South China Agricultural University

South China Agricultural University (SCAU; ) is a provincial public university located in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.The university is affiliated with the Province of Guangdong, and co-sponsored by the provincial government and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. It is part of the Double First Class University Plan. History 1909 - Guangdong province's agricultural experiment station and Affiliated Institute of Agriculture was founded. 1917 - Guangdong Province Public Agricultural School, and began to set up agricultural major(4-year degree). 1924 - Incorporated into Guangdong University, as College of Agriculture. 1926 - Rename to College of Agriculture, National Sun Yat-sen University. 1931 - Sun Yat sen University prepared to build a new campus in Shipai, and totally received about 3.5 square kilometers of land in the north of Shipai, The College of Agricultural college starts to develop rapidly. 1952 - The nationwide readjustments of university and college resources took place in 1952. And the South China Agricultural College was established, through a reorganization process that unified the agricultural schools and departments of universities from 2 provinces in Southern China, including the former National Sun Yat-sen University, Lingnan University, Guangxi University. 1979 - It was selected as one of National Key Universities. 1984 - The university was renamed as South China Agricultural University in 1984. 2000 - The university was transferred under the administration of Guangdong Province in 2000 during the reform of the management system of higher learning institutions. 2015 - Selected as a Cultivated High-level University of Guangdong Province. 2022 - Became one of the Double First-Class Universities in Double First Class University Plan. Campus The campus of South China Agricultural University is located in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, it used to be part of the old National Sun Yat-sen University campus. The main campus covers an area of over 4407 mu ( 2.95 km²), and the teaching and research base in Zengcheng covers an area of over 3863 mu ( 2.57 km²). The campus is informally divided into three parts by the South China expressway, with viaduct and culvert connected. Architecture The campus still retains part of the architecture of old National Sun Yat-sen University, and the rest of them are in South China University of Technology, the whole complex is just like a bell.