Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University (HBAU), one of the public universities in Heilongjiang province, was founded in July 1958, with former Vice President of P. R. China, then Minister of Agriculture, General Wang Zhen serving as its first president. It used to be under administration of Minister of Agriculture. Since 1973, HBAU has been under administration of Heilongjiang provincial government. With its long history of education and profound cultural background, after 63-year construction and development, HBAU has become a multi-subject comprehensive agricultural university with its focus on advantageous agricultural disciplines, which is an irreplaceable and important base for talent-cultivating and scientific innovation for provincial agricultural and rural development.
HBAU was founded in the midst of historical circumstances when tens of thousands of demobilized soldiers were deployed to explore the Great Northern Wilderness. The original site of the university is located in the rural area of Peide Town, Mishan City, where the university has inherited and carried forward the pioneer spirit, overcome tremendous hardship, and struggled to develop a road of self-improvement for the first 45 years. In 2003, HBAU was relocated to Daqing City and has since entered a new era of rapid development with great strides. Over the years, the university has gradually formed its own school motto: working hard, dedication, pursuing the truth, and shouldering burdens while carrying on. It has received wide acclaim from the community for its excellent school ethos and contribution to the society.
HBAU is currently located in Daqing High-Tech Industrial Development Zone, covering a total area of 1.2 million square meters, with a total building area of 407,000 square meters. The total assets of the university have reached 1.34 billion yuan, including teaching and research equipment that are worth 336 million yuan, and the collection of the university library is over 2 million books and journals. HBAU currently employs 1,467 faculty and staff members including 953 full-time teachers, among them 183 are professors, and 269 associate professors. 375 of the faculty members have earned doctoral degrees, accounting for 39.3%; and 133 teachers have studied overseas for at least one year, accounting for 14.0%. HBAU is currently home to a number of teachers and scholars with high—level titles, which formed well balanced, excellent quality, vigorous and high level teaching faculty, with the representative of Yangtze River Scholar, the Thousand Talents Plan, Ten—thousand Talents Plan, LongJiang Scholar,Outstanding Contribution to Middle-aged and Young Experts at the national level and National Excellent Teachers.Relying on the strong discipline strength and advantageous teaching and research resources, HBAU insists on the university-running concept of “Taking serving local economic and social development as its mission”. HBAU has a leading team for the research and development of green production and food deep processing technology of coarse grains in Heilongjiang Province, 3 provincial teaching teams, 6 provincial leading talent echelons, 21 leading talent echelons of the General Administration of Agricultural Reclamation, and 4 scientific and technological innovation universities teams of Heilongjiang Provi