Qingdao Nongye University (QNU), formerly known as Laiyang Agricultural University, is a regular provincial higher education institute among the first universities conferring bachelor degrees under the authority of the State Council. QNU was established in 1951, and has developed herself into a distinctive and multi-disciplinary university of well-coordinated sciences, engineering, agriculture, economics, humanities, and management.

QNU is located in Qingdao, covering an area of 200 hectares. There are 1,119 professional teachers among whom 124 are professors, 261 associate professors, and 213 have doctor degrees, 592 have master degrees. She has 21 colleges, 51 undergraduate programs, and 31 post-graduate programs. There are 9 provincial key disciplines, key laboratories, and engineering technology centers. Owning a collection of 1588,000 volumes of books and a gross worth of 140 million yuan’s equipments, QNU has excellent conditions of research and library, and takes on a great number of research projects from the state or provincial government and enterprises.

QNU is constantly strengthening exchange and cooperation with foreign institutes, and has established relations of academic and personnel exchanges and cooperation with more than 40 higher education institutes in more than 20 countries like the USA, Italy, South Korea, Japan, the Netherlands and so on.