In January 2017, Henan Agricultural University and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT, Texcoco, Mexico) signed a long-term collaborative agreement to expand on the knowledge and capacities of each institution by setting up shared research programs.

[6] Scientists from CIMMYT and the university agreed to collaborate and publish in a new state-of-the-art research center, benefiting the world of agricultural research as well as the smallholder farmer in wheat and maize growing regions around the world.

The CIMMYT collaboration will focus on scientist training and research as well as technological innovation in the plant sciences.

To enable the foreign students to better adapt to university life, they can start special courses before the fall.

International Education College of Henan Agricultural University established a Chinese training program in 2004.