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History: Founded in 1932, the School of Forestry is one of the oldest schools of Guangxi University. Famous forestry educators and scientists such as Chen Huanyong and Ma Dapu were the main founders of the school. Over the past 90 years, the school has gone through numerous hardships, including 12 relocations to places such as Wuzhou, Guizhou, Guilin, and Mingyang, as well as 6 name changes. However, faculty and students of the School of Forestry have always maintained a positive attitude, overcoming difficulties and working hard to blaze a new trail in teaching and research.

Faculty: The School of Forestry has about 70 full-time faculty members, including 2 national high-level talents, 1 recipient of the special government allowance from the State Council, 2 members of the Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, 1 national outstanding teacher in forestry and grassland, and 1 professor with the prestigious title of Guangxi Bagui Young Scholar. All faculty members hold a doctoral degree, and 60% of the faculty members are professors or associate professors. All faculty members are doctoral and/or master supervisors.

Discipline and Degree Programs: The School of Forestry offers a doctoral program in Ecology, a postdoctoral research station in Ecology, 2 academic master degree programs in Ecology and Forestry, and 2 professional master degree programs in Forestry Industry and Landscape Architecture. In the fourth and fifth rounds of national discipline evaluations, the doctoral program in Ecology received a rating of B-, and the Environmental Science/Ecology discipline has entered successively among Top 1% on ESI rankings.

Education Reform and Talent Cultivation: The School of Forestry offers undergraduate programs in forestry and ecology, with more than 650 full-time undergraduate students, and over 560 graduate students. The college has trained more than 30,000 senior specialized professionals for the country. Forestry has been rated as a first-class discipline for national undergraduate programs, a national Education and Cultivation Program for Talents in Agriculture and Forestry, a national featured program, a distinctive advantageous program in Guangxi, and a Guangxi demonstration specialty for innovation and entrepreneurship education reform. Ecology is a distinctive advantageous major in Guangxi. In the past five years, the School has obtained 5 national-level and 4 provincial-level awards, over 10 teaching reform achievements, and more than 10 gold prize, first prize, and silver awards in competitions such as the National “Internet +” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition for College Students and the “Challenge Cup” National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology Works by Race. In 2020, the forestry major was selected in building a national first-class major. The project “Exploration and Practice of the New Agricultural Science Intelligent Teaching Model Based on Intelligent Simulation and Digitization” was included in the New Agricultural Science Research and Reform Practice Project of the Ministry of Education. The “Guangxi Forestry Talent’s Joint Training Base” was approved as a provincial and ministerial joint training base. In 2019, the teaching reform conducted by the School “Reform and Exploration of Improving Forestry-related Majors’ Innovative Practical Ability through Simulation, Digitization, and Intelligence Based on the Integration of Science and Education” won the special prize award of the Guangxi Teaching Achievement.