The study of plant virology at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University dates back to the 1970s (1979), when the Institute (Office) of Plant Virology was established at Fujian Agriculture and
Forestry University. Under the leadership of academician Xie Lianhui, the head of the discipline, the Department of Plant Pathology has been passed down and developed for more than 40 years, and has
achieved two historic "three leaps" since the 1980s "(i) Fujian Province "211" Key Discipline (1996); Ministry of Agriculture Key Discipline (1999); National Key Discipline (2001); (ii) Master's
Degree in Phytophthology (1986), Doctoral Degree in Phytophthology (1990) and Postdoctoral Station (1994), and later ( (1998, 1999) upgraded to the first level of the doctoral program and
post-doctoral station in plant protection
Selected as a national key discipline and a teaching innovation team of the Ministry of Education (2009)
Successful declaration of the State Key Laboratory of Ecological Control of Pests in Fujian and Taiwan (2016)
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University and the University of California, Riverside jointly established the Center for Vector Virus Research in the context of the construction of "high-level
universities" and "double first-class" universities proposed by the State.