Being one of the oldest schools at the university, the School of Resources & Environment enjoys a history of over 50 years and has achieved great success in teaching, research and discipline construction. The school has, up to now, formed a multi-level program system including undergraduate, master and doctorate programs, and has made great contributions to the construction and development of forestry science, environmental science and relevant disciplines and specialties of the country.

The school has a good administrative organization. Set under it are the 1 key laboratory under the State Forestry Bureau (Breeding and Cultivation Laboratory), 1 nationwide academic center of non-timber forests, 7 teaching and research sections, 10 institutes, and 1 experimental department. And the school sponsors the nationwide academic journal Non-timber Research.

The school has a strong 70-member staff force, of whom there are 25 professors, 28 associate professors, 12 PhDs and 30 master's degree holders. At present, it has 1 member of the Subject Appraisal Group of Degree Committee under the State Council, 10 PhD supervisors, and 6 directors of national first-rank institutes.

The discipline and specialty composition of the school is of very strong advantages and obvious characteristics. The school now offers 1 PhD program (Forest Cultivation), 5 master programs (Botany, Forest Management, Forest Protection, Forest Cultivation, and Environmental Science), and 4 undergraduate programs (Forestry, Environmental Science, Resources Environment, and Urban & Rural Planning Management and Gardening), of which Forestry is a provincial key program. In the past decades, the school has sent a great number of advanced specialized talents out of campus. According to the 2003 statistics, there are 960 students altogether, including undergraduates, MA students and PhD candidates.

The school has distinguished itself in the respect of scientific research. It has undertaken over 100 research projects at state, provincial, or ministry level, of which 85 have received scientific research achievement awards at state, provincial, or ministry level. 8 teachers in the school have been selected as provincial or ministerial Cross-Century Academic Pioneers, 4 are honored by the State Forestry Bureau as Young and Middle-Aged Experts with Outstanding Achievements, and 15 are recipients of special subsidies given by the State Council.

In recent years, the school actively conducts international academic exchanges and has established cooperation and exchange relations with universities in such countries as USA, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, etc, with visiting scholars mutually assigned and outstanding achievements realized in their cooperative research in many a field.