In January 2024, the construction of Tashkent Campus NWAFU was incorporated into the outcomes of the President of Uzbekistan’s state visit to China. Since then, Northwest A&F University has seized the momentum, fully integrating internal and external resources and systematically drawing on the mature experience of peer institutions in operating overseas campuses, thus propelling the development of the campus into a stage of rapid progress.
To support the construction of the campus, the Tashkent Chinese Language Education Center—jointly established by Northwest A&F University and Tashkent State Agrarian University—was officially inaugurated and began operations. In July 2024, China’s Minister of Education Huai Jinpeng, Uzbekistan’s Minister of Agriculture Resources Ibrokhim Yulchiyevich Abdurakhmonov, and the presidents of both universities jointly unveiled the campus. In September, the first cohort of students was enrolled, and the enrollment scale has since been gradually and orderly expanded. In April 2025, the Standing Committee of the University Party Committee reviewed and approved the Notice on Matters Related to the Institutions and Staffing of Tashkent Campus NWAFU, gradually establishing a comprehensive teaching quality assurance mechanism. In addition, the two universities continued to refine the top-level design and signed inter-university agreements for five majors: Agricultural Management, Agronomy and Seed Industry (Agriculture), Resources Use and Plant Protection, Agronomy and Seed Industry (Horticulture), and Animal Husbandry. By pooling outstanding faculty resources from both within and beyond the universities, the two sides aim to develop a flagship program for cultivating high-level agricultural talents for China and Uzbekistan. The universities also launched training programs in modern agricultural science and technology for arid regions in China and Uzbekistan, covering frontier areas such as dryland agricultural techniques and fruit tree cultivation.