Beijing University of Chinese Medicine

Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (BUCM, Chinese: 北京中医药大学) is a public medical university in Beijing specialising in traditional Chinese medicine, founded in 1956 as the Beijing College of Chinese Medicine and directly administered by the Ministry of Education.北京中医药大学（Beijing University of Chinese Medicine，简称 BUCM）是北京一所以中医药为特色的公立医科大学，1956 年以北京中医学院之名创办，直属教育部管理。

It was among the first higher-education institutions for Chinese medicine approved by the State Council, joined Project 211 in 1996 and the Double First-Class scheme in 2017, and is co-built by the Ministry of Education, the National Health Commission, the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Beijing municipal government.该校是国务院批准最早创办的高等中医药院校之一，1996 年进入「211 工程」，2017 年入选「双一流」建设高校，并由教育部、国家卫生健康委员会、国家中医药管理局与北京市共建。

BUCM teaches about 15,500 full-time students on three campuses, runs four directly affiliated hospitals in Beijing, and is placed in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, 1,298th in the U.S. News ranking for 2026-27 and the 901-1000 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities.该校在三个校区培养约 15500 名全日制学生，在北京拥有四所直属附属医院，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中处于 1401+ 并列区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中位列第 1298 位，在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于 901 至 1000 区间。

History

• The Beijing College of Chinese Medicine was founded in 1956 at Haiyuncang in the old city, one of the four traditional medicine colleges created that year under the State Council's plan to give Chinese medicine a university-level curriculum, alongside sister colleges that became the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine and the Chengdu University of Chinese Medicine.北京中医学院 1956 年在旧城海运仓创办，是当年国务院为把中医药纳入高等教育体系而批准设立的四所中医学院之一，同年创办的另外三所学院后来发展为上海中医药大学、广州中医药大学与成都中医药大学。
• Its first cohort studied a curriculum that combined classical texts such as the Inner Canon with modern anatomy and pharmacology, a synthesis that became the template for TCM degrees across China.首届学生学习的课程把《内经》等经典与近代解剖学、药理学并列，这一综合方案此后成为全国中医学位教育的模板。
• In 1960 the college was designated a national key university by the central government, only four years after its founding and before most of its present buildings existed.1960 年，学院被中央确定为全国重点高校，此时距建校仅四年，今天的大部分校舍尚未建成。
• In 1971 the college was merged with the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the two institutions were separated again in 1977, restoring the college as an independent teaching body.1971 年学院与中国中医研究院合并，1977 年两院又分开，学院恢复为独立的教学机构。
• BUCM pioneered graduate education in Chinese medicine in 1978, when it enrolled the country's first TCM master's students, and in 1981 it became the first institution authorised to award TCM doctorates.该校 1978 年率先开展中医药研究生教育，招收全国首批中医硕士研究生；1981 年又成为全国首个获得中医博士学位授予权的单位。
• In 1993 the college was renamed Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, a change that recognised its shift from a single-discipline college to a multi-school university.1993 年，学院更名为北京中医药大学，这一变化标志着它从单一学科的学院转向多学院建制的大学。
