Southwest Forestry University

Southwest Forestry University, or "Xilin" for short, is located in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in Chuncheng. It is a University jointly built by the Ministry and the province with forestry as the main subject, biological environment as the characteristic subject, and agriculture, science, engineering, arts, law, management, teaching and other disciplines developing in an interdisciplinary way.

Southwest Forestry University started from the Department of forestry, Yunnan University in 1939. It has experienced Kunming agriculture and Forestry College, Yunnan Forestry College, Yunnan Forestry College, Southwest Forestry College and Southwest Forestry University. Founded independently in 1978, it was originally a college directly under the Ministry of forestry. In 1983, it was renamed Southwest Forestry University, one of the six regional forestry colleges directly under the former Ministry of forestry. In 2000, it was adjusted to a college jointly built by the Ministry and the province and managed by the province. In 2010, it was renamed Southwest Forestry University.

essential information

Historical evolution

Department of forestry, Yunnan University

The school originated from the Department of forestry, Yunnan University in 1938.

In August 1958, the departments of agriculture and forestry were separated from Yunnan University and established Kunming agriculture and Forestry College, which is located in Heilongtan, the northern suburb of Kunming.

In 1973, the Department of forestry of Kunming agriculture and Forestry University merged with Beijing Forestry University, which moved south to Kunming, and established Yunnan Forestry University. Under the direct leadership of the former Ministry of forestry, it enrolled students nationwide. The school is located in Wenquan Town, Anning City.

In 1978, Beijing Forestry University decided to move back to Beijing. The former State Education Commission and State Forestry Administration approved Yunnan Forestry University to establish an independent school at the original site and continue to run the school.

Southwest Forestry College

In 1981, it became one of the first batch of master's degree awarding units approved by the State Council.

In October 1983, with the approval of the former Ministry of forestry, Yunnan Forestry College was renamed Southwest Forestry College.

In 1985, the former Ministry of forestry approved the relocation of Southwest Forestry College.

In 1990, he moved to No. 300, Bailong temple, Kunming City, Yunnan Province.

In September 2000, Southwest Forestry University implemented the management of Yunnan Province, which was included in the overall plan of economic construction, social development and higher education development of Yunnan Province, and enjoyed the same policies and relevant treatment as provincial local universities.

Southwest Forestry University

In 2008, the State Forestry Administration issued a document supporting Southwest Forestry University to change its name to Southwest Forestry University.

In 2009, the Ministry of education agreed to build Southwest Forestry University on the basis of Southwest Forestry University.

On March 18, 2010, the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China officially agreed to change the name of Southwest Forestry University to Southwest Forestry University. On May 18, Southwest Forestry University was officially established.

In 2011, Bailong campus of Kunming University of science and technology was officially transferred to Southwest Forestry University.

 

In 2013, Southwest Forestry University was approved as a doctoral degree awarding unit.

 

In May 2020, the world tea Library of Southwest Forestry University and the ancient tea tree research center of Southwest Forestry University were established.

 

School scale

Department setting

As of September 2019, the university has 23 teaching units and 85 undergraduate majors.

 

Specialty setting

 

Faculty

As of September 2019, the school has 1211 teaching staff, 207 special post staff and 257 non staff. There are 100 full-time teachers and 299 associate professors. There are 736 graduate tutors, including 86 doctoral tutors and 650 master tutors. There are 1 Changjiang Scholar, 1 first-class expert of national "100 million talents project", 1 "100 talents plan" of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 3 new century talents of Ministry of education, 3 national excellent teachers, 1 outstanding contribution expert of the State Council, 2 experts enjoying special allowance of the State Council, 5 outstanding contribution experts of Yunnan Province, 12 experts enjoying special allowance of Yunnan provincial government, and 12 experts introducing overseas talents of Yunnan Province There are 2 high-level talents, 38 young and middle-aged academic and technological leaders and reserve talents in Yunnan Province, and 5 technological innovation talents in Yunnan Province. There are 29 people in the "ten thousand talents plan" of Yunnan Province, including 1 scientific and technological leader, 1 Yunling scholar, 6 industrial and technological leaders, 4 famous teachers, 1 cultural master and 16 young top-notch talents. There is a national college Huang Danian style teacher team and six excellent teaching teams in Yunnan Province.

