Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University

Overview

Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University

Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University (FAFU) is a leading higher education institution in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China. It was founded in 1936 as the Agricultural Department of Fukien Christian College and gained its current name in 1972. The university is jointly supported by the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Forestry Administration, and the Fujian Provincial Government in China. It is among the first-batch universities in the country to confer master’s degrees as well as the second-batch universities to grant doctoral degrees. FAFU is regarded as one of the country’s foremost provincial agricultural and forestry universities.

Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University Key Statistics

The university has 20 colleges, including the College of Computer and Information Sciences, the College of Resource and Environmental Science, the College of Transportation and Civil Engineering, and the College of Management and Economics. It offers 36 undergraduate programs, 52 graduate programs, and 49 doctoral programs.

FAFU has a population of over 24,000 full-time undergraduate students and around 4,000 graduate students. It also employs 2,300 faculty and staff members. The university’s population is spread across three major campuses: the main campus in Cangshan District, the Qishan Campus in Minhou, and the Anxi College of Tea Science Campus in Quanzhou City. It also operates two independent colleges, namely, the Oriental College and Jinshan College.

Other Fujian Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University key statistics include its four libraries, namely, the Run Run Shaw Library, the Li Changsheng Library, the Qishan Campus Library, and the Anxi Campus Library. Collectively, they house 2,953,200 paper books and journal bindings, 4.42 million ebooks and e-journals, and 65 Chinese and 46 foreign-language databases.

Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University Research

FAFU ranks first in Fujian when it comes to receiving national research funding and second when it comes to getting provincial or ministerial grants.

The university's top three research fields are biology, chemistry, and gene. Its outputs have featured in publications like Scientific Reports, bioRxiv, and Food Chemistry. Meanwhile, its researchers have attended and presented papers at international conferences, such as the International Conference on Data Engineering, the International Conference on Big Data, and the International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems.

The most cited publication from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University research is Chalhoub et al.’s (2014) “Early allopolyploid evolution in the post-Neolithic Brassica napus oilseed genome,” published in Science, with a total of 1,447 citations to date. It is followed by Wan et al.’s (2016) “Software-defined industrial Internet of Things in the context of industry 4.0,” published in IEEE Sensors Journal. It has received a total of 600 citations. The university’s third most cited paper is Lu et al.’s (2011) “Direct ubiquitination of pattern recognition receptor FLS2 attenuates plant innate immunity,” published in Science. It has been cited by papers, articles, and other publications around 518 times so far.

FAFU also serves as home to several research centers and laboratories. These include the State Key Laboratory of Ecological Pest Control of Fujian and Taiwan Crops, the China National Engineering Research Center of JunCao Technology, the China National Engineering Research Center of Sugarcane Technology, and the National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center (Fujian) of Comprehensive Utilization and Development Technology of JUNCAO.