Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)

The new HUST, a combination of former HUST, Tongji Medical University, Wuhan Urban Construction Institute and Wuhan Science & Technology Vocational College on May 26^th 2000, is a key university directly under the leadership of the Ministry of Education. The administrative structure involves the integration of management from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Construction and Ministry of Science and Technology as well as management from the Hubei Provincial Government. The University ranks top of the Chinese leading universities in comprehensive strength. The new organization brings an extensive and more balanced structure of academic disciplines. Until August 2003, there were eleven faculties: philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, agriculture, science, engineering, medicine and management. The University offers a variety of programs, including 69 undergraduate programs, 200 Master’s programs, 139 doctoral programs and 17 post-doctoral research centers. It has 15 national key disciplines. A number of other leading research centers are located here; 4 National Engineering Research Centers, 3 National Leading Laboratories, 2 National Specialized Laboratories. The University has more than 10,000 faculty members, of whom over 4,000 are full-time teachers, 9 are full academicians and 5 are part-time academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences & the Chinese Academy of Engineering, over 900 are full professors. The resident students number over 60,000 of whom more than 10,000 are graduate students.

Rothamsted Research (RRes)

Rothamsted Research is a world leading research center with high quality scientific research relevant to plant-based agriculture with the objective of achieving improvements in rural and agricultural economies. It is one of eight institutes sponsored by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK and comprises two major sites which together form the largest land-based institute in the UK and the oldest in the world: Rothamsted (Patron: Her Majesty the Queen) and Broom's Barn. The institute has four experimental farms and a field station, the scientific programme of which is run jointly with ADAS. There are strong formal links with the Universities of Nottingham and Reading. Thus, many of the scientific staff nominally hold university posts and contribute to teaching programmes.