Recently, the Education Department of Heilongjiang Province announced the list of candidates for the 2017 “Longjiang Scholar Support Program”. Prof. Yu Haipeng from the College of Material Science and Engineering and Prof. Wang Wenjie from Key Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology were appointed as “Distinguished Professor of Longjiang Scholars”. Professor Li Wei was appointed as “Young Scholar of Longjiang Scholars”. The successful selection of the three professors made NEFU with the largest number of selected talents in the 2017 Longjiang Scholar Support Program. At present, NEFU has 11 Distinguished Professors of Longjiang Scholars, 3 Professors of Longjiang Scholars, and 1 Young Scholar of Longjiang Scholars.

In 2017, Heilongjiang province implemented a new “Longjiang Scholar Support Program”. The “Support Program” implements the strategy of “strengthening the province through science and technology” and “strengthening the universities with talents”. It aims to strengthen the construction of high-level talent team in colleges and universities in our province, select a group of academic leaders with leading domestic or international level, and promote the professional ability and academic research level of young talents, especially of the top talents. In this way, forces for higher-level national talent programs such as the "Yangtze River Scholars" can be reserved.

After a series of procedures such as school recommendation, communication review, conference defense, and public announcement of candidates, a total of 21 people were selected as 2017 Longjiang Scholars, including 11 distinguished professors and 10 young scholars.