中国农业大学校史英文介绍CAU History (brief)-fn

中国农业大学校史英文介绍

Welcome to the museum! .................................................................................................................. 1

First Floor.......................................................................................................................................... 1

Second Floor ..................................................................................................................................... 6

Part I from the Agriculture University of Peking Imperial University to the Agriculture

College of Peking University ............................................................................................ 6 Part II From the Agricultural School of Tsinghua College to the Agricultural College of

Tsinghua University ........................................................................................................ 12 Part III From Yan'an Natural Science Academy in Yan'an to the Agriculture College of

North China University ................................................................................................... 13 Part IV Beijing Agriculture University, Beijing Agricultural Mechanization Institute and

China Agriculture University .......................................................................................... 15

Welcome to the museum!

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Welcome to the university history museum of China Agricultural University!

I am your interpreter today. My name is ABC. I'm from the college of FGI. My major is OPQ.

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First Floor

1. The 100th anniversary

CAU is one of the top ranked key state universities in China and directly

subordinated to the Ministry of Education.

It is also the oldest agricultural higher education institution in China. The history of this university can date back to 1905, and in the year of 2005, CAU celebrated her 100th anniversary.

Look at the picture in the front middle. It is the grand occasion of the Centennial Celebration as well as World Agriculture Congress opening ceremony. A total of more than 300 delegates from 128 universities, colleges and institutes of 24 countries participated in the event. It was held at the Great Hall of the People on Tian'anmen Square, where the National People's Congress holds its sessions every year! The congratulation letter from the president Hu Jintao and Premier WEN Jiabao.

It was the greatest honor for CAU to receive warm congratulations and personal

中国农业大学校史英文介绍

greetings from President HU Jintao and Premier WEN Jiabao. The president's written congratulatory message highly commended important contribution CAU made to

China’s total development, and encouraged CAU students and faculty to achieve more in the construction of the new socialist countryside and a prosperous society.

2. State Leaders & CAU

Agriculture is the foundation for national development in China, and the state leaders, including former Chairman MAO Zedong, President HU Jintao, and Premier of State Council WEN Jiabao all attached great importance and showed personal care to the development of CAU, they conducted respective inspection tours to CAU and encouraged the faculty and students to better serve the country and the people, especially farmers in rural areas.

The latest visit of state leaders was in May, 2009, when President HU Jintao came here to celebrate the Youth Day with the students. He emphasized the importance of food for a nation and its people and expected CAU students to continuously follow the university motto: Tackle the problems the people face, Cultivate talents that can serve the world. President Hu also delivered a speech that day to the youth of the whole nation, in which he hoped all youth in China should be patriotic, work hard with both their studies and practice, and make their contribution to the country. The first tractor made in China

In 1958, Chairman MAO investigated the first tractor made in China, in whose design and build the staff and faculty of CAU played significant roles. Mao commented that mechanization was the way out for agricultural development in China.

Interestingly, the first driver of the tractor, also the first female tractor driver in PRC was a CAU graduate, whose portrait was once printed on China's one-Yuan bill of the third edition of RMB.

Former President Jiang Zemin's Inscription

"中国农业大学", the six characters on top of the main buildings of both east and west campus, was written by former President JIANG Zemin in 1995.

Premier WEN's visit

On May 2nd, 2003, the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndromes) year,

accompanied by former Vice President Wu Yi, Premier WEN Jiabao visited CAU and delivered a brief but very encouraging speech.

(From Nov., 2002 to Aug. 5th, 2003, there were 8,422 patients diagnosed with SARS, 916 of whom died of the disease. The death rate is 9.3%. )

3. Scientific research achievements

中国农业大学校史英文介绍

published papers, funded projects, patents, and awards

Major biological engineering achievements:

Dwarf chicken are chicken with dwarf genes programmed into the multiplication of chicken. These chicken eat less because of their small size but lay more eggs because of their superior genes, and thus decrease the production cost of eggs.

The mother pig on this picture can give more piglets than ordinary mother pigs. It was the result of a project on the discovery and research of FSHβ genes, a kind of genes that can increase the number of piglets of a litter.

A cloned ox was created successfully by Li Ning, the director of China's State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, and his team in 2002. The latest achievement of the lab is cl …… 此处隐藏：30163字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……