• It entered Project 211 in 1996, the year that the Ministry of Education began concentrating resources on a hundred key universities.1996 年，学校进入「211 工程」，同年教育部开始把资源集中投向一百所重点大学。
• On 31 July 2000 the university merged with the Beijing College of Acupuncture, Orthopaedics and Traumatology, creating the present institution and placing it directly under the Ministry of Education.2000 年 7 月 31 日，学校与北京针灸骨伤学院合并，组成今天的北京中医药大学，并改由教育部直属管理。
• The merger brought acupuncture, moxibustion and orthopaedics into a university that had been built around the materia medica and internal medicine traditions, widening its clinical base.这次合并把针灸、推拿与骨伤学科带入这所以中药与内科传统见长的大学，拓宽了其临床基础。
• In 2011 the university joined the 985 Innovation Platform for advantageous disciplines, a scheme that funded research infrastructure rather than whole institutions.2011 年，学校入选「985 工程优势学科创新平台」，该计划资助的是科研平台而非整所高校。
• September 2015 brought the opening of the Liangxiang campus in the Fangshan university town, the university's first new campus in decades and now the base for first- and second-year undergraduates.2015 年 9 月，位于房山良乡大学城的良乡校区启用，这是学校数十年来第一个新校区，如今成为一二年级本科生的基地。
• In September 2017 the State Council's Double First-Class list included all three of the university's core disciplines: Chinese medicine, integrated Chinese and Western medicine, and Chinese materia medica.2017 年 9 月，国务院「双一流」建设学科名单同时列入该校三个核心学科：中医学、中西医结合与中药学。
• The university retained all three disciplines in the second Double First-Class round announced in 2022, making it the only TCM institution with that triple qualification.2022 年公布的第二轮「双一流」名单中，学校三个学科全部保留，成为唯一同时拥有这三项建设资格的中医药院校。
• In 2018 the Ministry of Education appointed BUCM to chair the national teaching steering committees for Chinese medicine and for integrated Chinese and Western medicine.2018 年，教育部确定该校为高等学校中医学类、中西医结合类专业教学指导委员会主任委员单位。
• Its first affiliated hospital, Dongzhimen Hospital, was founded in 1958 and became the university's first clinical medical college, teaching bedside medicine to every TCM cohort since.其第一所附属医院东直门医院建于 1958 年，后成为学校第一临床医学院，此后每一届中医学生都在此接受床边教学。
• In 1991 Dongzhimen Hospital opened a branch hospital in Kötzting, Bavaria, one of the earliest Chinese medicine hospitals established in Europe.1991 年，东直门医院在巴伐利亚州魁茨汀开设分院，是欧洲最早设立的中医医院之一。
• The Third Affiliated Hospital traces its buildings to the Metallurgical Hospital of 1964 and was transferred to the university in 2006, when it was converted into an integrated Chinese and Western medicine hospital.第三附属医院的前身是 1964 年建成的冶金医院，2006 年划归学校，并改建为中西医结合医院。
• A grammar and law department created in 2003 became the School of Humanities in 2007, part of a wider expansion of non-clinical teaching in medicine, law, English and management.2003 年设立的文法系于 2007 年改为人文学院，这是学校在医学之外扩展法学、英语与管理教学的一部分。
• In 2020 the university was named a National Civilised Campus, an honour awarded by the central authorities for campus culture and governance rather than for research output.2020 年，学校获评「全国文明校园」，这一称号由中央授予，评价的是校园文化与治理而非科研产出。
• By 2024 the three campuses covered 1,703 mu, and the university had grown from a single college of Chinese medicine into a system with 14 teaching units and four directly affiliated hospitals in Beijing.到 2024 年，三个校区合计占地 1703 亩，学校已从单一的中医学院发展为拥有 14 个教学单位和四所在京直属附属医院的体系。

