Northwest A&F University

Northwest A&F University is a national key university in Yangling, Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, China, directly administered by the Ministry of Education, and it is placed in the 731-740 band of the 2027 QS World University Rankings.西北农林科技大学是一所位于中国陕西省咸阳市杨陵区（杨凌农业高新技术产业示范区）的全国重点大学，直属教育部，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 731-740 区间。

It was founded in 1934 as the National Northwest Junior College of Agriculture and Forestry, the first agricultural institution of higher education in north-western China, and it was formed in its present shape on 11 September 1999 by merging seven research and teaching bodies.该校始建于 1934 年，初名国立西北农林专科学校，是中国西北地区第一所农业高等院校；1999 年 9 月 11 日，由七所科研与教学单位合并组建为现今的大学。

It is a Double First-Class university that was formerly part of the 985 and 211 projects, its OpenAlex record lists 63,389 research works and 7,054,907 citations, and it is 281st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities.该校是「双一流」建设高校，并曾列入「985 工程」与「211 工程」；其 OpenAlex 记录列有研究成果 63,389 项、被引 7,054,907 次，并在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 281。

History

• The university's origin is the National Northwest Junior College of Agriculture and Forestry, founded in 1934, the first higher agricultural institution in north-western China.该校的前身是 1934 年创办的国立西北农林专科学校，是中国西北地区第一所高等农业院校。

• In October 1932 the central executive committee of the Kuomintang passed a proposal by Dai Jitao and Yu Youren to prepare specialised education for the north-west, creating a preparatory committee.1932 年 10 月，国民党中央执行委员会通过戴季陶、于右任等人「筹建建设西北专门教育初期计划」议案，并成立筹建委员会。

• That committee was renamed the following December to prepare the National Northwest Junior College of Agriculture and Forestry, and its fifteen members included Yu Youren, Zhang Ji, Dai Jitao, Wang Shijie, Zhu Jiahua and Yang Hucheng.该委员会于同年 12 月更名为建设国立西北农林专科学校筹建委员会，其十五名委员包括于右任、张继、戴季陶、王世杰、朱家骅与杨虎城。

• Dai Jitao took charge of selecting the site and of preparations, and his essay On the Northwest Agricultural and Forestry Education set out a systematic view of education in the region.戴季陶具体主持校址选择与筹建事务，其所著《关于西北农林教育之所见》系统阐述了西北教育工作的办学思想。

• On 20 April 1934 the foundation stone of the teaching building, now Building 3 on the north campus, was laid in a ceremony at which Dai Jitao gave the address proclaiming the college open.1934 年 4 月 20 日，国立西北农林专科学校教学大楼（今北校区 3 号教学楼）奠基，戴季陶到会祝词，宣告学校正式成立。

• The college name written in Dai Jitao's own hand still survives on the lintel of that building, which is a protected cultural relic and also served as the campus clock tower.戴季陶题写的「国立西北农林专科学校」校名至今仍存于该楼门楣上；该楼为受保护文物，并兼有钟楼功能。

• The building's hourly chime was restored at the start of the spring semester in 2018, and the north campus retains several other buildings from the republican period.该楼的整点报时于 2018 年春季学期开学时恢复，北校区还保留若干民国时期建筑。

• A forestry department was created in 1934 within the college, and it later became the separate Northwest Forestry College, which was split off in 1979.学院于 1934 年设森林系，该系后来发展为独立的西北林学院，并于 1979 年从学校分出。

• In 1938 the National Northwest Junior College of Agriculture and Forestry, the agricultural college of National Northwest Associated University and the animal husbandry department of National Henan University merged to form the National Northwest Agricultural College.1938 年，国立西北农林专科学校、国立西北联合大学农学院与国立河南大学农学院畜牧系合并，成立国立西北农学院。

• The institution took the name Northwest Agricultural College in 1949 and became Northwest Agricultural University in October 1985.该校于 1949 年更名为西北农学院，并于 1985 年 10 月更名为西北农业大学。

