华中农业大学是位于湖北省武汉市的一所教育部直属全国重点大学，办学源头可追溯至清朝光绪二十四年（1898年）湖广总督张之洞创办的湖北农务学堂，是我国高等农业教育重要发源地之一。1952年院系调整组建华中农学院、1985年正式更名、2005年进入国家”211工程”建设行列、2017年入选国家”双一流”建设高校，累计办学128年。
历史沿革与办学源流
学校由清朝光绪年间湖广总督张之洞于1898年创办的湖北农务学堂演变而来，几经更迭：1903年扩建为湖北高等农务学堂，1912年改建为湖北甲种农业学校，1937年抗日战争西迁湖北恩施五峰山坚持办学；1952年以武汉大学农学院、湖北省农学院整体和中山大学、南昌大学、河南大学、广西大学、湖南农学院、江西农学院部分系（科）组建成立华中农学院。1985年正式更名为华中农业大学，迁址武昌南湖狮子山办学。办学以来党和国家领导人董必武、李先念、江泽民（1998百年校庆题词）、胡锦涛、习近平先后以题词、回信、考察等形式关怀学校发展，2024年习近平总书记听取校长严建兵教授关于高蛋白玉米研发情况汇报。
学科体系与人才培养
学校设有17个学院（部）、67个本科专业，构建涵盖农学、理学、工学、文学、法学、经济学、管理学的多学科协调发展体系；拥有15个博士后科研流动站、27个硕士学位授权一级学科、15个博士学位授权一级学科，全日制在校学生33000余人，其中本科生19000余人、硕士生10000余人、博士生4000余人。生物学、园艺学、畜牧学、兽医学、农林经济管理5个学科连续两轮入选国家”双一流”建设学科；7个学科进入全国第四轮学科评估A类（其中3个A+），首轮”双一流”成效评价9项指标中有7项为第一档。15个学科进入ESI全球排名前1%、3个进入前1‰、1个进入前1‱，覆盖农学、生命科学、理学、工学、医学、社会科学6大门类。累计获国家级教学成果奖30项（特等奖1项、一等奖4项、二等奖25项），国家级一流本科课程73门，国家级一流专业建设点31个。
师资队伍
学校现有教职工3122人，其中专任教师1737人（正高621人、副高876人）、博士后373人。拥有中国科学院院士1人、中国工程院院士6人（含近五年新增3人）、美国科学院外籍院士1人、国家教学名师5人；国家自然科学基金创新研究群体6个、省部级优秀创新团队93个、国家级教学团队7个。近五年新增国家级领军人才31人、国家级青年人才80人，国家级人才数量实现倍增。
科研平台与标志性成果
学校建有全国重点实验室3个、国家工程（技术）研究中心3个、教育部前沿科学中心1个、国家生物育种产教融合创新平台1个，国际科技合作基地15个，部省级重点（工程）实验室32个、研发中心48个。近五年牵头承担国家重大重点科技攻关任务超过200项，获批科研经费超过70亿元，获国家科技成果二等奖6项；2项研究成果分别入选中国十大科技进展新闻和中国科学十大进展，1项成果入选《科学》（Science）杂志2025年度全球十大科学突破。在杂交油菜、绿色超级稻、优质种猪、动物疫苗、优质柑橘、棉花和玉米、淡水鱼等研究领域取得一批享誉国内外的标志性成果；张启发院士领衔的绿色超级稻团队、傅廷栋院士领衔的杂交油菜团队、邓秀新院士领衔的柑橘团队、陈焕春院士领衔的动物疫苗团队在国内外学术界具有重要影响。学校狮山系列玉米品种累计推广超过1亿亩，邓秀新院士主持选育的优质柑橘系列品种支撑湖北秭归等主产区产业升级，绿色超级稻研究成果在东南亚与非洲多个国家落地。
国际合作、社会服务与发展愿景
学校与美国加州大学戴维斯分校、荷兰瓦赫宁根大学等200余所海外高校及科研机构建立合作，开办华中农业大学新西兰林肯大学联合学院，建有国际减贫研究院、中法园艺研究联合实验室，牵头发起全球粮食安全青年科学家联盟和基因组育种算法国际竞赛，连续主办中巴农业论坛并在刚果（布）设立海外科教示范基地。学校获评”全国脱贫攻坚楷模”集体等荣誉，长期派出科技特派员服务地方农业产业。校园坐拥狮子山、三面环湖，5平方公里山水校园、9公里浪漫湖岸线，总建筑面积超200万平方米，图书馆馆藏纸质文献超230万册；自2017年起连续三届获评首届全国文明校园。办学128年来累计培养各类人才30余万人，学校目标是到2035年基本建成特色鲜明的世界一流大学。
Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU) is a national key university under the Chinese Ministry of Education, located in Wuhan, Hubei Province. Its roots trace to the Hubei Agricultural School founded in 1898 by Huguang Governor-General Zhang Zhidong, making it one of the most important cradles of modern Chinese higher agricultural education. After the 1952 national restructuring of departments, the 1985 renaming, and the 2005 entry into the national 211 Project, HZAU entered the Double First-Class initiative in 2017, completing 128 years of continuous operation.
