social sciences

Northeast Forestry University was established in 1952, based on the Forestry Department of Zhejiang University Agricultural College and the Forestry Department of Northeast Agricultural College. It is a key higher education institution directly under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China and a key construction school of the national "211 Project".

Ecological engineering Vocational and Technical College is a public full-time ordinary college approved by the People's Government of Hubei Province and filed by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. The college was founded in 1952 and is located in the important town of Wuhan, a "thoroughfare of nine provinces" in central China. It overlooks the vast Tangxun Lake to the north and is adjacent to the national key high-tech industrial park - Wuhan · China Optics Valley. The college covers an area of 405 acres and has a building area of 138000 square meters. The college adheres to the educational philosophy of "people-oriented, applying learning to society, and serving society", and practices the school motto of "cultivating nature with the heart, strengthening technology and cultivating morality". After nearly 60 years of construction and development, the college has formed a regular higher education institution with distinctive characteristics in forestry ecology, landscape architecture, environmental art, and ecotourism, combining science, engineering, and literature.

Southwest Forestry University began in the Forestry Department of Yunnan University in 1939, and has gone through Kunming Agricultural and Forestry University, Yunnan Forestry University, Yunnan Forestry University, and Southwest Forestry University. It was established independently in 1978 and was originally a directly affiliated institution of the Ministry of Forestry. In 2000, during the adjustment of the national higher education layout structure, it was adjusted from a university directly under the National Forestry Bureau to a higher education institution that is "jointly built by the province and managed by the province". With 70 years of educational experience and 30 years of independent education, it is currently the only independent higher forestry undergraduate institution in western China. The campus is located in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, and is known as the "Provincial Excellent Greening University", "National Advanced Greening Collective", and "National Greening Model Unit".

Changsha Environmental Protection Vocational and Technical College was founded in 1979, and its predecessor was Changsha Environmental Protection School of the State Environmental Protection Administration. The school was upgraded to a public full-time ordinary university in, and is now jointly built by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Hunan Provincial People's Government. It is currently the only vocational college in China that specializes in cultivating high-quality and skilled frontline environmental protection talents.

After 50 years of development, Central South University of Forestry and Technology has become a multi-disciplinary university that covers eight disciplines including science, engineering, agriculture, humanities, economics, law, management, and education. It has the right to grant postdoctoral research and doctoral degrees, and is rich in characteristics. It has trained more than 120000 talents of all levels and types for the country. The school is now divided into two campuses: Changsha and Zhuzhou.

Zhejiang Ocean University is located in the urban area of Zhoushan, the "Thousand Island City" on the coast of the East China Sea, adjacent to the international metropolis of Shanghai, the international port city of Ningbo, and the "Sea Sky Buddha Kingdom" of Putuo Mountain. The school was founded in 1958 and was approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council in 1982 to obtain the qualification of one of the first batch of national bachelor's degree authorized units. In 2005, it obtained the qualification of a master's degree authorized unit. It has now developed into a provincial-level university with ocean characteristics and interdisciplinary development such as science, agriculture, engineering, literature, management, economics, and education.

Zhejiang Forestry University was founded in 1958 and is a full-time undergraduate institution under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province. It is located in Lin'an, an excellent tourist city in the western suburbs of Hangzhou. After 50 years of construction and development, the school has now become a multidisciplinary university covering eight disciplines including science, engineering, humanities, management, agriculture, economics, law, and medicine. The campus covers an area of over 2500 acres, with a building area of nearly 600000 square meters, making it a "good place to read and learn". The development of the school in the past decade is known as a typical epitome of the leapfrog development of higher education in Zhejiang Province.