Xiashu Town is the only town along the Yangtze River in jurong city, Jiangsu Province, with a 3.5-kilometer-long deep-water coastline of the Yangtze River. The town is located at the foot of Baohua Mountain, a Buddhist holy place, with an area of 160 square kilometers and a population of 63,000. It has jurisdiction over three market towns, two communities and 10 administrative villages. There are Qiaotou Campus of Nanjing University of Finance and Economics and the practice base of Nanjing Forestry University in China.
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Nanjing Forestry University, referred to as "Lin Nan University", is located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. It is a multidisciplinary university with forestry characteristics and advantages in resources, ecology and environment. It is an agricultural and forestry college established by the State Forestry Administration and the People's Government of Jiangsu Province. The graduate school is one of the "featured key discipline projects" in 74 countries.
Nanjing Forestry University, formerly known as the Forestry Department of Nanjing University and the Forestry Department of Jinling University, merged with 1952 to form Nanjing Forestry College, which was one of the only three forestry colleges in China at that time. 1985 was renamed Nanjing Forestry University.