Academics

• Fourteen teaching units make up the university: the schools of Chinese medicine, Chinese materia medica, life sciences, acupuncture-moxibustion and tuina, Qi-huang medicine, management, nursing, humanities, Marxism, Chinese studies and international education, plus the Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao TCM division, continuing education and physical education.学校由 14 个教学单位组成：中医学院、中药学院、生命科学学院、针灸推拿学院、岐黄学院、管理学院、护理学院、人文学院、马克思主义学院、国学院、国际学院、台港澳中医学部、继续教育学部与体育教学部。
• It offers 15 undergraduate majors, including Chinese medicine, Chinese materia medica, Chinese pharmacy, pharmaceutical science, acupuncture-moxibustion and tuina, rehabilitation therapy, nursing, health-service management, pharmaceutical administration, information management, medical English and health law.学校开设 15 个本科专业，包括中医学、中药学、中药制药、药学、针灸推拿学、康复治疗学、护理学、卫生事业管理、药事管理、信息管理与信息系统、医学英语与医药卫生法学。
• Three first-level disciplines, Chinese medicine, Chinese materia medica and integrated Chinese and Western medicine, award doctorates, and together they cover 42 secondary doctoral points and 45 master's points.中医学、中药学、中西医结合三个一级学科具有博士学位授予权，合计涵盖 42 个二级学科博士点与 45 个硕士点。
• The university runs three postdoctoral stations and five professional degree categories with 14 fields, including nine doctoral and fourteen master's authorisations.学校设有三个博士后科研流动站，以及五个专业学位类别、十四个领域，其中包含九个博士学位授权点与十四个硕士学位授权点。
• In the fourth round of the Ministry of Education's discipline evaluation, Chinese medicine and integrated Chinese and Western medicine were both graded A+, while Chinese materia medica received B+.在教育部第四轮学科评估中，中医学与中西医结合均获评 A+，中药学获评 B+。
• The 2025 ShanghaiRanking Best Chinese Disciplines placed Chinese medicine, integrated Chinese and Western medicine and Chinese materia medica all first in the country.2025 年软科中国最好学科排名中，中医学、中西医结合与中药学三个学科均位列全国第一。
• Two first-level national key disciplines cover 15 secondary key disciplines, and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine has designated 48 of its key disciplines at the university.学校拥有两个一级学科国家重点学科，涵盖 15 个二级国家重点学科；国家中医药管理局还在该校认定 48 个重点学科。
• Four fields, clinical medicine, pharmacology and toxicology, chemistry, and biology and biochemistry, are in the top 1 per cent of the ESI global citation rankings.临床医学、药理学与毒理学、化学、生物学与生物化学四个学科进入 ESI 全球引用排名前 1%。
• The teaching body numbers about 6,200 staff, of whom 1,727 are full-time teachers and 335 are doctoral supervisors, and it includes three academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and five national masters of Chinese medicine.学校教职工约 6200 人，其中专任教师 1727 人、博士生导师 335 人，并拥有中国工程院院士 3 人与国医大师 5 人。
• Research is organised through 48 provincial and ministerial bases, including three Ministry of Education key laboratories, two ministry engineering research centres and eleven key research rooms of the national TCM administration.科研依托 48 个省部级以上基地，包括 3 个教育部重点实验室、2 个教育部工程研究中心以及 11 个国家中医药管理局重点研究室。
• The university's Beijing Research Institute of Chinese Medicine and its national institutes for TCM constitution and preventive treatment, development strategy and higher education coordinate cross-school projects.学校的北京中医药研究院以及国家中医体质与治未病研究院、国家中医药发展与战略研究院、国家中医药高等教育研究院统筹跨学院研究项目。
• Clinical teaching runs through four directly affiliated hospitals in Beijing, Dongzhimen, Dongfang, the Third Affiliated and Fangshan, with 17 national clinical key specialties and 44 key specialties of the TCM administration.临床教学依托东直门医院、东方医院、第三附属医院与房山医院四所在京直属附属医院，拥有 17 个国家临床重点专科与 44 个国家中医药管理局重点专科。
• Dongzhimen Hospital, the first clinical medical college, was founded in 1958, has 862 beds and opened a branch in Germany in 1991, while Dongfang Hospital in Fangzhuang has 1,200 beds.第一临床医学院东直门医院建于 1958 年，设 862 张床位，并于 1991 年在德国开设分院；位于方庄的东方医院则设 1200 张床位。
• The Third Affiliated Hospital in Chaoyang has 520 beds and specialises in integrated Chinese and Western medicine, and a further group of clinical medical colleges operates in Zaozhuang, Shenzhen, Fangshan, Tongchuan and Xiamen.朝阳区的第三附属医院设 520 张床位，以中西医结合为特色；学校还在枣庄、深圳、房山、铜川与厦门设有临床医学院。
• The Qi-huang School runs an integrated bachelor-to-doctorate track in Chinese medicine, selecting students at entry for a programme that bypasses the usual separation between undergraduate and graduate stages.岐黄学院开设中医学一体化本博贯通培养项目，在入学时选拔学生，跳过本科与研究生阶段的常规分段。
• Five journals are published under the university's name, including the English-language Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences, produced with Elsevier.学校主办五本中医药期刊，其中包括与爱思唯尔合作出版、以英文发行的《中医科学杂志》。
• Admission runs through the national gaokao, and the Chinese medicine programmes require the highest scores, with the Qi-huang track and the clinical medicine speciality the most competitive, while international applicants enter through a separate application route.招生通过全国高考进行，中医学各专业录取分数最高，其中岐黄班与临床方向竞争最为激烈；国际学生则通过单独的申请渠道入学。

