Anhui Agricultural University is located in the central city of Hefei, the capital of Anhui Province. It is a provincial key university. It is jointly constructed by the Ministry of agriculture and rural areas of the people's Republic of China, the State Forestry and grassland administration and the people's Government of Anhui Province. It has been selected into the National Central and Western Universities' basic capacity-building project, new engineering research and practice project, university discipline innovation talent introduction plan, and excellent agriculture and forestry talents teaching program It has become one of the first batch of "characteristic high-level universities" construction universities in the higher education revitalization plan of Anhui Province and the key supporting universities in the discipline construction plan of Anhui Province. It has the qualification of recommending exam free graduate students and the right of self-examination of associate professors. It also has the first national key laboratory and international cooperation joint experiment of Anhui provincial universities And national international science and technology cooperation base.The predecessor of Anhui Agricultural University is Anhui provincial university founded in Anqing, the former capital of Anhui Province, in 1928. In 1939, it was forced to suspend due to the outbreak of the Anti Japanese war. In 1945, it rebuilt the national Anhui University, became an independent Anhui Agricultural College in 1954, became one of the first batch of authorized units for master's degree in 1979, changed its name to Anhui Agricultural University in 1995, and was approved by the State Council as the authorized unit for doctor's degree in 1998 It has become one of the four high-level universities supported by Anhui Province.As of April 2020, the scientific research funding of Anhui Agricultural University has ranked first in Anhui Provincial Universities for five consecutive years. There are 19 colleges with 80 undergraduate majors, 5 postdoctoral research mobile stations, 8 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 25 first-class discipline master degree authorization points, and 7 kinds of professional degree master authorization points 22900 (including 194 international students), including 3703 master's and doctoral students. There are 1837 in-service teaching staff, including 724 professors, associate professors and other senior professional and technical positions, more than 800 doctoral and master's supervisors, and 11 national level talents and 26 provincial-level talents.