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Huazhong Agricultural University (HAU) has a long history over one hundred years. Its predecessor, Huazhong Agricultural College (HAC), termed Hubei Agricultural College in 1940, was derived from Hubei Farming School (HFS) established in 1898 by Mr. Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei-Hunan region. In 1952 when China 's high institutions were restructured HAC was founded, on the basis of merging Agricultural College of Wuhan University with Hubei Agricultural College , Agricultural College of Henan University, Agricultural College of Nanchang University, Agricultural College of Guangxi University, Agricultural College of Zhongshan University and some departments of Hunan Agricultural College . HAC had its name changed to HAU in 1985.

The National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement was built on combining the strength in genetics and breeding of major crops with the recent developement of molecular biology in plants in Huazhong Agricultural University. The set up of this laboratory was officially completed in 1994 by the State Planning Commission with cofunding by the Ministry of Agriculture.

 Heilongjiang University is an institution of higher learning with a glorioustradition. Its predecessor was the Russian Brigade of the Third Branch School of Chinese People’s Anti-Japanese Military and Political College, founded in Yan’an in 1941. It experienced changes in name several times: Russian School of Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee, Yan’an Foreign Languages School, etc. In 1946, the school moved to Harbin, where it became The Foreign Language School Affiliated to the Headquarters of the Northeast China Democratic Amalgamated Army,and later renamed Harbin Foreign Language Special School, Harbin Foreign Language College. In 1956, Harbin Foreign Language Technical College, directly affiliated to the Ministry of Higher Learning, was founded, based on which Heilongjiang University came into being in 1958. It was extended, and developed from a single-subject school of foreign language into a comprehensive university. The Beet Research Institute of the Chinese Agricultural Academy of Science. annexed by Heilongjiang University in August, 25, 2003, has not only expanded the university’s educational resources , but greatly increased it’s research strength, substantially broaden the space of the branches of learning and undertaking. It stands out as a notable landmark in the process of our university.

Wuhan University is a key university directly under the administration of the Education Ministry of the People's Republic of China. It is located in Hubei Province's capital Wuhan known as "The thoroughfare leading to nine provinces". The university has rolling physical features with the scenic Luojia Hill in it and the beautiful East Lake by its side, seeming in picturesque disorder. Its campus is wooded and green, and has fragrant flowers everywhere all the year round, the buildings are in special architectural styles, magnificent and mansion-looking. For the above reasons, Wuhan University is widely known as one of the most beautiful universities in the world.

The university dates back to Ziqiang Institute, which was founded in 1893 by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty after his memorial to the throne was approved by the Qing Government. Later, it changed its name several times before it was named National Wuhan University in July 1928. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Wuhan University moved to Leshan, Sichuan Province and returned to Luojia Hill after the victory of the war. By the end of 1946, the university had six colleges, i.e., the colleges of liberal arts, law, sciences, engineering, agriculture and medicine. Wuhan University had a glorious revolutionary tradition and enjoyed a very high academic status, with Wang Shijie, Wang Xinggong and Zhou Gengsheng as its successive presidents. Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu, Chen Tanqiu, Deng Yingchao and Luo Ronghuan, et al. were once engaged one after another in revolutionary activities here, while a great number of well-known scholars like Gu Hongming, Zhu Kezhen, Wu Baoliang, Zha Qian, Gui Zhiting, Ye Yage, Li Siguang, Wen Yiduo, Huang Kan, Yu Dafu, Shen Congwen, Zhu Guangqian, Liu Ze, Liu Yongji, Ye Shengtao, Yang Duanliu and Li Jiannong taught here successively. In 1948, Oxford University of Britain wrote an official letter to the Ministry of Education of the Chinese National Government, confirming that bachelors of liberal arts and sciences graduated from Wuhan University and with average grades above 80 could enjoy "the senior status of Oxford".

In 1992, NCGR was established jointly by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the Shanghai local government to provide a major focus in China for mapping and sequencing the rice genome, and genomes of other organisms.
    Since 1998 NCGR has been a member of the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project (IRGSP) to completely sequence the entire rice japonica genome. NCGR has been fully working on the chromosome 4 sequencing in close collaboration with the IRGSP members, the Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, and Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of CAS.

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