Background:
● Northwest A&F University (NWAFU) is a key national comprehensive university under the administration of the Ministry of Education. Supported by the Ministry of Education's "Project 985" and "Project 211", it is one of the universities listed in the National "World-Class University and First-class Discipline" Project. NWAFU is located in Yangling, Shaanxi Province, the birthplace of Chinese agricultural civilization and today's National Agriculture High-tech Industrial Demonstration zone. Current Party Secretary is Li Xingwang, President Wu Pute.
● NWAFU has formed distinct features and advantages in crop genetics and breeding, disease and insect pest control, soil and water conservation and ecological restoration, efficient agricultural water use in arid areas, livestock and poultry breeding and healthy breeding, agricultural biotechnology and grape and wine research.
● Actively engaging in poverty alleviation, focusing on two main tasks of “industrial support for poverty alleviation" and "education advancement for poverty alleviation", NWAFU experimented with paired-up assistance poverty alleviation work mode "three groups and one team" (secretary groups, graduate student groups, expert groups, and outstanding talent pioneer service team), which has been selected by the Ministry of Education as one of the “ten typical projects of targeted poverty alleviation in directly affiliated universities". It has built the first batch of New Rural Development Research Institutes in China, established Rural Revitalization Strategy Research Institute, Shaanxi Rural Revitalization Industry Research Institute, and College of Farmers Education, providing important intellectual support for the agricultural and rural modernization in the new era.
