Shanxi Agricultural University University, SXAU, or Shanxi Agricultural University for short, is a national key university jointly built by the people's Government of Shanxi Province and the Ministry of agriculture and rural areas of the people's Republic of China. It is one of the first batch of universities authorized with master's degree and the Seventh Batch authorized with doctor's degree. It is one of the first batch of Pilot Universities of "education and training plan for outstanding talents in agriculture and forestry" in China. It is an excellent university of undergraduate teaching evaluation of the Ministry of education, and has been selected as one of the national key universities The first batch of demonstration universities to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education, the national "Midwest university basic capacity building project" universities, the National College Students' innovation and entrepreneurship training plan implementation universities, the national agricultural and rural informatization demonstration base, the comprehensive reform pilot universities of higher education in Shanxi Province, the "1331 project" universities in Shanxi Province, the provincial mass entrepreneurship and innovation demonstration base, and the CDIO project Member units of the Education Alliance.Founded in 1907, the school was initially named private Mingxian school, founded by Kong Xiangxi, and later developed into private Mingxian agricultural and industrial college and private Mingxian College; in 1951, it was changed from private to public, and Shanxi Agricultural College was established; in 1979, it was renamed as Shanxi Agricultural University, which was listed as a national key university.As of November 2018, the University covers an area of 2243 mu; it has 16 teaching units and 63 undergraduate majors; it has more than 1700 teaching staff and 1086 full-time teachers; it has a collection of more than 1 million Chinese paper documents; it has 24518 full-time students; it has 9 first-class doctoral degree authorization points and 14 first-class master degree authorization points.