Northwest A & F University Xi'an Agricultural University, or Northwest Agricultural University for short, is located in Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China's agricultural science city. It is one of the national key universities directly under the Ministry of education of the people's Republic of China and 32 vice ministerial key universities directly under the central government. It is a world-class university, a key construction University of "985 Project" and "211 Project". It has been selected as one of the national "111 plan", "2011 plan" and outstanding agricultural and forestry talents It is one of the 40 national key universities under the Ministry of education's "aid Xinjiang discipline construction plan", which is composed of the Ministry of education, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of agriculture, the Ministry of water resources and the Ministry of education It is the birthplace of modern higher agricultural education in Northwest China. It is also the agricultural college with the most complete disciplines of agriculture, forestry and water in China. The major of wine ranks first in China.The predecessor of the school is the national northwest agriculture and forestry college founded in 1934 and the related scientific and educational units successively established in Yangling. In September 1999, with the approval of the State Council, the former Northwest Agricultural University, Northwest Forestry College, Institute of soil and water conservation of the Ministry of water resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, northwest water conservancy Research Institute of the Ministry of water resources, Shaanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shaanxi Academy of Forestry Sciences, Shaanxi Northwest Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences were merged to form Northwest A & F University.As of March 2020, the University covers an area of 5657 mu, with 26 secondary departments and 71 undergraduate majors; 14 postdoctoral mobile stations, 16 doctoral degree authorized first-class disciplines, 27 master's degree authorized first-class disciplines; 7 national key disciplines; 12 national characteristic specialties; more than 4300 faculty members and 4 full-time academicians; nearly 21000 full-time undergraduates and more than 9600 doctoral and postgraduate students People.