Yunnan Agricultural University
Yunnan Agricultural University was founded in 1938 when it was known as the Agricultural College of National Yunnan University, located in Chenggong, Kunming. In 1958, it became Kunming Agricultural and Forestry College and moved to Heilongtan, the northern suburb of Kunming. In 1962, Southern Yunnan University and Western Yunnan University were merged with Kunming Agricultural and Forestry College and moved to Binchuan, Dali Prefecture in 1969. In the next year, the college moved to Xundian, Qujing.
After it was merged with Yunnan Agricultural Labor University and establish Yunnan Agricultural University in 1971, the new university moved back to Heilongtan in 1980. It was authorized to confer master degrees in 1983, listed as a key university in Yunnan Province in 1993, authorized to confer doctor's degrees in 2003, and set up a post doctoral research station in 2007. In 2008, the undergraduate teaching was evaluated as excellent by the Ministry of Education. In 2009, 2013 and 2014, relying on the school's education management resources, the provincial Party committee and the provincial government established Yunnan Rural Cadre College, Yunnan Food Safety Management College and Yunnan Plateau Characteristic Agricultural Industry Research Institute respectively. In 2013, the New Rural Development Research Institute of Yunnan Agricultural University was established with the approval of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China.
The university now has 22 colleges, ranging from cultivation, aquaculture, water resources and hydro-power, agricultural engineering, agricultural economic management and humanities and social sciences.
By now, YAU has established exchanges and cooperation with more than 100 overseas colleges and universities in 23 countries, including the UK, the United States, Japan, Germany, South Korea, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar and Slovenia.
In 2001, YAU was approved to carry out the Sino-foreign cooperative school running project of "Garden and Horticulture" ("2 + 2") with Lawrence University in the Netherlands; In 2014, it launched the Sino-foreign joint-project of "Civil Engineering" ("4 + 0") with Hooverhampton University; In 2015, the joint-educational program of "Agricultural and Forestry Economic Management" ("3 + 1") with Lincoln University in New Zealand was launched.
In 2012, YAU was approved by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to establish the "China ASEAN Education and Training Center", the first and only center of its kind.
Three foreign experts including Michael Augustine Fullen won the "Caiyun Award", the highest honor for foreign experts in Yunnan Province, and YAU was awarded the honorary titles or awards including "National Advanced University for Employing Foreign Experts" and "Advanced University for Foreign Affairs in Education in Yunnan Province".
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