Overview Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU) is located in the main urban area of Wuhan, Hubei province in central China. It was founded in 1898 during the reign of Emperor Guangxu (1871-1908) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) by Zhang Zhidong,the then-governor of Hubei and Hunan provinces, as the Hubei Farming School in China. [Read More]
History 1898-1911 During the reign of Emperor Guangxu (1871-1908) of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Zhang Zhidong, the then-governor of Hunan and Hubei provinces, established the Hubei Farming School. [Read More]
Leadership Leadership of CPC Committee of HZAU [Read More]
Charter Huazhong Agricultural University(HZAU), formerly known as Hubei Agricultural School, was founded in 1898 and later built into Huazhong Agricultural College in 1952. In 1985, the University got its present name. [Read More]
Organization General Office,Office of Discipline Inspection Commission,Supervision DivisionInspection Work Leading Group Office of CPC HZAU Committee [Read More]
News The latest news and significant events at HZAU will be released. [Read More]
Events Detailed information about upcoming events at HZAU will be released. This includes the latest previews and schedules for academic lectures, forums, competitions, and more. [Read More]
Specials From in-depth features on groundbreaking research and outstanding faculty achievements to behind-the-scenes looks at major events and student success stories, the Specials column provides a rich, immersive experience. [Read More]
Photos and Videos This column showcases the highlights of various cultural activities both on and off campus, including traditional festivals, artistic performances, cultural lectures, and student club activities. [Read More]
Undergraduates The school adheres to the principle of fostering integrity and encouraging people committed to nurturing well-rounded talents who meet the demands of technological, economic, and social development. These talents should be characterized by comprehensive development in moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education. [Read More]
Graduates The university's graduate education dates back to 1953, making it one of the first institutions nationwide authorized to confer doctoral and master's degrees. The university is authorized to grant doctoral degrees in disciplines such as science,engineering, agriculture, and management, with 16 first-level discipline doctoral degree-granting programs and two professional doctoral degree-granting programs (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and Doctor of Biology and Medicine). [Read More]
International Students The education of international students in our school can be traced back to 1960. In 2003, it became the first batch of pilot units in China for "high-level experts to train highly educated international students". Adhering to the principle of "giving priority to quality, optimizing structure and developing with characteristics", our school mainly recruits and trains high-level international students in China around the advantageous and characteristic disciplines such as crop science, horticulture,animal husbandry, veterinary medicine, food science and engineering. [Read More]
Continuing Education The continuing education program at Huazhong Agricultural University began in the early 1950s, initially focusing on short-term training courses for government management departments. In 1960, the university established a correspondence department,marking the beginning of its history in higher agricultural correspondence education. [Read More]
Research Progress The column highlights cutting-edge projects, innovative experiments, and significant discoveries made by our dedicated researchers and scholars. [Read More]
Discipline Construction Over the past three decades, HZAU focused on elevating the agricultural related disciplines with advanced bio-scientific technology while advancing the development of biological disciplines out of its strong root of traditional agricultural disciplines. [Read More]
Institutes HZAU has two national key laboratories, one national-local joint engineering laboratory, four specialized laboratories, and 26 ministerial-level key (engineering) laboratories. [Read More]
Publications The Journal Center of the Academy of Science and Technology Development at Huazhong Agricultural University was established in May 2019. [Read More]
Research Cooperation A relatively stable research collaboration network has been established with over 120 foreign (overseas) research institutions and universities, facilitating substantial international (regional) cooperation in research and exchange. [Read More]
Campus View The campus is located in the main urban area of Wuhan, Hubei province. Nestled on Shizishan and surrounded by lakes on three sides,it spans a 5-square-kilometer picturesque campus with 9 kilometers of romantic lakeside, 10 kilometers of forest roads, and 6.6 kilometers of scenic greenways. [Read More]
Student Life The school boasts extensive facilities for science popularization, sports, and cultural activities, as well as a student activity center. [Read More]
Useful Info HZAU has a fleet of 15 campus tour vehicles, operating on two routes. These vehicles are managed in accordance with industry standards and relevant regulations to provide convenient intra-campus transportation services for all faculty, staff, and students. [Read More]
Library Huazhong Agricultural University Library was established in 1940. It was initially known as the "Hubei Agricultural College Library." [Read More]
Museum The Museum of Huazhong Agricultural University is located at the foot of Shizi Mountain in Wuhan. It is a natural science museum that integrates agriculture, scientific research, and popular science functions. [Read More]
A research team led by Professor Ning Guogui from Huazhong Agricultural University's College of Horticulture and Forestry Sciences has published a significant study in the international journal Cell titled "A de novo originated gene drives rose scent diversification".