Campus

• The university operates three campuses: Hepingjie and Wangjing in Chaoyang District and Liangxiang in the Fangshan university town, spread over 1,703 mu, or about 108 hectares.学校设有三个校区：朝阳区的和平街校区与望京校区，以及房山良乡大学城的良乡校区，合计占地 1703 亩，约合 108 公顷。
• The Hepingjie campus at 11 North Third Ring Road East is the historic core, a compact site in the old city where the university began in 1956.位于北三环东路 11 号的和平街校区是历史核心，1956 年建校时即在此，是一处旧城内的紧凑校园。
• The Wangjing campus in the north-east of the city houses continuing education, international programmes and part of the clinical and research institutes.位于城市东北部的望京校区承担继续教育、国际项目以及部分临床与研究所的功能。
• The Liangxiang campus opened in September 2015 in the Fangshan university town and now accommodates first- and second-year undergraduates in a purpose-built modern setting.良乡校区 2015 年 9 月在房山大学城启用，如今以新建的现代化设施容纳一二年级本科生。
• The Museum of Chinese Medicine on the Hepingjie campus holds materia medica specimens, classical texts and medical instruments and is used for teaching as well as public exhibition.和平街校区的中医药博物馆收藏药材标本、古籍与医疗器具，既用于教学也对外开放展览。
• The Guoyitang clinic, attached to the university, has provided outpatient Chinese medicine consultations in the Hepingjie neighbourhood for four decades and serves as a training site for senior students.附属国医堂中医门诊部在和平街一带提供中医门诊已四十年，也是高年级学生的实训场所。
• The Hepingjie site sits on the North Third Ring Road next to Heping Xiqiao station on subway Line 5, which places it within twenty minutes of the city centre.和平街校区紧邻北三环东路与地铁 5 号线和平西桥站，距市中心约二十分钟车程。
• The Liangxiang campus in Fangshan is roughly 30 kilometres southwest of the old campus and is linked to the city by the Fangshan Line of the Beijing subway.房山良乡校区位于老校区西南约 30 公里处，经北京地铁房山线与城区相连。
• Each campus has its own library and dispensary, and the three together hold the university's collection of Chinese medical classics, modern journals and pharmaceutical reference works.各校区均设图书馆与药房，三处合起来构成学校的中医古籍、现代期刊与药学工具书收藏。
• The hospitals are distributed across the city rather than concentrated on campus, with Dongzhimen in Dongcheng, Dongfang in Fengtai and the Third Affiliated in Chaoyang.附属医院分散于全城而非集中于校园：东直门医院在东城，东方医院在丰台，第三附属医院在朝阳。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 BUCM appears in the 1401+ band, the open-ended final group of 102 institutions.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，北京中医药大学列入 1401+ 并列区间，这是 102 所高校共同处于的开放式末段。
• It is not included in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, so no THE band is recorded for that year.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，该年度没有对应的区间。
• U.S. News places it 1,298th in its 2026-27 Best Global Universities ranking, the highest of its four main-table results.U.S. News 在 2026 至 2027 年度全球最佳大学排名中将其列为第 1298 位，这是它在四大主榜中的最好成绩。
• The 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities places it in the 901-1000 band, the only one of the four global tables in which it is banded rather than ranked.2026 年软科世界大学学术排名将其列入 901 至 1000 区间，这是四大全球榜单中唯一以区间而非具体名次呈现的一项。
• Its two A+ grades in the fourth round of discipline evaluation, in Chinese medicine and in integrated Chinese and Western medicine, were the highest awarded in those fields nationwide.在第四轮学科评估中，其中医学与中西医结合两个 A+ 为全国该领域的最高等级。
• The 2025 ShanghaiRanking Best Chinese Disciplines ranked all three of its core disciplines first in China, a position no other TCM university matched.2025 年软科中国最好学科排名把其三个核心学科全部列为全国第一，没有其他中医药院校达到这一成绩。
• Four ESI top-1 per cent fields, led by clinical medicine and pharmacology and toxicology, give it the strongest citation profile among Chinese TCM universities.以临床医学、药理学与毒理学为首的四个 ESI 前 1% 学科，使其在中国中医药院校中拥有最强的引用表现。
• Its Double First-Class status, Project 211 membership and 985 Innovation Platform funding make it the most heavily designated TCM university in the country.其「双一流」身份、211 工程成员资格与 985 优势学科创新平台资助，使其成为全国获得政策支持最多的中医药大学。
• The university's reputation abroad rests on clinical training and the Kötzting branch of Dongzhimen Hospital, which has treated European patients since 1991.其海外声誉建立在临床培训与东直门医院魁茨汀分院之上，后者自 1991 年起为欧洲患者提供诊疗。

