Jiangxi Agricultural University(JXAU)is located inthe northern part ofNanchang, Jiangxi province,covering 16,000 mu(about 1,067hectares). It is jointly established by four national and provincial departments.

JXAU is one of the oldest universities in Jiangxi, whosehistory can date back to 1905 when Jiangxi Industrial School was founded. Undergraduate education started with the establishment ofNational ChungchengUniversity in 1940. The university was renamed Nanchang University in 1949 and Jiangxi Communist Labor University in 1968, which，in 1969,was merged with Agricultural Collegefounded in 1952. In November 1980, the university was renamed Jiangxi Agricultural University.

JXAUis one of the first universitiesin Chinatoconfer bachelor’s and master’sprogramsand the first university in Jiangxi to conferpostgraduateprograms.Currentlycomposedof 17 schools, with more than 24,000 full-time students, itis committed to research and education in disciplines covering 9 major categories, namelyagronomy, science, engineering, economics, management, liberal arts, law, education andart.It offers doctorate programs for 6 first-level disciplines, master’s degree programs for 21 first-level disciplines, professional master’s degreeprogramsfor 9 disciplines and undergraduate programsfor59majors. Among them, 1 discipline islisted amongkey disciplineswith support from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, 4 arelisted amongfirst-class disciplinesnamedby Jiangxi province, 11 majors have been awardedprovincialfirst-class majorsofJiangxi, 13 majors are listed as national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 4 majors are listed as national first-class specialty and 9 majors are listedasprovincial-level characteristic majors. It also has 4 national experimental demonstrationteaching centers and national practical teaching bases, 1 virtual teaching and research office of the Ministry of Education, and 4 post-doctoral scientific research mobile stations.

With the advantageinagriculturefeaturingbiotechnology and coordinated multidisciplinary development, JXAUis committed to scientific research. Ithas founded the first independently-established state key laboratory of pig genetic improvement and production technology in Jiangxiprovince,41 provincial and ministerial scientific and technological innovation platforms, including the National Engineering Laboratory, the National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory, the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education, the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the Key Laboratory of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration (Engineering Technology Center), provincial key laboratories (engineering technology research centers), a reserve for major scientific and technological innovation platforms in Jiangxi Province, provincial engineering laboratories (research centers), and key innovation centers for the integration of production and education. It also has 9 high-quality scientific research platforms such as national collaborative innovation centers, provincial collaborative innovation centers, and 6 provincial think tanks.Since 2016, it has won 62 scientific research awards, and was the first in Jiangxiprovinceto undertake a major project funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and key agricultural core technology research projects. 3 disciplines of the universityhaveentered the top 1% of ESI in the world.JXAUhas established strategic cooperation and sci-tech cooperation relations with more than 80percentofthecounties in Jiangxi, and has promoted a large number of excellent varieties and modern agricultural technologies with independent intellectual property rights.

The university currently has 1,859 teaching and administrative staff, including 80 national talents represented bytwoacademiciansof Chinese Academy of Sciences, 245 provincial and ministerial-level talents, and 7 national excellent teachers. 18 teachingteamshave been awarded the titles of National Innovation Team, National Excellent Teaching Team, Provincial Innovation Team, and Provincial Excellent Teaching Team.JXAUadheres to the mutual development of teaching and research, and has achieved outstanding results in talentcultivation, scientific research, social services,culturaltransmissionand innovation, and international exchanges and cooperation. Since the establishment of the university, it hascultivated more than350,000 talentsforvarious fieldsrepresented by13 academicians and more than100 outstanding talents. Many graduates have become the backbonesof agricultural production, management and technologydissemination.