By 2020, the total number of full-time teachers will reach more than 1,400, accounting for more than 60% of the total number of school staff.

By 2020, the proportion of full-time teachers with senior professional titles will be about 60%, of which the proportion of professors will be about 25%, and doctoral degree holders will reach more than 60%. More than 80% of teachers have completed postdoctoral research or other forms of off-campus learning experience in other universities. More than 30% of teachers have studied abroad or visited abroad for more than half a year.

By 2020, there will be more than five new outstanding talents at the national level, achieving a breakthrough in national “Ten Thousand Experts Program”, “Chang Jiang Scholars Program” professors, and national distinguished young scholars program. There will be more than 10 outstanding provincial talents, such as special professors of Hunan Province “One Hundred Experts Program” and professors of “Furong Scholars” Program, etc.

By 2020, with the aim of interdisciplinary fusion and cluster development of characteristic advantage disciplines, one or two new postdoctoral research stations will be added, 10 academic teams with core competitiveness will be formed. With careful planning, focusing on cultivation and upgrading of the team, four national academic teams and more than 10 provincial academic teams will be formed.

1 Implementing “Top Talents” Program

During the 13th Five-Year Plan, the “Top Talents” Program will be launched and implemented. Greater efforts should be made to cultivate talents with the potential to be academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Chinese Academy of Engineering, “Changjiang Scholars Program” professors, or national distinguished young scholars. Promoting the rapid growth of excellent talents, more well-known experts and scholars will be added in these fields of Crop Science, Horticulture, Plant Protection, Animal Husbandry, Biology, Ecology, and Agricultural Resources and Environment.

2 Implementing the “1515” Talents Training Plan

During the 13th Five-Year Plan, the “1515” talents training program will be furthered to train 5 to 10 first-class academic leaders, 30 to 50 academic leaders, 100 to 120 backbone academic talents, 2 to 3 discipline innovation clusters, and more than 30 stable and close innovation teams.

3 Implementing High-level Talents Introduction Plan

During the 13th Five-Year Plan, with the principle of “full-time talents introduction, supplemented by flexible introduction”, the university plans to introduce 1 to 2 national outstanding talents at the national level, including academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Chinese Academy of Engineering, national “One Thousand Experts Program”, “Ten Thousand Experts Program”, “Changjiang Scholars Program” professors and national distinguished young scholars, more than five outstanding talents at provincial and ministerial levels, including Hunan Province “One Hundred Experts Program” innovative talents, “Furong Scholars” Program and other outstanding talents.

4 Implementing Teams Construction Plan

Focusing on “building large platforms, organizing large teams, striving for large projects and creating great achievements”, teams will be constructed at different levels according to industry chains, discipline features and discipline direction. Taking the reform of the system and mechanism of the 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center as an opportunity, exploring the team construction based on PI model, choosing the team leader and expanding the authority of the team leaders, scientific team assessment mechanism and resource allocation mechanism both will be successfully formed. Making medium and long-term plan for team construction, providing long-term stable support to high-level academic teams, the university is going to actively guide the transformation of individual advantage into team advantage. Promoting the construction of teaching teams, scientific research teams and service teams, the construction of 20 to 30 teaching and research teams with greater influence in the country will be the major focus of the future plan.

5 Implementing the Promotion Plan of Young and Middle-aged Teachers’ Academic Literacy and Innovative Entrepreneurship Ability

A special fund is set up to support young or middle-aged teachers to go to high-level universities, scientific research institutes, large and medium-sized enterprises for further training or as visiting scholars, to teaching and research bases and laboratories for professional training. During the 13th Five-Year Plan, about 100 teachers are mainly subsidized to go to “985” universities or famous scientific research institutes for doctoral degree, post-doctoral research or visiting scholars in order to train a group of academic talents with international academic background or foreign research experience. During the 13th Five-Year Plan, about 60 teachers are to be selected to study abroad in well-known universities or scientific research institutes. More than 200 teachers are to be selected to conduct academic exchanges and cooperation abroad.