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Northeast Forestry University is a multidisciplinary university with Forestry as its dominant discipline and Forestry Engineering as the characteristic focus. It is situated in Harbin, the center of the largest state-owned forest region in China. The main campus covers 136 hectares. NEFU also has the Mao’ershan Experimental Forest Farm (also known as Mao’ershan National Forest Park), the Liangshui Experimental Forest Farm (Liangshui National Natural Reserve), and other education, research and practice bases. The total area of the university reaches 33,000 hectares.

Northeast Forestry University was founded in July, 1952 from the combination of the Department of Forestry, College of Agriculture in Zhejiang University and the Department of Forestry in Northeast Agricultural College. It was originally named Northeast Forestry College directly under the administration of the Ministry of Forestry. It was renamed Northeast Forestry University in August, 1985, and was put under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education in February, 2000. After the approval by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Education, it is entitled to enjoy support from several of the country’s initiatives, including the “Project 211” (The Chinese Government’s endeavor aiming at strengthening approximately 100 institutions of higher education and key disciplinary areas as a national priority for the 21st century) in October, 2005 and the “Project 985 Innovation Platform for Advantageous Disciplines” in June, 2011. It is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Education and the State Forestry Administration according to their agreement in November, 2010, and by the Ministry of Education and the People’s Government of Heilongjiang Province in the light of the agreement in March, 2012. The NEFU was included in the “double first-class project” ( “world-class university” and “world-class discipline”) approved by the State Council in September, 2017. In February 2022, it was in the second list of universities and disciplines included in the “double world-class project”.

Presently, there are more than 30,000 students studying at NEFU, including 19,691 undergraduates and 10,463 graduate students. It has 2,400 faculty members, 1,379 of whom are full-time teachers. Currently, NEFU is comprised of a Graduate School, 20 colleges and 1 teaching department offering programs ranging from bachelor’s degrees to doctoral degrees. There are 73 bachelor’s degree programs, 9 first-level doctoral degree disciplines, 17 first-level master’s degree disciplines. There are2 international first-class construction disciplines which are Forestry and Forestry Engineering, and 4 national first-level construction disciplines which are Biology, Ecology, Landscape Architecture, Agriculture and Forestry Economic Management.

NEFU develops international exchange and cooperation in a positive attitude, and has established cooperative relationships with over 100 universities and research institutes of more than 30 countries and regions. NEFU has educated a number of excellent international students from over 100 countries of 5 continents, as one of the admission universities for international students sponsored by the Chinese Government Scholarship.