Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering

The university, formerly known as Zhongkai Agricultural and Industrial School, was found in 1927. In March 2008, approved by the Ministry of Education, the university is renamed as Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering. In the past 80 years, the university has cultivated a group of talented people, including agro-technicians, experts, scholars, as well as leading cadres at provincial and ministerial level. Among them there are Zeng Yitao, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chen Yaobang, the former agriculture Minister and Zhang Liangchi, May Day Labor medalist. At present, the university has a total coverage of 275 acres, with the Haizhu campus covering 44 acres, Baiyun campus covering 149 acres and the experimental farm in Zhongcun covering 82 acres. The area of structure in Haizhu campus is 43acres. The area under construction for the first stage in Baiyun campus is 35 acres. The university is recruiting students from eight provinces in the country. The number of full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students totals 9183; the number of part-time students amounts to 3065. The existing teaching and research equipments worth 118,410,000 RMB, averaging a value of 5671.19 RMB for each student. The library has 1,080,000 volumes of books, 820,600 of which are paper-based books, averaging 80.01 volumes for each student. The number of electronic books is 259,300.