English Introduction
Suzhou Polytechnic Institute of Agriculture is a fulltime institution of higher education authorized by the Government of Jiangsu Province and registered with the Ministry of Education. It has been one hundred year since it was founded in 1907. Now, the institute covers an area of about 55 hectare. It has set up 13 teaching units: the Horticulture and Garden Department, the Agricultural Engineering Department, the Food Processing Department, the Department of Electronic Information Technology, the Economy and TradeDepartment, the Humanities Department , the Basic Course Department, the Teaching and Research Section of Ideological Education, the Teaching and Research Section of Physical Training, the Teaching and Research Section of Military Theory, the Experiment Center, the Horticulture Center and the Dongshan Pomiculture Research Center. The institute has over 6,300 students and more than 400teachers, nearly 72% of whom have the senior and intermediate academic titles. Recently, under the leadership of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Forestry and the Provincial Department of Education, with the support from all social circles, the institute carries out the higher vocational principles of teaching service, obtaining employment and ability oriented and 3-in-1 involving teaching,research and production.The institute follows out the strategy of famous institute, famous ma-jor, famous teaching staff and teaching-research-and-production integration. The institute insists on developing its quality and scientific research, strengthening its feature and governing itself according to law. In order to make the institute prosper, special attention is paid to 6 projects. As a result, a lots of talented persons are cultivated here, who serves for farmers, rural areas and agriculture. The institute is accessed a lot of honor titles, such as “The Ad-vanced Unit of the Nation，InvitingForeign Cultural and Educational Experts”“The Advanced Unit of Jiangsu Province on Vocational Education”“The Advanced Unit of Jiangsu Province ”“The Advanced School of Jiangsu Province”“The Advanced Collectivity of Jiangsu Province on the Employmentof Graduates”“The Advanced College of Jiangsu Province on Science and Technol-ogy”and other governmental titles.The institute is the vicedirector of the Teaching Instruct-ion Committee of National Agriculture Vocational Academy and theAgriculture Educational Speci-ality Council of the China Association of Agriculture. The institute is vice chairman of an executive council of the National Agricultural Vocational Education.