China
Agricultural University (CAU) in Beijing, China, specializes in agriculture,
biology, engineering, veterinary medicine, economics, management, humanities
and social sciences. It was formed in 1995 by a merger of the Beijing
Agricultural University and the Beijing Agricultural Engineering University. China
Agricultural University (CAU), directly subordinated to the Ministry of
Education, is a Key National University entering the State 985 Program and the
State 211 Program. QU Zhenyuan is the Chair of the University Council and CHEN
Zhangliang is the President.
CAU
has constructed itself as a research-oriented institute in order to better
serve the country and the world by using its rich and highly qualified
personnel resources. Attention has been paid to fundamental researches with
focus on high-technologies in the fields of agriculture and biology aiming at
applied prospects significant to national economic development. In year 2005
alone, CAU was awarded three times for State Prize and 25 times for Ministerial
Prize.
With
one-hundred years of history, CAU has developed itself as a comprehensive
university with agriculture as its distinguished feature and advantage. It
covers a wide range of disciplines on a complementary basis, such as
agriculture and life science, resources and environment, information and
computer science, agricultural engineering and automation science, economic
management and social sciences, etc. Currently, CAU is composed of 13 colleges
involving in nine categories of agronomy, engineering, science, economics, law,
literature, medicine and philosophy. In addition, CAU also has a Graduate School
and a School of Continuing Education. Speaking educational sector, CAU owns 19
Key State Disciplines, 15 Key Ministerial Disciplines and ten Post-Doctor
Working Stations. A number of key labs were also established in CAU including 3
Key State Labs, 22 Key Ministerial Labs, 4 State Research Centers, ten
Ministerial Research Centers and five Innovative Research Teams.
CAU is proud of having a strong and highly qualified faculty team
with 1,398 members in total. Among whom, there are five (5) Academicians of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences and five (5) Academicians of the Chinese Academy of
Engineering, 351 professors, 598 associate professors, nine (9)
specially-invited professors, two (2) guest professors, 25 young faculty
members supported by the State Science Foundation for Outstanding Young
Professionals and 39 faculty members financed by the Ministry of Education
Program for New Century Excellent Professionals. CAU also invited a number of
world-known scholars including Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug as CAU Honorable
Professors and Guest Professors.