Gansu Agricultural University University, located in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, is a University jointly built by the Ministry of agriculture and the people's Government of Gansu Province, a key construction university in Gansu Province, an excellent university for undergraduate teaching level evaluation by the Ministry of education, a university built by the national "basic ability construction project for universities in central and Western China", one of the first batch of Pilot Universities for the reform of the national "education and training plan for outstanding agricultural and forestry talents", and a national high-level university It is one of the top 100 universities in the central and western regions of China.The predecessor of the school is the national veterinary college founded in Lanzhou in October 1946. In 1950, it was renamed northwest Veterinary College; in 1951, it was renamed northwest animal husbandry and Veterinary College; in 1958, it merged with Gansu Agricultural College to establish Gansu Agricultural University. In June 2012, the people's Government of Gansu Province and the Ministry of agriculture signed an agreement to jointly build Gansu Agricultural University. Since 1953, the university has been recruiting graduate students. It is one of the first batch of bachelor's and master's degree awarding units in China, and the second batch of doctor's degree awarding units.As of January 2019, the University covers an area of 1.65 million square meters, with a building area of 690000 square meters. It has 24 Colleges (Teaching Department), 63 undergraduate majors, 5 national characteristic majors, 1 national key discipline, 1 key discipline of the Ministry of agriculture and 13 provincial key disciplines, and 5 post doctoral research stations, There are 8 first-class discipline doctoral programs, 32 second-class discipline doctoral programs, 15 first-class discipline master programs, 69 second-class discipline master programs, and 8 professional degree master programs; there are 1 national key laboratory cultivation base, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 6 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 33 provincial key laboratories (engineering centers), and more than 1400 teaching staff There are more than 1100 full-time teachers, including more than 500 people with senior professional titles, more than 16700 ordinary undergraduate students and more than 2000 master's and doctoral students.