“巍巍农学，拳拳赤心；稼穑五谷，树艺嘉禾”，开元官方网站奠基于1928年，近百年风雨兼程，积淀了崇学事农底蕴；近百年奋发图强，锤炼着求实创新精神。在王绶、吕世霖、李焕章、苗果园等国内外著名专家感召下，农学人秉承“敬业乐教，严谨治学，注重实践，甘于奉献”的优良传统，取得了丰硕成果，为各行业培养了大批优秀人才。

“潮平风正两岸阔，舵稳心齐一帆悬”，2020年，在合署改革的大背景下，开元官方网站和原农科院作物所合并，新的开元官方网站扬帆启航。学院党委在校党委的坚强领导下，带领全院党员师生以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想及党的十九大、十九届二中、三中、四中、五中、六中全会精神为指导，学习领会习近平总书记“七一”重要讲话精神、关于加强高校党建工作的重要论述、给全国涉农高校的书记校长和专家代表的重要回信和批示精神，贯彻落实省委省政府关于山西农业大学和山西省农业科学院合署改革的决策部署，创新实施“五力提升”党建工程，积极拓展“党建+”项目工作法，着力打造“红色·青春·兴农”党建品牌，组织实施“院办校”改革，探索二级法人治理模式，全方位推动学院高质量发展。

学院现有教职工241人，其中博士生导师32人，教授22人，研究员17人、副教授39人，副研究员37人；有国家级各类人才10人次、省部级各类人才70余人次，从美国加州大学、英国诺丁汉大学等国际著名高校引进人才11人，聘请中国工程院张福锁院士为学术院长，中国科学院赵其国院士为功能农业研究院名誉院长，努力把学生培养为德智体美劳全面发展、业务本领过硬、综合能力突出、“顶天立地”的新型农科人才。

经过近百年的发展，学院形成了本、硕、博“三位一体”的多层次教育体系。现有农学、农学（功能农业方向）、种子科学与工程、智慧农业4个本科专业（方向），本硕统筹班1个，公费农科生班1个。农学专业为国家一流专业建设点、国家特色专业、省级品牌专业和优势专业；种子科学与工程专业为省级一流专业。有作物学一级学科博士学位授权点和博士后科研流动站，作物栽培学与耕作学、作物遗传育种学2个二级学科博士点和5个硕士学位授权点。现有本科生1300余名，硕士研究生600余名，博士研究生50余名。

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Introduction to College of Agriculture

College of Agriculture of Shanxi Agricultural University was founded in 1928. After nearly a hundred years of courageous exploration, it has accumulated the heritage of working hard and serving the cause of agriculture; after nearly a century of perseverant diligence, it has tempered the spirit of truth-seeking and innovation. Inspired by well-known experts at home and abroad such as Wang Shou, Lv Shilin, Li Huanzhang, Miao Guoyuan, etc., the college upholds the precious tradition of "dedicated to teaching, rigorous to study, focus on practice, and willing to contribute", and has achieved fruitful results, cultivating a large number of excellent talents for various industries. In 2020, in the context of the reform of the joint office, the new College of Agriculture set sail by combination of the old College of Agriculture and the former Crop Institute of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

The College has 6 internal institutions such as Office of Party and Administration Affairs, Youth League Sub-Committee, Section of Educational Affairs, Section of Scientific Research and Service, Section of Personnel, and Section of Finance and Assets, embraces 5 departments including Agronomy, Genetics and Breeding, Functional Agriculture, Seed Science, and Plant Science, possesses 9 laboratories including Maize, Wheat, Millet, Minor Cereals, Rice, Crop Genetics, Oil and Cash Crop, Soybean, and Physiology and Cultivation. The faculty members are 241 , including 32 doctoral supervisors, 22 professors, 17 researchers, 39 associate professors, and 37 associate researchers; there are 10 national-level talents and more than 70 provincial and ministerial-level talents. 11 people have been introduced from internationally renowned universities such as the University of California in the US and the University of Nottingham in the UK. Academician Zhang Fusuo of the Chinese Academy of Engineering is hired as the academic dean, and academician Zhao Qiguo of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is the honorary dean of the Institute of Functional Agriculture. The number of students in the college is 1972, consisting of 1353 undergraduates, 573 master degree candidates, and 46 doctoral candidates.

The college owns doctoral degree authorization points and post-doctoral research stations in the first-level discipline of crop science, 2 second-level doctoral degree programs and 5 master's degree authorization points. The scientific research foundation of the college is solid, possessing a number of provincial and ministerial teaching and research platforms such as the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center for Plant Production, the Collaborative Innovation Center for High-quality and Efficient Production of Characteristic Crops on the Loess Plateau Mutually Constructed by Province and Ministry, the National Center for Functional Minor Cereal Technology Innovation, and the Scientific Observation and Experimental Station for Crop Cultivation and Cultivated Land Conservation in the Loess Plateau of North China. It also has 5 key laboratories, comprehensive experimental buildings, modern multi-span greenhouses and other facilities, and the experimental field covers an area of more than 50 hectares. It undertook more than 300 national, provincial and ministerial projects, more than 50 appraisal achievements, and received more than 30 provincial and ministerial awards.

For nearly a hundred years of development, the college has formed a multi-level education system composed of undergraduate, master, and doctoral degrees. In the college, there are 4 undergraduate majors (directions) of Agronomy, Agronomy (Functional Agriculture), Seed Science and Engineering, and Smart Agriculture, 1 undergraduate-master coherence class, and 1 state-funded agricultural student class. The major of Agronomy is the construction point of the National First-class Majors, the National Characteristic Major, the Provincial Brand Major and Advantageous Major; the major of Seed Science and Engineering is one of the Provincial First-class Majors.

Achievements of jobs on masses and groups are remarkable in the college. The branch union of the college won the honorary title of "Worker Pioneer" of Education, Science, Culture, Health and Sports System of Shanxi Province in 2019 and the honorary title of "Model Workers' Small Family" of Education, Science, Culture, Health and Sports System of Shanxi Province in 2021. The Youth League Sub-Committee of the college won honorary titles such as “Provincial May 4th Red Flag Youth League Branch”, and jobs of Youth League has been listed on the top in the university for many years. An innovation and entrepreneurship park for college students was constructed by the college, and a large number of entrepreneurial models such as “Stars of College Students on Self-improvement” Ma Hongjun, Jin Yonggui, Huang Chao, and Wang Dongming have emerged, reported by Xinhua News Agency and many other media.

At present, the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way and marching towards the second centenary goal has begun. New journey, new mission, and new atmosphere inspire the whole college to be united for concentration of strength, to be with dreams for setting sail. We will actively practice the concept of New Development, open up new development patterns, strive to achieve new performances, new accomplishments, and promote the high-quality development of the college! Praise the glorious years and respond to the great era!