《Journal of South China Agricultural University》(《JSCAU》for short) is an academic journal sponsored by South China Agricultural University. 《JSCAU》was founded in May 1959, and was one of more than 70 natural science journals founded or re-established in the 1950s. 《JSCAU》 reaches the 60th anniversary of its start publication in 2019. In 60 years, 《JSCAU》 has been growing up with the development of South China Agricultural University, and become a core academic journal of comprehensive agricultural science with certain influence in China through the efforts of generations of committees and editors. By consulting all the journals since its first publication and the related archives and documents, the writer analyses its history, experience and achievement, and prospects the future development of this journal, which will build up confidence of promoting 《JSCAU》 to a new level in the new era and entering the similar top academic journals in China.