Xinjiang Agricultural University, located in Urumqi, is a key agricultural university in Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Its predecessor is Xinjiang Bayi Agricultural University. It was established in 1952 by General Wang Zhen with the consent of Chairman Mao and the Central Military Commission. It is the first undergraduate university established in Xinjiang after the establishment of new China. On April 21, 1995, with the approval of the former State Education Commission, it was renamed Xinjiang Agricultural University.Xinjiang Agricultural University is a University jointly built by the State Forestry Administration and the people's Government of the autonomous region. It has been selected into the basic ability construction project of universities in the central and western regions, the public postgraduate project of national construction of high-level universities, the national "key discipline project with characteristics", the first batch of Pilot Universities of the reform of the national "education and training plan for outstanding agricultural and forestry talents", the "education and training plan for outstanding engineers" of the Ministry of education, and the national key discipline project It is a base of College Students' cultural quality education and a member of the National Agricultural University Alliance along the silk road. Xinjiang Agricultural University is supported by Nanjing Agricultural University, Beijing Forestry University, Hehai University, China Agricultural University, Northwest University of agriculture and forestry science and technology, Jiangnan University, Hefei University of technology and Southwest Jiaotong University.As of January 2020, the school headquarters covers an area of about 1500 mu, with 6 school affiliated practice bases, including Nanshan practice forest farm and Sanping farm teaching practice base, covering more than 90000 mu, and 152 off campus teaching practice bases. The fixed assets of the school are 1.233 billion yuan, the value of teaching and scientific research instruments is 268 million yuan, and the total building area of the school is 654700 square meters. There are 6 post doctoral research mobile stations, 8 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 17 first-class discipline master degree authorization points, 7 Professional Degree Master authorization points, and 59 undergraduate majors, which are distributed in 7 disciplines, including agriculture, science, engineering, economics, management, arts and law. There are 20 colleges, 1 teaching department, 1776 teaching staff and 24649 full-time students.