Introduction to Nanjing Forestry University

Nanjing Forestry University (NJFU) is a high-level research-oriented university with the advantage of forestry and the guidance of serving the national ecological civilization construction. It has coordinated development of science, engineering, agriculture, liberal arts, management, economics, law and arts. NJFU is one of the "Double First-Class" initiative universities and class A construction university of the Jiangsu Provincial High-level University Construction Peak Plan, co-administrated by the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government, the Ministry of Education and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.

The history of NJFU can be traced back to the Department of Agronomy of Sanjiang Normal College in 1902 and the Department of Agronomy of Jinling University in 1914. In 1952, the College of Forestry of Nanjing University (formerly the College of Forestry of National Central University) and the College of Forestry of Jinling University were merged to form Nanjing Forestry College which was one of the only three higher forestry colleges in the country at that time. In 1952, the Department of Forestry of Huazhong Agricultural University which was composed of the Department of Forestry of Wuhan University, Nanchang University and Hubei Agricultural University was merged into Nanjing Forestry College. In 1972 the name was changed to Nanjing Forestry Industrial College and later restored to Nanjing Forestry College in 1983. 1985 witness the establishment of Nanjing Forestry University.

Fully implementing the Party's educational policy, NJFU has always adhered to Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era and the fundamental task of cultivating morality and talents, upholding the original mission of educating people for the Party and the country. At present, NJFU has 24 College of Forestry and Grassland, College of Soil and Water Conservation, College of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Chemical Engineering, College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, College of Civil Engineering, College of Economics and Management, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Information Science and Technology, College of Artificial Intelligence, College of Landscape Architecture, College of Science, College of Foreign Languages, College of Art and Design, College of Furniture and Industrial Design, College of Light Industry and Food, College of Automotive and Transportation Engineering, College of Ecology and Environment, College of Marxism, College of Life Sciences, College of Continuing Education (College of Applied Technology), ,College of International Education, Zhilin International College of Physical Education and Aesthetic Education.

NJFU offers undergraduate education, graduate education, international education, continuing education, cadre training etc., with a total of more than 40,000 full-time students. Various teaching prizes have been won, including 2 first prizes and 11 second prizes of national teaching achievements, 3 special prizes, 18 first prizes and 22 second prizes for provincial teaching achievements. At present, there are 77 undergraduate programs, 31 national first-class programs and 6 national characteristic programs. There are 18 provincial-level first-class professional construction disciplines. Forestry majors (forestry, landscape architecture, forest protection) and forestry engineering majors (forestry chemicals, wood science and engineering, forest engineering) were selected as the first pilot projects of the reform of the education and training plan for outstanding agricultural and forestry talents of the Ministry of Education. There are 2 Provincial excellent engineer education and cultivation plan 2.0 professional construction disciplines, 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, and 1 national off-campus practice base for college students. There are 17 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers and practical education centers, 2 key industrial colleges in Jiangsu Province, 2 base of Top students Training Plan 2.0 of Basic disciplines in Jiangsu Province, and 1 key base of integration of production and education in Jiangsu Province. There are 2 virtual teaching and research rooms of the Ministry of Education, 3 first batch of excellent grass-roots teaching organizations in Jiangsu Province. There are 6 national quality open courses, 1 national ideological and political demonstration course, 45 national first-class undergraduate courses and 59 provincial-level first-class undergraduate courses. NJFU has won 24 gold awards, 10 silver awards and 12 bronze awards in the  China International "Internet +" College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition since the 14th Five-Year Plan and was listed as the "Ministry of Education National College Graduates Employability Training Base", "Ministry of Education National Graduate Employment Typical experience University", "Ministry of Education National Innovation and Entrepreneurship typical experience University", and "National Innovation and Entrepreneurship College". Adhering to the motto of "being sincere and majestic, cultivating trees and people" and the spirit of "unity, simplicity, diligence and progress", NJFU has cultivated more than 200,000 outstanding talents, including 10 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

NJFU is one of the first universities in China with the right to grant doctoral and master's degrees. At present, there are 7 post-doctoral mobile stations, 2 doctoral professional degree authorization base stations, 28 first-level master degree authorized subjects and 20 professional master degree authorized categories.There is currently one national "Double First Class" discipline construction site for forestry engineering. There are 2 first-level national key disciplines and 4 second-level national key disciplines. There are 1 national key discipline cultivation base of Jiangsu first-level discipline, 8 superior disciplines of Jiangsu universities, 13 key disciplines (including key cultivation disciplines) of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, and 10 key disciplines of Jiangsu Province. We establish the "Interdisciplinary Center for Advanced Functional Materials of Biomass" in Jiangsu universities. In the fourth round of national subject assessment, Forestry Engineering and Forestry were awarded A+ and Landscape Architecture was awarded A-. Four disciplines, namely Engineering, Chemistry, Agricultural Sciences, and Plant & Animal Science, were ranked among the top 1‰ of global institutions in the ESI rankings. Additionally, six disciplines, including Materials Science, Environment/Ecology, Biology & Biochemistry, Geosciences, General Social Sciences, and Computer Science, were ranked among the top 1% of global institutions in the ESI rankings. A total of 527 ESI highly cited papers were published, forming a new pattern of coordinated and high-quality development between leading and fundamental disciplines.