• A soil and water conservation institute was founded in 1956 as the Northwest Agricultural Biology Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and it was renamed several times before taking its present name in 1995.一个水土保持研究机构于 1956 年以中国科学院西北农业生物研究所之名成立，此后数度更名，并于 1995 年定名为中国科学院·水利部水土保持研究所。

• A Northwest Botany Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was split off from that institute in 1965, becoming one of the seven bodies later merged into the university.1965 年，中国科学院西北植物研究所自该所分出，成为后来并入该校的七家单位之一。

• A Shaanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences was established in 1983 from the Northwest Agricultural Science Institute, which had earlier been known as the Shaanxi branch of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and then as the Shaanxi Academy of Agriculture and Forestry.陕西省农业科学院于 1983 年由西北农业科学研究所改设而来，后者此前曾称中国农业科学院陕西分院与陕西省农林科学院。

• On 11 September 1999, Li Lanqing, then vice-premier of China, announced at Yangling the merger of five research institutions and two universities into Northwest A&F University, the first mainland Chinese university formed that way.1999 年 9 月 11 日，时任国务院副总理李岚清在杨凌宣布把当地五所科研机构与两所高等学校合并成立西北农林科技大学，这是中国大陆第一所由大学与科研所合并组建的高等学校。

• The merged bodies were Northwest Agricultural University, Northwest Forestry College, the soil and water conservation institute, the Northwest Water Conservancy Science Institute, and the Shaanxi academies of agriculture and forestry along with the northwest botany institute.参与合并的机构包括西北农业大学、西北林学院、中科院·水利部水土保持研究所、水利部西北水利科学研究所、陕西省农业科学院、陕西省林业科学院与陕西省·中国科学院西北植物研究所。

• The new university is directly administered by the Ministry of Education and jointly built by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Forestry Administration, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shaanxi provincial government.新大学直属教育部，并由教育部、农业部、国家林业局、水利部、科学技术部、中国科学院与陕西省人民政府共同建设。

• Chen Zongxing was appointed its first president and Sun Wuxue its first party secretary, and the university set itself the goal of building a world-class agricultural university with close links between teaching, research and production.陈宗兴受聘任首任校长，孙武学任首任党委书记；学校将目标定位为「突出产学研紧密结合办学特色、创建世界一流农业大学」。

• It was permitted to pilot a graduate school in 2003 and formally established one in 2007, becoming one of the fifty-six Chinese universities with a graduate school.该校 2003 年获准试办研究生院，2007 年正式设立，成为中国设有研究生院的五十六所高校之一。

• It is a Ministry of Education directly administered university and was among the first group selected for the national world-class university and discipline construction list.该校为教育部直属高校，并首批入选国家「世界一流大学和一流学科建设」名单。

Academics

• The university's strengths lie in agriculture, forestry and water, with particular depth in crop genetics and breeding, agricultural water conservancy engineering and soil and water conservation.该校的优势在农、林、水领域，尤其在作物遗传育种、农业水利工程与水土保持方面积累深厚。

• Further strengths include animal medicine, livestock feeding and breeding, silviculture, food science, plant protection and agricultural economic management.其进一步的优势还包括动物医学、家畜饲养与繁殖、森林培育、食品科学、植物保护与农业经济管理。

• It holds seven national key disciplines: plant pathology, soil science, agricultural water and soil engineering, clinical veterinary medicine, pomology, animal genetics breeding and reproduction, and agricultural economic management.该校拥有七个国家级重点学科：植物病理学、土壤学、农业水土工程、临床兽医学、果树学、动物遗传育种与繁殖、农业经济管理。

• Two further disciplines, crop genetics and breeding and agricultural entomology and pest control, are national key disciplines under cultivation.另有作物遗传育种与农业昆虫与害虫防治两个国家重点（培育）学科。

