History
Located in the internationally well-known Zhong Guan Cun Hi-Tech Zone, Beijing Forestry University (BFU) was originally the forestry department of the Royal University (the predecessor of Peking University) of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911).
After the foundation of BFU, in 1952, a number of distinguished experts and professors from Peking University, Tsinghua University and Beijing Agriculture University were transferred to BFU, which has inherited their rigorous style and discipline in academic pursuits. Decades of effort has developed BFU into a comprehensive university characterized by forestry, environmental science and biology, with well-coordinated multi-disciplines of science, engineering, management, economics, law, liberal arts and agriculture.
After entering the "211 Project" in 1995, BFU reached the standard set by the municipal government for the beautification of campuses in 1996, and won the title of the "Campus as Beautiful as Gardens in Beijing" five years later. In 2000, it established its Graduate School, the only one among the forestry universities and colleges in China; and a stock company of science and technology.
As one of the key institutions of higher education in China, BFU is the cradle of professionals specialized in advanced technology of multi-disciplines including forestry, soil and water conservation, landscape architecture, biotechnology, construction of ecological environment and economic management.
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