The school was founded on March 9 195 1. Hunan Agriculture and Forestry College founded by 1903 and Hunan University Agricultural College founded by 1926 were merged. At that time, its name was "Hunan Agricultural College" and its name was inscribed by President Mao Zedong. 1994 was renamed Hunan Agricultural University with the approval of the State Education Commission in February.
Since entering the 2 1 century, the school leadership has emancipated its mind, pioneered and innovated, kept pace with the times and worked hard, led the teachers and students to unite and struggle, accelerated the pace of school reform and development, expanded the scale of the cause, obviously improved the conditions for running schools, and strengthened its comprehensive strength, and successively won a series of major honors and landmark achievements in running schools: in 200 1 year, Professor Guan Chunyun was elected as an academician of China Academy of Engineering. 200 1 won "excellent" in the undergraduate teaching evaluation of the Ministry of Education; In 2002, it was awarded the honorary title of "civilized unit" by the provincial party Committee and government; In 2003, it was awarded the honorary titles of "Advanced Unit of Party Building Work" and "Advanced Grass-roots Party Organization" by the Working Committee of Colleges and Universities of the Provincial Party Committee. In 2004, it was awarded the honorary title of "Excellent Enterprise Legal Person in Hunan Province" and was determined by Hunan Provincial Party Committee as the only "grass-roots Party building demonstration site" among undergraduate colleges in the province. In 2005, it was awarded the honorary title of "Civilized Model Unit" by the provincial party committee and government.
After 53 years of construction, the school has developed from a teaching-oriented agricultural college with a single discipline to a teaching-research university with comprehensive development of agriculture, engineering, literature, science, economics, management, law and teaching. The school began to recruit master students from 1978, doctoral students from 1987, and set up postdoctoral research mobile stations from 1995. 1997, undergraduate students are recruited nationwide? Is the shell raked tightly? 1 province, city and autonomous region enrollment. At present, there are full-time undergraduate and junior college students 18590, adult students 20723 and graduate students 172 1 person. Over the past 53 years, * * * has trained nearly 70,000 talents in various fields for the society.
The school has 17 colleges, including Agricultural College, Horticultural Garden College, Biosafety Science and Technology College, Animal Science College, Food Science and Technology College, Engineering Technology College, Resources and Environment College, Science College, Economics and Management College, Humanities and Social Sciences College, Foreign Languages College, Computer and Information Engineering College, Vocational and Technical Education College, Adult Education College, Oriental Science and Technology College, International College and Biotechnology College. At present, there are 44 undergraduate majors, 9 specialist majors, 40 master's degree authorization points, 23 doctoral degree authorization points in two disciplines, 2 doctoral degree authorization points in first-class disciplines, 2 postdoctoral research stations, national key disciplines 1, national oil crop improvement sub-centers 1, provincial key laboratories 1, and l key disciplines and 8 in the Ministry of Agriculture.
There are 978 full-time teachers, academicians of China Academy of Engineering 1 person, in-service doctoral supervisors1/6, master supervisors1person, full professors1person, and 426 associate professors. Four people were awarded the title of "Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions" at the national level, two people were awarded the title of "Excellent Young and Middle-aged Experts" by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, 1 person was awarded as a member of the undergraduate teaching evaluation expert group of the Ministry of Education, 59 people received special government allowance, two people were awarded the title of "Furong Scholar Program" distinguished professor, 18 people were awarded the title of "Excellent Young and Middle-aged Experts" in Hunan Province, and 26 people were selected as training objects and cross-
Since the Ninth Five-Year Plan, our school has won national, provincial and ministerial scientific and technological achievement awards 156, including national 13 and provincial/ministerial 143, and 54 new crop varieties have passed the * * selection; * * * Undertaking 98 national key research projects, national "863" projects, national natural science foundation, national trans-agricultural plan, national key research projects in the Ninth Five-Year Plan, national rice quality improvement projects, national major post-subsidy projects for new crop varieties, national 973 and national 948 projects, and undertaking 763 provincial and ministerial projects; The department has published more than 3,240 scientific research papers and 229 monographs. The school-run science and technology industry has also developed rapidly, with 4 wholly-owned, shareholding and holding enterprises/KLOC-0. In 2004, the net assets were 65,438+120,000 yuan and the annual operating income was 2130,000 yuan.
The school has been expanding its opening to the outside world, and has established close ties with more than 20 universities in Britain, the United States, Canada, France, Japan, South Korea, Italy, Australia, Thailand, New Zealand and other countries, as well as international institutions such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and established sister school relationships with novas Shack Agricultural College, Kagoshima University, Okayama University and Royal Institute of Technology in Thailand. In 2002, our school began to send undergraduates to foreign universities for exchange, study and training.
In the historical opportunity period of the leap-forward development of higher education, the school will adhere to the party's basic line and the socialist direction of running a school, emancipate its mind, change its concept, take development as the theme, take structural adjustment as the main line, take deepening reform as the driving force, fully implement quality education and innovative education, and follow the simple, enthusiastic, realistic and innovative school motto; Carry forward the spirit of loving the school, being pragmatic, working hard and being willing to contribute; Adhere to the school-running philosophy of establishing a school by quality, developing the school by learning and strengthening the school by talents, adhere to the principle of giving priority to undergraduate education, actively develop postgraduate education, base on Hunan, face the whole country, serve agriculture, rural areas and farmers, serve the society, combine Industry-University-Research, take agricultural science as a feature, and develop in a coordinated manner with multiple disciplines, and strive to build our school into a high-level teaching and research university among the advanced ranks of similar universities in China.