换协议使学生可赴芬兰、日本、韩国、美国、英国与澳大利亚学习，合作院校包括赫尔辛基大学、图尔库大学、早稻田大学、江原大学、密西西比州立大学与班戈大学。
• The university's location in Harbin gives students access to a city whose winter ice festival and forest hinterland shape the rhythm of the academic year.学校所在的哈尔滨拥有冰雪节与广阔的森林腹地，这两者共同塑造了学年生活的节奏。

Notable people

• Ma Jianzhang is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a specialist in wildlife ecology and resource management at the university.马建章是中国工程院院士，也是学校野生动物生态与资源管理领域的专家。
• Li Jian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an authority on wood science, served as president from 1996 to 2007.李坚是中国工程院院士、木材科学领域的知名学者，1996 年至 2007 年担任校长。
• Song Zhanqian is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering working on forestry engineering and the chemical processing of forest products.宋湛谦是中国工程院院士，研究方向为林业工程与林产化学加工。
• Tang Shouzheng is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering known for forest management and forest statistics.唐守正是中国工程院院士，以森林经理与林业统计学研究著称。
• Fang Zhiyuan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, works on vegetable genetics and breeding.方智远是中国工程院院士，从事蔬菜遗传育种研究。
• Sun Tieheng is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in pollution ecology and environmental engineering.孙铁珩是中国工程院院士，研究领域为污染生态学与环境工程。
• Feng Zongwei is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering specialising in ecology.冯宗炜是中国工程院院士，专长于生态学。
• Xia Xianzhu is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in animal pathology.夏咸柱是中国工程院院士，研究动物病理学。
• Wan Gang, a graduate of the university, served as Minister of Science and Technology and as vice chairman of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.万钢是学校校友，曾任科学技术部部长与第十二届全国政协副主席。
• Zhang Yi, another graduate, served as party secretary and director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.张毅同为学校校友，曾任国务院国有资产监督管理委员会党委书记、主任。
• Among its recent presidents, Yang Chuanping led the university from 2007 to 2017 and Li Bin from 2017 to 2023, with Song Wenlong taking office in 2023.在历任校长中，杨传平于 2007 年至 2017 年、李斌于 2017 年至 2023 年主持校务，宋文龙于 2023 年接任。