China Medical University

China Medical University was founded in 1931 as the first medical institution established by the Communist Party of China. In Yan’an in 1940, it was formally renamed China Medical University at Mao Zedong’s proposal. In 1948 in Shenyang, it took over the former National Shenyang Medical College, whose predecessor was Manchuria Medical University, established in 1911 by Japan’s South Manchuria Railway Company. In 1949, it took over and merged with the former private Liaoning Medical College, whose predecessor was the Shengjing Medical School, established in 1883 by medical missionaries sent by the United Presbyterian Church of Britain. China Medical University is therefore also one of the earliest institutions in China to teach Western medicine. Since its founding, it has trained over 90000 high-level medical professionals. According to incomplete statistics, its alumni include over one hundred people who have held vice-ministerial or higher positions, 9 health ministers or deputy ministers, over 40 generals and 14 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or Chinese Academy of Engineering.

The university has 2 campuses, Shenbei and Heping, and 33 schools, departments and divisions. It is authorized to award degrees in 6 disciplinary categories: medicine, education, science, engineering, philosophy and management. It has first-level doctoral degree authorization in 6 disciplines: basic medicine, clinical medicine, biology, stomatology, public health and preventive medicine, and nursing. It has 53 disciplines or programs authorized to award doctoral degrees, 63 authorized to award master’s degrees and 21 undergraduate programs. It has 5 national key disciplines and 1 national key discipline under cultivation; 40 National Health and Family Planning Commission national key clinical specialty development projects; 6 Liaoning university first-class distinctive disciplines; 4 priority disciplines under Liaoning’s first-class discipline development initiative; and 7 postdoctoral research stations. It has three affiliated general hospitals and 1 specialist hospital, with 10785 available beds and 240 comprehensive dental treatment chairs.

The university has 9157 established faculty and staff positions. Professional and technical personnel of various kinds account for 78.82% of total staff across the university and its affiliated hospitals. It has 751 people at professor-equivalent rank, 1087 at associate-professor-equivalent rank and 1240 postgraduate supervisors, including 448 doctoral supervisors. It has 15548 full-time students, including 1182 doctoral students, 4281 master’s students including seven-year program students, 9081 regular undergraduates and 1153 international students.

The university covers 1.1105 million square meters, with 741300 square meters of buildings. Its library holds 1.254 million printed books and periodicals and 21 TB of electronic resources. Its Laboratory Animal Department hosts the Liaoning Laboratory Animal Quality Testing Center and the Liaoning Key Laboratory for Transgenic Animal Research. It publishes 15 academic journals.

The university established a Sino-British joint college with Queen’s University Belfast in the United Kingdom. It has good exchange relationships with 87 universities and research institutions in countries and regions including the United States, United Kingdom, France, Japan, Russia, South Korea, Canada, Australia, Italy, Denmark, Spain, North Korea, Finland, Macao and Taiwan. It has productive cooperation with institutions such as the World Bank Group (WBG), China Medical Board (CMB) in the United States and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). It has awarded honorary appointments to 408 internationally renowned experts and scholars and has carried out 73 major international cooperation projects and 37 CMB projects in recent years.