The life science and the technical institute had been established in 2001.It has 6 faculty working offices (ecology faculty working office, biological technology faculty working office, biology faculty working office, bio-engineering faculty working office, forest heredity breeding faculty working office, food science and project faculty working office) and 5 research institutes (ecology research institute, insect resources research institute, wild animals and plants protection research institute, organic foods research institute, application biological technology research institute). Has 1 post-doctorate scientific research mobile to stand (biology), 2 doctors select (ecology, forest heredity breeding), 6 masters select (ecology, forest heredity and breeding, biochemistry and molecular biology, zoology, wild animals and plants protection and use, agricultural products processing and store project), 4 undergraduate courses specialized (biological technology, bio-engineering, ecology, food science and project). Institute existing full-time in school doctor, master graduate student and undergraduate student 1,000 people. Institute existing teaching and administrative staff 71 people, orthometric height 22 people, vice- high 28 people, intermediate 13 people, primary 8 people. In the hillock teacher 59 people, professor 18 people, associate professor 21 people, the lecturer 11 people, the teaching assistant 8 people, test the teacher 1 person. Obtains the doctorate to have 19 people, the master's degree 28 people, bachelor the degree 24 people. Below 35 years old young teacher 19 people, doctor 2 people, master 10 people, the graduate student proportion accounts for 66.7%, has formed a structure to be reasonable, the academic level high teachers troop. The institute has 1 national key open country to observe the test house (Hunan to handle jointly with pine planted forest ecosystem research localization to stand), 1 provincial level key laboratory (ecology), 1 provincial level specialized foundation demonstration laboratory (physiological biochemistry), 1 provincial level key discipline (ecology) and 6 specialized foundations and the professional course teaching laboratories and specimen laboratory. Had each kind of laboratory total area 4516m2, tests instrumentation equipment 1,866 (), equipment resultant 8.55 million Yuan, each kind of specialized books and reference materials nearly 10,000 volume. At present, the institute altogether undertakes the country, the province () the level scientific research topic 46 items, 22 technical achievements through the appraisal, 17 items attain the country, the provincial level prize. Institute existing postgraduate candidate teacher 18 people, master's degree student teacher 35 people, 1 wins the Chinese youth science and technology prize, 5 people enjoy the government special allowance, the multi- people hold the post of level of academic societies, the provincial level academic society directors. The institute strengthens the international cooperation and the exchange, already with country's the and so on US, Japan, Australia, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland university and the scientific research institution maintains the close academic exchange and the cooperation.