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The China Agricultural
University (CAU) is a leading agricultural
education and research institution in China. It is a merger of the former
Beijing Agricultural University (BAU) and Beijing Agricultural Engineering
university (BAEU) in 1995. The history of the University traces back to 1905
as the College of Agriculture in the Capital University (the present Peking
University), the oldest university in China. The University is under the
jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education P.R.C. The University boasts 6
academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 5 academicians of the
Chinese Academy of Engineering Sciences, 235 professors, and 488 associate
professors. The number of students has kept rising over the past years.
Currently, 1,400 graduate |
students and 11,000
undergraduate students are enrolled in 19 colleges in the
University. The University Library is one of the most
important libraries for agricultural sciences in China. With its new
building completed in 1990, the Library is a proud of the University for its
modern and reader-oriented design and the rich collection of agricultural
literature. The Library has a total floor area of 12,955 square meters with
a holding capacity of 2.5 million volumes. The current collection is about
1.4 million volumes including 3,500 periodicals. The National Foreign
Textbook Center for Agriculture is affiliated to the Library.
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