By April 2013, the university had 1,661 faculty members and 28,964 students.[2]
History
Inside the Research Building, South Campus, Northwest A&F University of Science and Technology
The State Council agreed to merge 7 organizations as new Northwest A&F University[3] in a reply to the proposal drafted by Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Province Government. A financial budget of 600,000,000 RMB was granted as start fund and further investment plan as well as related issue such as reshuffle were also briefly stated in this official reply.[citation needed] On 11 September 1999, a central government delegation led by Vice Premier Li Lanqing attended the opening ceremony and made the announcement.[citation needed]
List of presidents
President
September 1999 – August 2003 Mr. Chen, Zongxing (陈宗兴)
August 2003 – January 2011 Professor. Sun, Wuxue (孙武学)
January 2011 – July 2017 Professor Sun, Qixin (孙其信)
December 2017 - present Professor Wu, Pute (吴普特)
Communist Party Committee Secretary of A&F
September 1999 – August 2003 Professor Sun, Wuxue (孙武学)
August 2003 – May 2013 Professor. Zhang, Guangqiang (张光强)
The university ranks as Top 3 research and teaching quality in China's agriculture universities[15] and is a member of "Project 985" club which is an organization of 39 reputable universities in China. Northwest A&F University's research achievements are dominant in the fields of agriculture biology including wheat breeding, entomology, agriculture resource management, horticulture, plant protection, food science (especially in Enology), forestry and veterinary. Besides, the university is also reputable in agricultural water conservancy, agriculture economics and management, agriculture mechanics and information engineering and ancient agricultural history research.[16]
