South China Agricultural University (SCAU) is located in Guangzhou City, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao. Covering the area of more than 550 hectares, the beautiful and peaceful campus is an ideal place for education and scientific research.

SCAU’s history can be traced back to 1909. Over nearly a hundred years, SCAU has grown into a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive university with agriculture, engineering, liberal arts, basic sciences, economics, management, law, education, history and philosophy. It is now adopting a multi-level and multi-approach schooling system and intends to develop into an advanced multi-disciplinary agricultural institute with distinctive tropical and subtropical features. The university takes agricultural sciences as its priority and life sciences as its highlight. At SCAU, undergraduate and graduate programs are developing concurrently, with teaching and research as the two central tasks.

SCAU has more than twenty colleges. At present there are more than 2,500 faculty and staff at SCAU, including 202 full professors and 459 associate professors. Among the faculty members, there is one academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, one specially invited professor and one chair professor for the "Changjiang Scholar Award Program", three candidates for the national "Outstanding Youth Foundation".

SCAU has three national key disciplines, five key disciplines of the Ministry of Agriculture and also nine provincial key disciplines of Guangdong. There are three key ministerial laboratories, three provincial key laboratories of Guangdong，four test centers and one key teaching laboratory of Guangdong at SCAU. 8 post-doctoral research stations have been established

Benefited from geological location, SCAU has been actively building international academic exchanges and co-operations with other academic organizations in the world. It has established inter-institutional ties with twenty-three universities from thirteen countries in Europe, America, Asia and Oceania. There are more and more academic exchanges between SCAU and universities in HongKong and Macao. In promoting the international multi-agricultural technological exchanges, the UNDP, FAO and WFC have attached great importance to the university and established the Regional Sericulture Training Center for Asia and Pacific and China International Center for Agricultural Training in SCAU. Up to now, the university has trained around 1000 overseas students and numerous research and government officials from over 50 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, America, and Oceania. Every year numbers of foreign scholars come here to make academic exchanges and to give lectures. In addition, our university has been sending groups of teachers and researchers to 22 countries for short-term training, education and cooperative research.