Student life

• The university motto is 勤求博采，厚德济生, taken from Zhang Zhongjing's preface to the Treatise on Cold Damage and from the Book of Changes, and it is translated as diligent inquiry and broad learning, great virtue and benefiting life.校训为「勤求博采，厚德济生」，语出张仲景《伤寒杂病论》序与《易经》，英文释义为勤勉求索、广博采撷、厚德载物、济世利生。
• The university emblem combines the snake and staff of medicine with willow branches whose curves form the letters B and U, and its red, green and blue colours stand for sunlight, life, and sea and sky.校徽把医学的蛇与手杖同杨柳枝结合，枝条曲线构成字母 B 与 U，红、绿、蓝三色分别象征阳光、生命以及海洋与天空。
• The Qi-huang School's long-track students begin clinical observation early and are paired with hospital mentors, a structure that gives them a longer clinical apprenticeship than ordinary undergraduates.岐黄学院长学制学生较早开始临床见习，并与医院导师结对，其临床学徒期长于普通本科生。
• About 500 students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and more than 500 international students study on campus, most of them in the international education and Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao divisions.校园内约有 500 名港澳台学生与 500 余名国际学生，多数就读于国际学院与台港澳中医学部。
• Student societies organise herb-identification walks, acupuncture workshops and the annual campus traditional medicine culture events that open the museums and clinics to the public.学生社团组织识药徒步、针灸工作坊以及年度校园中医药文化节，届时博物馆与门诊部向公众开放。
• The Guoyitang clinic and the university museum give students a public-facing apprenticeship, where they explain prescriptions and specimens to visitors from across Beijing.国医堂与校博物馆为学生提供面向公众的实践机会，他们向来自北京各处的访客讲解方剂与标本。
• Because the Hepingjie campus is small and central, student life spills into the Hepingli and Yonghegong neighbourhoods, while Liangxiang students live around a new campus in suburban Fangshan.和平街校区小而居中，学生生活延伸到和平里与雍和宫一带；良乡校区的学生则生活在房山郊区的新校园周围。
• The four affiliated hospitals function as teaching hospitals, so clinical-year students rotate through Dongzhimen, Dongfang, the Third Affiliated and Fangshan rather than staying on one site.四所附属医院同时承担教学医院职能，进入临床阶段的学生要依次在东直门、东方、第三附属与房山医院轮转，而非固定一处。

Notable people

• Yan Zhenghua (1920-2025), a lifetime professor and the founding figure of Chinese materia medica education in the People's Republic, was named one of the first national masters of Chinese medicine in 2009 and taught at the university for more than sixty years.颜正华（1920 至 2025）是终身教授、新中国中药学高等教育的奠基人，2009 年被评为首届国医大师，在该校任教六十余年。
• Wang Mianzhi (1923-2009), a lifetime professor of Chinese medicine formulae, was also named a national master of Chinese medicine in 2009 and led the national key discipline in formula science.王绵之（1923 至 2009）是中医方剂学终身教授，同样于 2009 年获国医大师称号，并担任方剂学国家重点学科带头人。
• Wang Yuchuan, a scholar of the Inner Canon, was among the first group of national masters of Chinese medicine named in 2009 and built the university's teaching of classical medical texts.王玉川是《内经》学者，2009 年首批国医大师之一，奠定了该校中医经典教学的基础。
• Lü Renhe, a specialist in diabetes and kidney disease at Dongzhimen Hospital, was named a national master of Chinese medicine for his clinical work on diabetic nephropathy.吕仁和是东直门医院糖尿病与肾病专家，因在糖尿病肾病方面的临床工作获国医大师称号。
• Wang Qi, a professor of Chinese medicine diagnostics, developed the nine-constitution theory of body types and was named a national master of Chinese medicine.王琦是中医诊断学教授，提出中医体质九分法，并获国医大师称号。
• Xiao Chengzong, a gynaecologist trained in the university's hospitals, was named a national master of Chinese medicine for her work on infertility and menstrual disorders.肖承悰是在该校附属医院成长起来的妇科专家，因在不孕与月经病方面的贡献获国医大师称号。
• Nie Huimin, a professor of the Treatise on Cold Damage, was named a national famous Chinese medicine practitioner and trained several generations of Shanghan specialists.聂惠民是《伤寒论》教授，获「全国名中医」称号，培养了几代伤寒学专门人才。
• Xu Anlong, a comparative immunologist, has served as university president since 2013 and has pushed the university's basic-science and international agendas.徐安龙是比较免疫学家，自 2013 年起担任校长，推动学校的基础科学与国际化议程。
• Wang Yaoqi, an economist and former president of the Central University of Finance and Economics, serves as the university's party secretary.王瑶琪是经济学家、曾任中央财经大学校长，现任该校党委书记。