Comrade Sun Haiqing, deputy director of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Agriculture, wrote the "Four Words and Eight Characters" school motto for the college: farming, cultivating morality, ideals, and pioneering.
A hundred years later, after many hardships and ups and downs, the descendants of the "Yunnan Sericulture School" and two provincial and ministerial key technical secondary schools: "Yunnan Agricultural School" and "Yunnan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary School" passed through Yunnan. The Provincial People's Government approved the merger to establish a higher vocational college: "Yunnan Agricultural Vocational and Technical College". Comrade Sun Haiqing, deputy director of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Agriculture, wrote a four-word school motto for the college: farming, cultivating morality, ideals, and pioneering.