Historical Evolution
HZAU evolved from the 1898 Hubei Agricultural School into the Hubei Higher Agricultural School in 1903 and the Hubei A-grade Agricultural School in 1912. During the Anti-Japanese War the campus relocated to Wufeng Mountain in Enshi, western Hubei. The 1952 national restructuring united the agriculture colleges of Wuhan University and Hubei Agricultural College with parts of six other universities (Sun Yat-sen, Nanchang, Henan, Guangxi, Hunan and Jiangxi agricultural colleges) to form the Central China Agricultural College, which moved to Shizi Mountain in 1957 and was renamed Huazhong Agricultural University in 1985. Chinese leaders including Dong Biwu, Li Xiannian, Jiang Zemin (who inscribed the campus for its 1998 centenary), Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping have all engaged with the university. In 2024 President Xi Jinping received a briefing from HZAU President Yan Jianbing on high-protein maize development.
Disciplines and Talent Development
The university hosts 17 schools (departments), 67 undergraduate programs, 27 master’s-level first-level disciplines, 15 doctoral-level first-level disciplines and 15 postdoctoral research stations. Total enrollment exceeds 33,000 full-time students (more than 19,000 undergraduates, 10,000 master’s students and 4,000 doctoral candidates). Five disciplines (biology, horticulture, animal husbandry, veterinary medicine, and agricultural forestry economics and management) are part of the national Double First-Class construction. Seven disciplines earned A-class rankings in the fourth national discipline evaluation (three at A+); in the first round of Double First-Class outcome evaluation seven of nine indicators placed HZAU in the top tier. Fifteen disciplines rank in the top 1 percent globally by ESI, three in the top 1 per mille, and one in the top 1 per 10,000, spanning agricultural science, life science, natural science, engineering, medical science and social science. The university has earned 30 national teaching achievement awards and 73 national first-class undergraduate courses.
Faculty
HZAU has 3,122 faculty and staff including 1,737 full-time teachers and 373 postdoctoral fellows. Faculty include one academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, six of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, one foreign associate of the US National Academy of Sciences and five National Distinguished Teachers. Six National Natural Science Foundation innovation research groups, 93 provincial and ministerial innovation teams and seven national teaching teams are based on campus. The past five years have added 31 national leading talents and 80 national young talents, doubling the headcount of national-level researchers.
Research Platforms and Landmark Achievements
HZAU’s research infrastructure includes three national key laboratories, three national engineering (technology) research centers, a frontier science center of the Ministry of Education and a national bio-breeding industry-education integration platform, complemented by 15 international science and technology cooperation bases, 32 ministerial key laboratories and 48 ministerial R&D centers. Over the past five years HZAU has led more than 200 major national research projects, secured above 7 billion RMB in research funding, won six National Science and Technology Progress second-class awards, and produced two findings selected among China’s top ten scientific advances and one finding (a Chinese-led 2025 breakthrough in high-protein maize) selected by Science magazine as one of the global top ten scientific breakthroughs of 2025. Landmark research spans hybrid rapeseed (led by Academician Fu Tingdong), green super rice (led by Academician Zhang Qifa), quality pig breeding, animal vaccines (led by Academician Chen Huanchun), premium citrus (led by Academician Deng Xiuxin), cotton, maize and freshwater fish. The Shishan-series maize cultivars have cumulatively covered over 100 million mu (about 6.7 million hectares) of farmland, while the citrus cultivar suite supports industries across Zigui and other major growing regions, and the green super rice portfolio has been deployed in Southeast Asia and several African countries.
International Collaboration and Outreach
HZAU maintains partnerships with more than 200 international universities and research institutes, including the University of California Davis and Wageningen University. It co-runs the HZAU-Lincoln Joint College in New Zealand, hosts the International Poverty Reduction Academy and the Sino-French Joint Laboratory for Horticulture, co-initiates the Global Food Security Young Scientists Alliance and the International Genomic Breeding Algorithm Competition, hosts the China-Pakistan Agricultural Forum series and runs an overseas science-education demonstration base in the Republic of Congo. The university has been honored as a National Model for Poverty Alleviation and dispatches science-and-technology extension experts to support local agricultural industries. The 5-square-kilometer campus at the foot of Shizi Mountain, fringed by three lakes and a 9-kilometer lakeshore, contains over 2 million square meters of built space and a library holding more than 2.3 million print volumes. HZAU has received the National Civilized Campus title for three consecutive terms since 2017. With more than 300,000 graduates over three decades, HZAU aims to build a world-class university with distinctive agricultural strengths by 2035.
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