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Founded in 1958 nearly 50 years ago, Zhejiang Forestry University (ZFU) is a general university directly under auspices of Zhejiang Province offering bachelor and master degrees in agriculture, technology, science, literature, management, law, economics and medicine etc and enrolling international students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Region. The present President is Professor Zhang Qisheng, a Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

ZFU, located in Lin’an city (west of the popular tourist destination Hangzhou) has Yijin and East Lake campuses covering nearly 167 hectares with nearly 600,000 square meters of building space. Its modern buildings and facilities in a setting of great natural beauty surrounded by mountains and water make ZFU a most suitable place for learning, teaching and research. Combination of the campus and botanical garden makes it an ecological campus with the functions of teaching, scientific research and biodiversity conservation.

ZFU has 16 teaching schools, colleges and division: School of Agriculture and Food Science, School of Forestry and Biotechnology, School of Environmental Science and Technology, School of Engineering, School of Landscape Architecture, School of Economics and Management, School of Humanities, School of Information and Engineering, School of Foreign Languages, School of Tourism and Health, School of Tea Culture, School of Science, School of Art Design, International College, Continuing Education College and Division of Physical & Military Training. It has 47 undergraduate majors, among them 1 national characteristic major and 8 key provincial major. ZFU also has national excellent subjects, 11 provincial excellent subjects and 1 Provincial Experimental Teaching Demonstrate Center. It is authorized to award 1 first-class master’s degree in forestry engineering and 15 second-class master's degrees in science, technology, literature, management, agriculture, law etc.

ZFU boasts a 1,400 strong team of staff and faculty, of which 900 are teachers, two are shared academicians, 1 is elected among the national new century talent pool, two are professors specially engaged by the provincial government, 54 are included in the 151 talent-cultivating program, 18 are discipline leading teachers among the province-wide universities, 195 are qualified to tutor graduates, more than 40 are provincial outstanding teachers, 1 is entitled as prominent teacher in term of professional ethics by the state.

Plus 1 provincial discipline of utmost importance, 7 key disciplines at provincial level and 8 disciplines with qualification to accredit assistant professorship, there are also highly-developed research institutes, such as a Forest-breeding Center of State Forestry administration, a provincial key lab, an engineering center and 2 provincial key Science and technology Innovation Service Platforms. In the past five years, about 1,527 projects have been carried out at the university. Research funding has reached 194 million RMB, with more than 25 projects receiving national and provincial awards. Among them, Production Technology and Application of Sliced Bamboo Veneer won Second Prize for National Technology Invention Award in 2007. In addition, ZFU also won Second Prize for National Technology Progress Award as a key participant in another project. Moreover, ZFU has won First Prize for Science and Technology Awards at provincial level for three consecutive years. Up to now, among the 2,426 academic articles published, 170 pieces have been collected by three searching systems such as SCI, EI, ISTP. The Journal of Zhejiang Forestry University has been selected into the elite group of journals in Zhejiang Province with its influence factor exceeding 1.0. On top of all above, a series of research results have raked in tremendous economic and social effect after being put into practice.

ZFU recruits students from 24 provinces, municipality and autonomous region. At present, ZFU has 18,000 full-time students. ZFU makes persistent and unswerving efforts to produce well- informed, highly-capable, well-cultivated and innovation-minded practical students. Graduates of ZFU are well received for their diligence, devotion and capability. The first employment rate of undergraduate students is always more than 90% and in the forefront of Zhejiang universities. In 2008, Education Ministry formally evaluated ZFU as outstanding in term of teaching.

ZFU promotes international exchange and co-operation and has built up collaborative and academic relationships with 30 universities and academic institutes in more than 10 countries and regions such as USA and Canada. ZFU has built up sound ties with West Sydney University (Australia) and Alberta University (Canada) in joint education programs. Now 43 Foreign experts together with 50 foreign language teachers are teaching and researching in ZFU on a long term basis.

At present, ZFU is fully implementing the thought of running the university according to"One Promotion, Two Reinforcements"put forward by the First Party Conference with a view to built ecological university by launching"Six Projects".

English language teaching and international economics and business administration.

Chinese language and culture

mandarin, shadow-boxing, Chinese calligraphy and ink-painting, culture tour

international economics and finance, international trade, tourism, English language

Architecture

ZFU, located in Lin’an city (west of the popular tourist destination Hangzhou) has Yijin and East Lake campuses covering nearly 167 hectares with nearly 600,000 square meters of building space.

Lin'an City, the southern tip of the Yangtze River Delta is a green pearl, is located in the northwest of Zhejiang Province, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, east, south Fuyang, Tonglu and Chun'an west county in Anhui Province, Ningguo and Jixi, north Anji . 100 kilometers away from the east-west, 50 kilometers wide north-south, the land area of 3126.8 square kilometers, jurisdiction over 26 townships (towns) streets, the city population of 510,300 located in the Kam-town people's government. An east-west city of domain up to 100 kilometers, the Center City District, the eastern biased. High-southeast of the north-west of its low terrain, the difference of wealth. Shiquan the western and eastern, a difference of 1770 meters above sea level, northwest, south-west of the mountains an average elevation of more than 1000 meters, while the eastern part of town east of Kam-50 meters above sea level most of the valley plain below. South Mountain is surrounded by the north-west, east, was U-shaped openings. Is in the subtropical monsoon climate zone, warm and humid with four distinct seasons with spring rain, summer heat, autumn, dry and cold winter climate characteristics, the annual rainfall was 1628.6 millimeters, the annual mean temperature 16.4 ° C, the number of hours of sunshine throughout the year 1847.3 hours, 76.5 percent forest cover.