Hebei Medical University

Hebei Medical University is a key leading university in Hebei Province. Originally named Beiyang Medical School, it was founded in Tianjin in 1894 by Li Hongzhang, Governor-General of Zhili and Beiyang Minister, as modern China’s first government-run institution for Western medicine. After the 1911 Revolution, the Republic of China’s Ministry of Education issued Order No. 16 in October 1912. Under that order, Beiyang Medical School was renamed Zhili Public Medical College in 1913 and began admitting undergraduate students. It moved to Baoding in 1915. Following the full-scale outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression on July 7, 1937, it was forced to close. It reopened and resumed admissions in January 1946, was renamed Hebei Medical College in April 1949, and moved from Baoding to Shijiazhuang in 1958. In 1995, Hebei Medical College, Hebei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Shijiazhuang Medical College merged to form Hebei Medical University. In 2013, Hebei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine resumed independent status. In 2016, the Ministry of Education, National Health and Family Planning Commission and Hebei Provincial People’s Government formally signed an agreement to jointly support the university. During the 13th Five-Year Plan, it set the goal of becoming a distinctive, high-level medical university.

Upholding its fine ethos of “Respect for Virtue, Dedication, Rigor and Innovation,” it has developed over 120 years, particularly during more than thirty years of reform and opening-up, into a comprehensive medical university integrating teaching, research and clinical care. In 2005, it adopted the motto “Illuminating Virtue and Broad Learning, Upright Conduct and Flexible Wisdom.” In 2015, it established the philosophy “Students at the Center, Teachers First.” It currently has two campuses, five hospitals, 14 secondary-level schools and 18 undergraduate programs, including 4 nationally distinctive and 4 provincially distinctive programs. It has 11807 full-time students.

It has 4 postdoctoral research stations in Basic Medicine, Clinical Medicine, Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, and Biology; 37 disciplines authorized to award doctoral degrees; and 52 authorized to award master’s degrees, forming a complete medical education system spanning bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees and postdoctoral research.

Across the university system, it has more than 15000 faculty and staff, including 1005 professional and technical staff with full senior titles, 1537 with associate senior titles, 117 doctoral supervisors and 1414 master’s supervisors. Its knowledgeable and nationally and internationally renowned experts and professors include 3 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 National Outstanding Professional and Technical Talent, 1 distinguished teacher under the national Ten Thousand Talents Plan, 8 National Outstanding or Model Teachers, 1 Young Thousand Talents Program recipient, 4 national Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talent Project recipients, 2 Yanzhao Scholars, 4 Hebei high-end talents, 11 provincially distinguished university teachers, 126 experts receiving special State Council allowances, 65 provincially administered outstanding experts, and 118 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions.

It has 5 directly affiliated hospitals: 4 comprehensive Grade III Class A hospitals and 1 Grade III specialist hospital, with 9139 authorized beds. It also has 5 non-directly affiliated hospitals, 5 teaching hospitals and 28 internship bases.

It is a center not only for medical education and care in Hebei but also for medical research. It has 1 national key discipline in Basic Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, 1 key discipline under cultivation in Forensic Medicine, 1 National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine key discipline in Basic Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, 16 national key clinical specialties, 1 discipline supported by Hebei’s national key discipline cultivation project, 4 Hebei strong and distinctive disciplines, 12 provincial key disciplines, 2 key laboratories jointly supported by provincial authorities and the Ministry of Education, 3 provincial collaborative innovation centers, 1 new-style provincial think tank, 1 provincial philosophy and social sciences research base, 2 Provincial Department of Education key research bases in the humanities and social sciences, 20 provincial key laboratories, research offices and engineering centers, and 6 provincial research institutes. It also edits and publishes 8 national and provincial academic journals.

In recent years, it has continually strengthened international exchange and cooperation and become an important window for Hebei’s external cultural and academic exchange. It has close partnerships with 27 medical institutions and research organizations in 12 countries, including Japan, South Korea, the United States, Belgium and France. It has appointed over one hundred foreign experts to honorary positions and has 446 enrolled international students. Upholding the university’s role in serving local development, it actively provides intellectual support to local governments and enterprises and has signed 43 cooperation agreements with enterprises and public institutions covering talent training, research, production services and related areas.