Shanghai Vocational College of Agriculture and Forestry (SHAFC) is the only higher vocational college in Shanghai which has distinct features in modern urban agriculture. The college has agronomy majors including agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and sideline fishery and etc. SHAFC is the construction unit of higher vocational colleges, the first batch of modern apprenticeship colleges and universities by the Ministry of Education, the civilized campus in Shanghai, the national greening model unit, and the national civilized unit.

In 2002, SHAFC was founded on the basis of Shanghai Agricultural School and its school history dates back to the year 1947. It has stuck to the publicity of the school culture “Devoting to the Agriculture all the Way” and has fostered a large number of management and technical qualified personnel in accordance with the school principle “Serving the agriculture with its own unique characteristics”. Presently, 70% of the management and technical talents in the agricultural industry in Shanghai are SHAFC graduates.

The college has three campuses: the main campus in Songjiang District, the Songjiang Wushu Training Base, and the Pudong Training Base, covering an area of 90.3 acres. The college now has eight departments, including the Department of Plant Science and Technology, the Department of Landscape Architecture Technology, the Department of Animal Science and Technology, the Department of Biomedicine and Health, the Department of Economics and Management, the Department of Smart Agricultural Engineering, the Department of Fundamentals and the School of Marxism. The college has set up 25 majors, four of which are first-class majors, namely horticultural technology, animal medicine, pharmaceutical biotechnology, and facility agriculture and equipment. It has also constructed three municipal first-class major groups, namely urban animal medicine, urban modern horticulture, and bio medicine and health. At present, the college has 19 high-quality courses at the municipal level and above, and 11 teaching teams (including teachers' teaching innovation teams) at the municipal level and above.

The college has successively been awarded as Shanghai Characteristic Higher Vocational College, Shanghai Safe and Civilized Campus, Shanghai Safe Demonstration Unit, Shanghai Water Conservation Demonstration (Benchmark) School, Shanghai Garden Unit, Shanghai Advanced Unit for Conscription Work, and Advanced Collective of the Three Supports and One Support Plan, etc. The training base of the SHAFC is the National Agricultural Internet of Things Demonstration Base and the National Youth Agricultural Science Demonstration Base. The base has got two vocational skills appraisal stations, namely the Agriculture-176 station of the Ministry of Agriculture and the 82 station of Shanghai.

(Updated to February 22, 2022)