• It operates two national key laboratories, on soil erosion and dryland farming on the Loess Plateau and on stress biology of crops in arid regions.该校设有两个国家重点实验室，分别是黄土高原土壤侵蚀与旱地农业国家重点实验室与旱区作物逆境生物学国家重点实验室。

• Further provision includes a provincial and ministerial base for a national key laboratory in agricultural molecular biology in Shaanxi, fifteen other ministerial and provincial key laboratories, eighteen national and ministerial research or engineering centres and three national field stations.此外还设有省部共建国家重点实验室培育基地——陕西省农业分子生物学重点实验室、另外十五个部省级重点实验室、十八个国家与部省级研究中心或工程技术研究中心，以及三个国家野外台（站）。

• In the six renewals of wheat varieties in China's Huang-Huai wheat region, four used varieties bred by the university, and the variety Bima No. 1 bred by the academician Zhao Hongzhang was planted over ninety million mu.中国黄淮麦区小麦品种六次更新换代中，有四次选用该校培育的品种；赵洪璋院士选育的小麦品种「碧玛一号」推广面积高达九千万亩。

• The apple variety Qinguan, also bred at the university, once had the largest planted area of any apple variety in China, and the Xinnong Saanen dairy goat is known nationally for high yield and adaptability.该校培育的苹果品种「秦冠」推广面积曾居全国首位；引进选育的奶山羊品种「西农莎能奶山羊」以产奶量高、适应性强而闻名全国。

• Its research on wheat stripe rust leads the country, and the discipline of plant pathology is a national key discipline, while the university also established China's first college of viticulture within the wine industry.其小麦条锈病研究居于国家前列，其所在学科植物病理学为国家重点学科；该校还设有中国葡萄酒酿造行业首家葡萄酒学院。

• The watermelon variety Xinnong No. 8, bred by Professor Wang Ming, became the main open-field watermelon variety in northern China, and the university's 28-character strategy for land improvement on the Loess Plateau has been widely adopted.由王鸣教授选育的西瓜品种「西农 8 号」成为北方露地西瓜主栽品种；该校提出的黄土高原国土整治「28 字方略」已被广泛采用。

• As of January 2021 nine disciplines entered the top one per cent of the global Essential Science Indicators, including agricultural sciences, plant and animal science, engineering, environment and ecology, chemistry and biology.截至 2021 年 1 月，该校有农业科学、植物与动物学、工程学、环境科学与生态学、化学、生物学与生物化学、药理学与毒理学、分子生物学与遗传学等九个学科进入全球基本科学指标前 1%。

• Agricultural sciences and plant and animal science both entered the top one per thousand globally, and by citation count the university ranked 51st among Chinese research institutions.其中农业科学与植物学与动物学两个学科进入全球前 1‰；按引用次数，该校在中国科研机构中排名第 51。

• In global subject rankings its agricultural sciences placed thirtieth in the world in the U.S. News subject table, reflecting the concentration of its research in that field.在学科排名中，其农业科学在 US News 学科榜中位列全球第 30，反映其研究在该领域的集中度。

• A study on the efficiency of breeding research by its faculty was published in Nature in March 2022, addressing plant breeding and the commercial breeding industry in China.2022 年 3 月，其教师关于育种研究效率的论文发表于《自然》，讨论中国植物育种与商业育种产业问题。

• OpenAlex attributes 63,389 works and 7,054,907 citations to the institution, one of the largest research outputs among Chinese agricultural universities.OpenAlex 记录该校 63,389 项成果与 7,054,907 次被引，是中国农业类大学中科研产出最大者之一。

• Teaching is conducted mainly in Chinese, and the university runs programmes at bachelor's, master's and doctoral level across its colleges and research institutes.其教学主要以中文进行，各学院与研究所开设学士、硕士与博士层次的项目。

