Nanjing Forestry University, located at the foot of the beautiful Zijin Mountain and beside the rippling Xuanwu Lake, is a provincial key university jointly built by the central and local governments. It was selected into the national "double first-class" construction university list in 2017. Formerly known as the Department of Forestry of Central University (founded in 1902) and the Department of Forestry of Jinling University (founded in 1910), Nanjing Forestry University, which was merged in 1952, was one of the only three forestry colleges in China at that time. In 1955, the Forestry Department of Huazhong Agricultural University (Wuhan University, Nanchang University and the Forestry Department of Hubei Agricultural University) was merged; In 1972, it was renamed as Nanjing Forestry Industry College; The name of Nanjing Forestry University was restored in 1983; It was renamed Nanjing Forestry University in 1985. As a multi-disciplinary university with the characteristics of forestry and the advantages of resources, ecology and environment disciplines, the university has adhered to the comprehensive implementation of the Party's education policy, put the improvement of teaching quality and moral education in the first place, closely focused on the fundamental task of cultivating socialist builders and successors, and constantly deepened the education and teaching reform in order to achieve the grand goal of "the Yellow River flowing blue water, bare land becoming green mountains", Inherited and carried forward the glorious tradition of hard work, and formed the school spirit of "unity, simplicity, diligence and progress" and the school motto of "honesty and majesty, trees and people". The graduates of the university are all over the country and are welcomed by employers.