 

12 provincial famous teachers: Li genqian, Qiu Jian, Chen Yuhui, Wen Bing, Wang Jin, Du fan, Zhi Ling, Wu Jianrong, Zhou Wei, Wang Keqin, Xu Hui and pan Yongzhi

 

Teaching construction

quality engineering

As of September 2019, the university has 3 national first class specialty, 4 national excellent agriculture and forestry talents training plan specialty, 3 national excellent engineer training plan specialty, 7 provincial characteristic specialty, 1 national excellent course, 1 national excellent resource sharing course, 19 provincial excellent courses, 2 provincial excellent video open courses and 10 provincial excellent resource sharing courses.

 

National and provincial specialty

 

There are 8 key construction specialties in Yunnan Province: forestry, forest resources protection and Recreation (forest protection), wood science and engineering, landscape architecture, soil and water conservation and desertification control, forest engineering, agricultural and forestry economic management, biotechnology

National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center (1): basic experimental teaching center of forestry specialty

 

Provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers (8)

 

Excellent courses

 

Yunnan teaching team (6)

 

Yunnan Province Talent Training Mode Innovation Experimental Zone (4)

 

Bilingual demonstration course in Yunnan Province (1 course): dendrology (Qin Jiali)

 

Teaching achievements

As of September 2019, the university has won one second prize of national teaching achievement award and 12 provincial teaching achievement awards. More than 470 provincial and ministerial quality engineering projects have been approved.

 

Discipline construction

As of September 2019, the university has 3 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 13 first-class discipline master's degree authorization points, 66 second-class discipline master's degree authorization points, 8 professional master's degree authorization points, 6 key disciplines of the State Forestry and grassland administration, 1 cultivation discipline, 5 provincial key disciplines, 2 provincial advantageous characteristic key construction disciplines, and co construction of provincial colleges and universities There are 2 disciplines, 1 A-type peak discipline, 2 B-type peak disciplines, 1 B-type peak discipline advantage characteristic research direction and 2 A-type plateau disciplines. It has three provincial-level authorization points for cultivating and constructing academic doctorate, five for cultivating and constructing academic master's degree, and four for cultivating and constructing professional master's degree.

 

Key subjects

 

Award of master's and doctor's degrees

First class discipline doctoral degree

 

List of authorized disciplines for master's degree

 

List of authorized disciplines for master's degree

 

Cooperation and exchange

As of September 2019, the university has signed cooperation agreements with more than 60 universities and research institutions in 21 countries and regions including Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. The Confucius Institute of Bamako University of Humanities in Mali has been established, and the Confucius Classroom in Mali has won the global advanced Confucius Classroom award. It has been approved to have the undergraduate education project of mechanical and electronic engineering in cooperation with Russia's South Ural National University. We signed a cooperation agreement with the Forestry College of Columbia University (UBC) in Canada to build a new Asia Pacific Forestry College in the University. It signed cooperation agreements with Beijing Forestry University, Chinese Academy of Forestry Sciences, Alibaba cloud computing Co., Ltd. and Pu'er City, and was approved as the Kunming center of Asia Pacific forest organization.

 

academic research

Scientific research platform

According to the official website of the University in September 2014, the university has successively built one national plateau wetland research center, one Yunnan Biodiversity Research Institute, one Collaborative Innovation Center for cultivation and utilization of forest resources in Yunnan, eight provincial and ministerial key laboratories (engineering centers), two ecological positioning stations of the State Forestry Administration, one Yunnan philosophy and social science research base, and one National Forestry Bureau timber research center There is one quality inspection and Testing Center for wood and bamboo products, and five key laboratories (Engineering Research Center) in Yunnan universities. In addition, there are 3 provincial science and technology innovation teams, 4 University Science and technology innovation teams in Yunnan Province, and 2 philosophy and social science innovation teams in Yunnan Province.

 

List of scientific research institutions

 

List of innovation teams

 

Scientific research achievements

In 2019, the university has been approved 728 scientific research projects with a research contract fund of nearly 160 million yuan. The project of "key technology for energy saving and high efficiency of wood-based panel continuous flat pressing production line" won the second prize of national science and technology progress award. He won 2 second prizes of the 10th Liangxi science and technology progress award, 8 Yunnan Science and Technology Award and Yunnan philosophy and social science outstanding achievement award.

 

In 2020, the school has been approved 25 projects, including 1 outstanding youth project, 2 outstanding youth projects, 5 key projects and 5 general projects

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