NJFU has a team of high quality faculties with noble ethics, exquisite business, and vitality. There are 2030 full-time teachers, 317 doctoral supervisors, 1163 staff with senior titles, 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 38 other national talents, 14 experts enjoying the special government allowance of The State Council, and 4 national Huang Danian teaching teams. There are 4 chief scientists at the first level of "333 Project" in Jiangsu Province, 2 national and provincial excellent teachers, 1 national excellent teaching team, and 1 national ideological and political curriculum famous teacher and teaching team. There are 14 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the provincial and ministerial levels, and more than 570 provincial talent programs such as "333 Project" at the second and third levels, "Blue Project" and "Six Peaks"; There are 11 provincial and ministerial famous teachers, 27 provincial innovation teams such as Jiangsu provincial scientific and technological innovation team and "blue and blue project". The University was rated as one of the national "benchmarking colleges and departments for Party building work", 11 of the national "model Party building branch", the National University "strong country" special action team, and the National University "double leader" Teacher Party branch secretary studio, and was selected as the cultivation and construction unit of the "Jiangsu provincial demonstration University for Party building work".

NJFU insists on writing the paper on the earth, aiming at the major national strategies such as ecological civilization construction, rural revitalization, carbon peak carbon neutrality, and healthy China and the needs of regional economic and social development, and supporting high-quality development with high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. Since the 14th Five-Year Plan, 10 national key research and development program projects, 32 projects, and 1 national biological breeding science and technology special project have been approved; 3 major projects and 1 key project of the National Social Science Fund have been approved. We have reviewed (identified) 40 national, provincial and ministerial improved varieties, obtained 79 national new plant variety rights, formulated/revised 62 international/national standards, and authorized 2274 invention patents. The school has won 61 National Science and technology awards and more than 400 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, including 2 first prizes of national science and technology progress. Six national innovation platforms have been established, including "National Key Laboratory of forest genetics and breeding", "National Key Laboratory of forest food resources mining and utilization", "Joint Laboratory of international cooperation on Forest Genetics and germplasm innovation", "National Engineering Research Center for low-carbon and efficient utilization of forest biomass", "National and local joint Engineering Research Center for packaging biomass materials for mechanical and electrical products" and "discipline innovation and talent introduction base for advanced forestry biomass materials"; There are more than 50 provincial and ministerial innovation platforms, such as the "collaborative innovation center of Southern modern forestry" and the "international innovation highland of forest chemistry and materials" (jointly built by the State Forestry and grassland administration and the people's Government of Jiangsu Province). It has established the forestry heritage and forest environmental history research center of the State Forestry and grassland administration, the think tank mainly cultivated by Jiangsu Institute of ecological civilization construction and forestry development, the decision-making consulting base of Jiangsu Province, and the social sciences popularization base of colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province. Seven think tank achievements have been approved by Party and state leaders, more than 40 think tank achievements have been approved by central ministries and commissions and provincial and ministerial leaders in Jiangsu Province, and more than 20 achievements have been adopted or adopted by the National People's Congress, the CPPCC, the Jiangsu provincial Party committee and the Jiangsu provincial government. The school continues to release the blue book of ecological forestry and the green book of ecological civilization.

The university adheres to the international development strategy. As one of the earliest forestry colleges in China to recruit foreign students, the university receives more than 600 foreign students to study for degrees or further study every year, and is one of the first colleges and universities to pass the quality certification of studying in China by national institutions of higher Learning. We Jointly build the non-independent legal entity educational institution"Zhilin International College" with the National University of Malaysia. Since the 14th Five-Year Plan, NJFU has established long-term academic research and personnel training cooperation with more than 100 world-class universities and research institutions in more than 20 countries or regions. NJFU cooperated with Alabama A&M University in the United States to carry out Chinese language education and Chinese cultural exchanges, and jointly organized the "3+2" Sino-foreign cooperative education program with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Joint talent training programs with the University of Western Australia in Australia, the University of New Brunswick in Canada, RWTH University of Aachen in Germany, the University of Strathclyde in the UK, long-term and short-term credit mutual recognition visiting programs with the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in the UK, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States, the University of California, Berkeley and other overseas universities were also carried out. It is one of the first local universities in Jiangsu Province with the independent right to exam and approve specified foreign affairs.

The university adheres to the integrated development of multiple campuses, with Nanjing Xinzhuang campus, Huai’an campus and the new Baima campus under construction, with a total area of 10244.15 mu. The library has more than 2.86 million copies of paper documents and 4.387 million copies of electronic books. A highly-efficient integrated smart network covering all campuses has been built.

After 120 years of development, Nanjing Forestry University is not only a noble and great institution of higher learning with heritage, but also a place where profound ideas converge. Nanjing Forestry University continues to keep the revolutionary legacy and eco-friendly advantage. In the new era, the university will adhere to the "double first-class" construction and high-quality development, committed to building a world-class university with distinctive forestry characteristics, and striding forward toward the long-term goal of a world-class university with distinctive characteristics.