Campus

• The university occupies 44,730 mu in total, of which 5,657.21 mu is campus land, with built floor space of 1.5645 million square metres.该校总占地面积 44,730 亩，其中校园占地 5,657.21 亩，建筑面积 156.45 万平方米。

• The main campuses are the south and north campuses, while the colleges of food science and engineering and of water resources and architectural engineering and the soil and water conservation institute have their own sites.其主校区为南校区与北校区；食品科学与工程学院、水利与建筑工程学院与水土保持研究所则各有独立校区。

• Its geographic coordinates are approximately 34.27173 degrees north and 108.07891 degrees east, in the Guanzhong plain of Shaanxi Province.其地理坐标约为北纬 34.27173 度、东经 108.07891 度，位于陕西省关中平原。

• Off-campus research and teaching facilities include national field observation stations at Ansai, the Qinling forest ecosystem station and the Changwu farmland ecosystem station, together with forest farms, agronomic stations, breeding farms and an animal hospital.其校外研究与教学设施包括安塞农田生态系统国家野外科学观测研究站、陕西秦岭森林生态系统国家野外科学观测研究站与陕西长武农田生态系统国家野外科学观测研究站，以及林场、农作站、养殖场与动物医院。

• Building 3 on the north campus dates from the founding of the college in 1934, was funded by the national government and combines a clock tower with its teaching function.北校区 3 号教学楼建于 1934 年建校之时，由国民政府资助兴建，兼具钟楼与教学功能。

• An insect museum and an animal museum in the university's exhibition park were funded by the philanthropist Run Run Shaw and have become a national base for science education.其博览园内的昆虫馆与动物馆由慈善家邵逸夫捐资建设，现已成为国家科普教育基地。

• Two student activity centres, one on each of the south and north campuses, were funded by the Taiwanese entrepreneur Zhu Yinglong and named Xiushan after his father Zhu Xiushan, whose sculpture stands in the south campus hall.南北校区各有一座「绣山学生活动中心」，由台湾企业家朱英龙资助兴建，以其父朱绣山命名，南校区大厅内立有朱绣山先生雕塑。

• Building 8, the main teaching building, was thoroughly renovated in the summer of 2019, increasing the number of classrooms to 208 and adding smart classroom functions.主教学楼 8 号楼于 2019 年暑假彻底整修，教室总数增至 208 间，并增添智慧教室功能。

• After the 1999 merger, new buildings were added and older ones restored, including teaching buildings on both campuses, an international exchange centre with a research building, library and administration block, a standard sports ground and student hostels.1999 年合校后，学校新建并修缮了大量建筑，包括南北校区教学楼、含科研楼、图书馆与行政中心的国际交流中心建筑群、标准体育场与若干学生公寓。

• Yangling, where the campus stands, is a national agricultural high-tech industry demonstration zone, giving the university an unusually close relationship with agribusiness.校址所在的杨凌是国家农业高新技术产业示范区，使该校与农业产业界形成格外紧密的关系。

• The campus is served by research farms and orchards that supply material for teaching in crop science, horticulture and animal husbandry.校园周边的试验农场与果园为作物学、园艺学与畜牧学教学提供材料。

• The university's soil and water conservation institute keeps its own campus, reflecting its origin as a separate research institute absorbed in 1999.其水土保持研究所保留独立园区，反映其作为 1999 年并入的独立研究机构的出身。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings Northwest A&F University is placed in the 731-740 band, according to the official ranking table.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，西北农林科技大学处于 731-740 区间。此排名以官方榜单为准。

• It was 281st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities and placed in the 301-400 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities published by ShanghaiRanking.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列第 281；在软科发布的 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 301-400 区间。

• It was not placed in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。

• OpenAlex attributes 63,389 works and 7,054,907 citations to the institution, a citation total that is unusually high relative to its publication count for a specialised agricultural university.OpenAlex 记录该校 63,389 项成果与 7,054,907 次被引，对一所专精型农业大学而言，其被引总量相对论文数偏高。

