Guangxi Medical University

Guangxi Medical University (GXMU) is a provincial public medical university in Nanning, the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China, and one of the region's key provincial universities. Since 2020 it has been jointly built by the National Health Commission and the regional government.广西医科大学（Guangxi Medical University，简称 GXMU）是位于中国南部广西壮族自治区首府南宁的一所省属公办医科大学，也是广西重点建设的省属高校之一，2020 年起由国家卫生健康委员会与广西壮族自治区人民政府共建。

Founded on 21 November 1934 as the Guangxi Provincial Medical College, it is one of the 22 medical schools established earliest in China and one of the first 30 institutions authorised to offer English-medium clinical medicine programmes to international students.学校前身为 1934 年 11 月 21 日创建的广西省立医学院，是全国建校较早的 22 所医学院校之一，也是教育部批准的首批 30 所具有本科临床医学专业英语授课留学生招生资格的高校之一。

The university now operates four campuses covering about 3,300 mu, enrols 64,516 full-time students and employs 2,403 full-time teachers. Its five directly affiliated hospitals include the largest hospital in Guangxi.学校现有 4 个校区、占地约 3,300 亩，全日制在校学生 64,516 人，专任教师 2,403 人，5 所直属附属医院中包括广西规模最大的医院。

History

• In July 1934 the Guangxi provincial government began preparing a provincial medical college, appointing Ge Shaolong as president and Zhang Rong as acting president during the preparatory period. The appointments came four months before the college formally opened.1934 年 7 月，广西省政府筹备广西省立医学院，任命戈绍龙为院长，张镕为筹备期间代理院长，此时距学院正式成立还有四个月。
• The Guangxi Provincial Medical College was formally created on 21 November 1934 on the new site of the Guangxi Military Hospital in Lingtie Village, Nanning. It occupied the hospital's newly built premises at the time of its founding.1934 年 11 月 21 日，广西省立医学院在南宁凌铁村广西军医院新址内创建，建校时即借用该院新建的房舍办学。
• On 3 December 1934 the college moved to the former provincial government premises on Minquan Road in Nanning, less than two weeks after its founding.1934 年 12 月 3 日，学院迁至南宁市民权路省政府旧址，此时距建校尚不足两周。
• In August 1936 the college was transferred to Guangxi University and renamed the Medical College of Guangxi University, becoming the medical faculty of the provincial university.1936 年 8 月，医学院改隶广西大学，更名为广西大学医学院，成为这所省立大学的医学教学单位。
• In February 1937 it was renamed the Guangxi Military Medical School, a name that reflected its new military medical role.1937 年 2 月，学校更名为广西军医学校，新校名反映了其转向军事医学教育的办学定位。
• In November 1938, as the Battle of South Guangxi approached, the school moved to Napo and Tianzhou towns in Tianyang County, where teaching continued during the war years.1938 年 11 月，受桂南会战影响，学校迁至田阳县那坡镇及田州镇，并在抗战期间坚持教学。
• In April 1939 it became the Guangxi Provincial Medical Training School, a specialised institution for medical training.1939 年 4 月，学校更名为广西省立医药专科学校，办学层次调整为医药专科教育。
• In September 1939 the institution was restored as the Guangxi Provincial Medical College, with the provincial chairman Huang Xuchu serving concurrently as president.1939 年 9 月，学校恢复为广西省立医学院，广西省主席黄旭初兼任院长。
• In July 1940 the campus moved to the Qixia Temple at Seven Star Cave in Guilin, which served as the school's wartime campus.1940 年 7 月，校址迁至桂林七星岩栖霞寺，这座寺院成为学校的战时校园。
• During the Japanese invasion teachers and students were dispersed to nearby counties, and they returned to Guilin after the Japanese surrender in 1945.日军入侵期间，师生疏散至周边市县，1945 年日本投降后返回桂林。
• In May 1946 the school moved into the former Guilin office building of the Military Commission of the National Government, which provided a permanent base after the wartime moves.1946 年 5 月，学校迁入国民政府军事委员会桂林办公厅旧址，在战时的多次迁移之后终于获得稳定的办学场所。
• On 22 November 1949, as the People's Liberation Army entered Guilin, the school was renamed the Guangxi Provincial Medical College, marking the start of its post-1949 history.1949 年 11 月 22 日，解放军进入桂林，学校改名为广西省医学院，由此进入新中国成立后的办学历程。
• It was renamed Guangxi Medical College in April 1953, a name it kept for the next four decades.1953 年 4 月，学校改称广西医学院，这一校名沿用了近四十年。
• In July 1954 the college moved from Guilin to the former site of Guangxi People's Revolutionary University in Jintou Village, Nanning, which had become the regional capital in 1950. Its main campus remains there today.1954 年 7 月，学院从桂林迁至南宁津头村的广西人民革命大学旧址，南宁自 1950 年起成为广西省会，校本部至今仍设于此。
• In October 1992 the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region government authorised the college to use the name Guangxi Medical University ahead of formal approval.1992 年 10 月，广西壮族自治区人民政府批复，同意广西医学院提前使用“广西医科大学”校名。
• The State Education Commission formally approved the change of name in May 1996, completing the institution's transition from college to university status.1996 年 5 月，国家教育委员会批准学校更名为广西医科大学，学校由此完成从学院到大学的建制升格。
• In September 2008 the university converted its English-medium clinical medicine programme into a six-year course, extending it beyond the usual five-year MBBS format.2008 年 9 月，学校将英语授课临床医学本科项目调整为六年制，学制长于通常的五年制 MBBS 项目。
• It was selected in 2012 for the Ministry of Education's Excellence in Medical Education programme, which supports reform of clinical training.2012 年，学校入选教育部“卓越医生教育培养计划”，该计划旨在推动临床医学人才培养模式改革。
• In 2013 it joined the national project to strengthen the basic capacity of universities in central and western China, which funded teaching and laboratory facilities.2013 年，学校入选国家“中西部高校基础能力建设工程”，该工程重点支持教学与实验设施建设。
• In 2017 the university entered the national 111 Plan for disciplinary innovation and talent introduction, and clinical medicine became a Guangxi first-class discipline.2017 年，学校入选国家“111 计划”，临床医学成为广西一流学科建设学科。
• In 2020 Guangxi Medical University became a university jointly built by the National Health Commission and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region People's Government, giving both bodies a formal role in its development.2020 年，广西医科大学成为国家卫生健康委员会与广西壮族自治区人民政府共建高校，双方在学校发展中承担正式职责。
• In 2025 the university was named a National Civilised Campus, an award recognising institutional performance in campus culture and student development.2025 年，学校获评全国文明校园，这一称号表彰学校在校园文化与育人工作方面的整体表现。

