Southwest Agricultural University (SWAU)

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Southwest Agricultural University (SWAU) was founded in 1950. In 1979, it became a national key university with the approval of State Council of China. In the past 50 years, it has grown into an important and key base for higher education and research of agricultural science & technology in Southwest China. In April, 2001, it merged with Sichuan Institute of Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Medicine and the Citrus Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in a move authorized by the State Education Commission, Chongqing Municipal government and Chongqing Education Commission, and thus greatly improved its strength.

The campuses of SWAU are located in Beibei, , Rongchang and Hechuan of Chongqing, covering an area of 373 ha. Its buildings have a floor space of 550,000 square meters and its library boasts a collection of 1,290,000 volumes and regularly collects books for FAO affiliated libraries. The main campus is located in Beibei, a famous state-level cultural scenery district, which is 20 km away from Chongqing proper. It is next to Mt. Jinyun and near the Jialing River. The campus is covered with green trees and beautiful flowers, an ideal place for students to study, research and live. The Rongchang campus is in “the City of Animal Husbandry Technology”, close to the Laixi River. The Citrus Institute is in the north of Chongqing city, 30 km away from downtown as a nationally renowned research institute of southern fruits.

SWAU is among the earliest institutions authorized to confer Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in China. It has a strong faculty and research team. Of the current 3,605 faculty members and staff, 1 is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Sciences (CAES), 34 are Ph.D. advisors and 196 are M.S. advisors, 210 are professors or research fellows, 700 are associate professors or associate research fellows.

There are 15 colleges in SWAU. The courses offered in SWAU cover the disciplines of agriculture, science, medicine, engineering, management, economics and arts. It boasts 3 first-class subject Ph.D. degree programs, 5 post–doctoral research stations, 19 Ph.D. programs, 43 master programs, 3 special programs of academic degree, 54 undergraduate and diploma programs. It combines post-graduation education, bachelor and specialized education, adult education, vocational education and cadre education programs, thus forming a higher agricultural education system with multiple-disciplines and a reasonable structure. Of the over 20,000–odd students who are currently studying in the university, more than 1,000 are post-doctorates, doctorates or postgraduates. More than 14,000 students are studying for Bachelors degree and about 6,000 adult and professional students are studying at the university. It has 1 state key discipline, 12 provincial and ministerial key disciplines, 7 key open laboratories entrusted by the provincial and municipal authorities, 11 research institutes and 4 research centers.

It launches over 400 research programs every year, and over 500 of the 1,000 research results were awarded “Prizes for Outstanding Research Results” granted by the state, provincial or municipal authorities, and placed by the central or local governments onto the list of key items to be adopted by our society. It has extended the research results to 390 counties throughout the country and gained great economic and social benefits by increasing agriculture output value about 13 billions. At present, the research in the university is considered to be in the leading position in China in the fields of biological transgenic engineering, sericulture and olericulture, soil science, insect, cotton, and rape, among which sericulture and olericulture are in the top position in the world.

Up to now, SWAU has turned out more than 100,000 graduates with professional skills, the most distinguished of whom are Xie Shijie, who is the chairman of the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Sichuan Province, Yuan Longping, who is an academician of CAES and is known as “the Father of Hybrid Rice in the World”, Wu Mingzhu, who is an academician of CAES and is praised as “a Pearl on the Gobi Desert”, and Xiang Zhonghuai, also an academician of CAES, who is the well-known expert for silkworm breeding.

Until now, the university has enhanced academic exchange and science research cooperation with universities and research institutes from over 30 countries and regions around the world. It has established long-term friendly and cooperation relations with 20 universities and research institutes in 10 foreign countries, and enrolled international students from Japan, France, Britain and Korea. It has invited more than 1,000 foreign experts and teachers to give lectures or carry out cooperative research or academic exchange, or work as teachers on the campus, and employed 30 internationally renowned foreign experts to serve as honorary professors or guest professors of the university.