• Its nine disciplines in the top one per cent of the Essential Science Indicators and two in the top one per thousand give it concentrated strength in agricultural and life sciences.其九个学科进入基本科学指标前 1%、两个进入前 1‰，使其在农业与生命科学领域形成集中优势。

• As a Double First-Class university and a former 985 and 211 institution, it is treated as the leading agricultural university of north-western China.作为「双一流」建设高校与原「985 工程」「211 工程」院校，它被视为中国西北地区领先的农业大学。

• Its research on wheat stripe rust, on Loess Plateau land improvement and on dryland farming is applied at national scale through breeding programmes and conservation strategies.其关于小麦条锈病、黄土高原国土整治与旱地农业的研究，通过育种计划与水土保持方略在全国范围应用。

• The university's two national key laboratories anchor its research reputation, and its provincial base for agricultural molecular biology supports work on crop genetics.其两个国家重点实验室支撑其研究声誉，省部共建的农业分子生物学培育基地则支撑作物遗传方面的研究。

• In the U.S. News subject table its agricultural sciences placed thirtieth in the world, the university's strongest single disciplinary position.在 US News 学科榜中，其农业科学位列全球第 30，是该大学最强的单一学科座次。

• Its standing is bound up with the national goal of developing China's north-west, a role reflected in its founding by the republican government in 1934 and its designation as a key university.其地位与中国开发西北的国家目标紧密相关，这一角色体现在 1934 年由民国政府创办及其被列为全国重点大学之上。

Student life

• The university's two student activity centres, both named Xiushan after the father of the donor Zhu Yinglong, are the hub of campus cultural life on the south and north campuses.该校两座名为「绣山」的学生活动中心（因捐赠者朱英龙之父朱绣山得名）是南北校区校园文化生活的中心。

• Those centres include activity rooms, multi-purpose halls and open spaces for clubs, performances, lectures and creative work, and serve more than thirty thousand students.中心内设活动室、多功能厅与用于社团、演出、讲座和创作的空间，服务三万余名学生。

• Built floor space of 1.5645 million square metres across the campuses accommodates teaching buildings, laboratories, libraries, student hostels and canteens, with Building 8 providing 208 classrooms after its 2019 renovation.各校区合计 156.45 万平方米的建筑面积容纳教学楼、实验室、图书馆、学生公寓与食堂，其中 8 号楼在 2019 年整修后设有 208 间教室。

• Student life is closely tied to agriculture: practical work on the university's farms, orchards and field stations forms part of the training for many programmes.其学生生活与农业紧密相连：在大学农场、果园与野外站点的实践作业是许多专业培养的一部分。

• The exhibition park with its insect and animal museums, designated a national science education base, gives students and the public access to collections built up over decades.设有昆虫馆与动物馆的博览园被命名为国家科普教育基地，使学生与公众得以接触数十年积累的标本收藏。

• The university press publishes the Journal of Northwest A&F University in natural science and social science editions, giving students and faculty a local outlet for research.其出版社出版《西北农林科技大学学报》自然科学版与社会科学版，为师生提供本地研究成果发表平台。

• Yangling's identity as an agricultural high-tech demonstration zone shapes the student experience, with industry placements in seed, viticulture and animal husbandry enterprises.杨凌作为农业高新技术示范区的定位影响学生的体验，实习机会分布于种业、葡萄酒与畜牧类企业。

• Because the university was formed from a merger of seven bodies, its student body spans programmes that were once taught in separate institutes and colleges.由于该校由七家单位合并而成，其学生群体分布于原先在彼此独立的院所与院校中开设的专业。

• Graduates work across Chinese agriculture, forestry, water conservancy, seed and food industries, and many take posts in the western provinces.其毕业生就业于中国农业、林业、水利、种业与食品产业，许多人进入西部各省就业。

• More than thirty of its alumni have been elected academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a notable tally for an agricultural university.其校友中有三十余人当选中国科学院或中国工程院院士，这对一所农业大学而言数量可观。