A research team led by Professor Li Guoliang from Huazhong Agricultural University, in collaboration with Professor Chen Hao's team from Southern University of Science and Technology, has successfully developed the world's first comprehensive dinoflagellate multi-omics database, known as DinoSource.
A research team led by professor Yang Chao from Huazhong Agricultural University's National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, in collaboration with France's INRAE, has identified a molecular mechanism that drives rapid chromosome movement during early meiosis in plants.
A recent study led by Professor Kenichi Tsuda's team at Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU) has uncovered the evolutionary origin of a major plant immune pathway, offering critical insight into how plants evolved to defend themselves.
A review paper by three undergraduates – Wang Chenyu, Zuo Chaoying, and Su Zihan – from Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU) has been accepted by the 28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2025), a leading international conference in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
A team from Huazhong Agricultural University published a research paper titled "Rab27a regulates the transport of influenza virus membrane proteins to the plasma membrane" in the journal Nature Communications on July 8.
When aspirin is used in combination with antidiabetic drugs, is there a risk of drug interactions? Intelligent systems may hold the key to resolving such critical challenges related to combined medication that directly impact patients' medication safety in the future.
The pesticide toxicology and pest resistance team, led by Professor Li Jianhong from Huazhong Agricultural University's College of Plant Science & Technology, has recently published a research paper titled "Upregulation of a cytochrome P450 gene, CYP6B50, confers multi-insecticide resistance in Spodoptera frugiperda" in the Journal of Advanced Research.
Professor Ren Xifeng's team at Huazhong Agricultural University published a research paper titled "Unraveling the regulatory network of barley grain metabolism through the integrative analysis of multiomics and mQTL" in Nature Communications.
The crop phenotyping team at Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU) has published a research paper titled "EU-GAN: A root inpainting network for improving 2D soil-cultivated root phenotyping" in the journal Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture.
The National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology of Huazhong Agricultural University, in collaboration with the Hubei Hongshan Laboratory and Professor Shen Bang's team from the College of Veterinary Medicine of HZAU, recently published a research paper entitled "Regulation of the developmental programs in Toxoplasma by a novel SNF2L-containing chromatin remodeling complex" in Nature Communications.
Researchers at Huazhong Agricultural University have made significant progress in applying mid-infrared spectroscopy to rapidly and accurately predict amino acid content in milk, paving the way for high-throughput analysis in dairy cow breeding and milk quality enhancement.
Huazhong Agricultural University's machine learning and computer vision team recently achieved a major advancement in 3D object retrieval. Their paper, titled Describe, Adapt and Combine: Empowering CLIP Encoders for Open-set 3D Object Retrieval, was accepted for presentation at ICCV 2025, one of the top international conferences in computer vision.
HZAU has made a breakthrough in space weather forecasting. Li Junpei, a 2021 undergraduate at the College of Informatics, is the first author of a paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, a top astronomy journal.
A research team at Huazhong Agricultural University, in collaboration with the Yazhouwan National Laboratory, the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, has uncovered a critical lipid remodeling pathway that helps plants adapt to phosphate deficiency.
A research team from Huazhong Agricultural University has made significant progress in mitigating canopy urban heat island intensity (CUHII) at the neighborhood scale.
A research team from Huazhong Agricultural University's National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology and Hubei Hongshan Laboratory has identified a novel mechanism that enables tomatoes to resist major bacterial and fungal pathogens.
A team led by professor Zhou Hongbo at Huazhong Agricultural University has uncovered a critical host protein that regulates influenza virus trafficking and uncoating within cells, offering new insights into antiviral strategies.
A research team from HZAU has published a paper titled Pangenome analysis reveals yield-and fiber-related diversity and interspecific gene flow in Gossypium barbadense L. in the journal Nature Communications. The study sheds new light on the genetic foundations of fiber quality and yield, paving the way for high-end cotton breeding.