Notable people

• Li Zhensheng, a wheat breeder and geneticist at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an academician, worked for about thirty years at the institute later merged into the university.中国科学院遗传与发育生物学研究所研究员、小麦育种与遗传学家李振声院士，曾在后来并入该校的研究所工作约三十年。

• Li Zhensheng received the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award in 2006, the highest scientific honour in China.李振声于 2006 年获国家最高科学技术奖，这是中国的最高科学荣誉。

• Li Yizhi, who lived from 1882 to 1938, was a hydraulic engineer and pioneer of modern water conservancy in China who founded the Shaanxi water conservancy training class later merged into the college.李仪祉（1882 至 1938 年）是中国著名水利学家与现代水利建设先驱，他创办的陕西省水利专科班后来并入该校。

• Zhou Yao, a renowned insect taxonomist known as the butterfly god, studied under an authority at the University of Naples and taught at the National Northwest Agricultural College from 1939.被誉为「虫坛怪杰」「蝶神」的昆虫分类学家周尧曾在意大利那不勒斯大学师从权威学者，并于 1939 年起在国立西北农学院任教。

• Zhu Xianmo, a soil and land improvement expert elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991, worked at Yangling from 1959 and was a member of the International Union of Soil Sciences.1991 年当选中国科学院院士的土壤与土地整治专家朱显谟，自 1959 年起在杨陵工作，并为国际土壤学会会员。

• Shan Lun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in dryland agricultural physiology, co-chairs the academic committee of the state key laboratory on soil erosion and dryland farming.中国工程院院士、旱地农业生理生态学家山仑，担任黄土高原土壤侵蚀与旱地农业国家重点实验室学术委员会主任。

• Zhao Hongzhang, elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955, bred the wheat varieties that greatly raised Chinese wheat yields, and Li Zhenqi, elected in 1997, was a leading plant pathologist and wheat rust specialist.1955 年当选中国科学院学部委员的赵洪璋培育的小麦品种极大提高了中国小麦产量；1997 年当选的李振岐则是著名的植物病理学家与小麦锈病专家。

• Kang Zhensheng, a plant pathologist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, directs the state key laboratory of crop stress biology for arid areas at the university.植物病理学家、中国工程院院士康振生，担任该校旱区作物逆境生物学国家重点实验室主任。

• Zhang Yong, an academician known as the father of China's cloned goat, works on livestock embryo biotechnology and leads a provincial animal embryo engineering centre.被誉为「中国克隆羊之父」的院士张涌，从事家畜胚胎生物工程研究，并主持省级动物胚胎工程技术研究中心。

• Jin Weihuan and Yu Shuxun are among the alumni elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Dou Zhongying, an animal embryo engineering expert, received the national model worker title in 2004.校友金维焕与喻树迅当选中国工程院院士；动物胚胎工程专家窦忠英于 2004 年获全国劳动模范称号。

• Administrative alumni include Lu Ming, a former vice-governor of Gansu and vice-minister of agriculture, and Zhang Baowen, a former president of the university who became vice-minister of agriculture and chairman of the China Democratic League.行政领域校友包括曾任甘肃省副省长与农业部副部长的路明，以及曾任该校校长、后任农业部副部长与中国民主同盟中央主席的张宝文。

• Han Jun, now governor of Jilin Province, took master's and doctoral degrees in agricultural economics at the university between 1983 and 1989.现任吉林省省长的韩俊，于 1983 年至 1989 年间在该校先后攻读农业经济硕士与博士。

• Thein Sein, then president of Myanmar, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the university on 19 September 2012, and the German forester Gouulieb Fenzel, who died in 1936, was called the cornerstone of Shaanxi forestry.时任缅甸总统吴登盛于 2012 年 9 月 19 日获该校名誉博士学位；1936 年去世的德国林学家芬茨尔被称为「陕西林业的奠基石」。