Academics

• The university offers 31 undergraduate programmes across medicine, science, engineering, management and law, with clinical medicine as its flagship field. Its majors include clinical medicine, preventive medicine, stomatology, pharmacy and nursing.学校设有 31 个本科专业，覆盖医学、理学、工学、管理学与法学等门类，临床医学是其优势特色领域，专业设置包括临床医学、预防医学、口腔医学、药学与护理学。
• It holds doctoral authority in six first-level disciplines: clinical medicine, basic medicine, public health and preventive medicine, stomatology, pharmacy and biomedical engineering.学校拥有临床医学、基础医学、公共卫生与预防医学、口腔医学、药学、生物医学工程 6 个一级学科博士学位授权点。
• Professional doctoral degrees are awarded in clinical medicine and stomatology, the two clinical fields that anchor its hospital-based training.学校拥有临床医学、口腔医学 2 个博士专业学位授权点，这两个临床领域构成其医院教学的核心。
• Master's degrees are offered in eleven first-level disciplines and nine professional categories, supporting both research and clinical specialisation.学校拥有一级学科硕士学位授权点 11 个、硕士专业学位授权点 9 个，兼顾学术研究与临床专科培养。
• Five postdoctoral research stations and one Guangxi academician workstation support postdoctoral research.学校设有 5 个博士后科研流动站和 1 个广西院士工作站。
• The university holds one national key discipline under cultivation, 21 national clinical key specialties and two key specialties of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.学校有 1 个国家重点（培育）学科、21 个国家临床重点专科和 2 个国家中医药管理局重点专科。
• Six disciplines are designated Guangxi first-class disciplines, alongside six advantage and characteristic key disciplines and nine regional key disciplines.学校有 6 个广西一流学科、6 个广西优势特色重点学科和 9 个广西重点学科。
• Clinical medicine ranks 893rd worldwide in the ESI database, placing it in the top 1.33 per mille of its field.临床医学在 ESI 学科排名中位居全球第 893 位，处于该学科全球前 1.33‰。
• Five further fields enter the ESI global top 1 percent: pharmacology and toxicology, biology and biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics, immunology, and general social sciences. The six fields are measured over a ten-year citation window.药理学与毒理学、生物学与生物化学、分子生物学与遗传学、免疫学、一般社会科学 5 个学科进入 ESI 全球前 1%，这 6 个学科按十年引文窗口统计。
• The university employs 2,403 full-time teachers, of whom 1,283 hold doctorates, or 53.39 percent of the total. Total staff, including clinical and support personnel, number 3,671.学校有专任教师 2,403 人，其中具有博士学位者 1,283 人，占 53.39%，含临床与教辅人员在内的教职工总数为 3,671 人。
• It counts 775 full professors and 971 associate professors, and supervises 1,713 master's students, 402 doctoral students and 268 postdoctoral fellows.学校有正高职称 775 人、副高职称 971 人，硕士生导师 1,713 人、博士生导师 402 人、博士后合作导师 268 人。
• Its staff includes one academician of the Eurasian Academy of Sciences, ten national talent programme selectees and 56 recipients of special government allowances from the State Council. Four are national Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents, eight are national young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions, and six entered the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents programme.学校有国际欧亚科学院院士 1 名、国家人才计划入选者 10 名、享受国务院政府特殊津贴专家 56 名，另有“新世纪百千万人才工程”国家级人选 4 名、国家有突出贡献中青年专家 8 名、教育部新世纪优秀人才支持计划入选者 6 名。
• Two faculty members are Guangxi academician candidates, and the university has 15 Bagui Scholars, three Bagui Young Top Talents and one Guangxi Outstanding Talent.学校有广西院士后备人选 2 名、广西八桂学者 15 名、八桂青年拔尖人才 3 名、广西杰出人才 1 名。
• Its three-plus-three-plus-five strategy concentrates research on thalassemia, liver cancer and nasopharyngeal carcinoma while developing five directly affiliated general hospitals. It also targets campus expansion, teaching quality and distinctive discipline building.学校实施“3+3+5”发展战略，重点打造地中海贫血、肝癌、鼻咽癌三大防治研究中心，并重点建设 5 所直属附属综合医院或院区，同时推进拓展办学空间、提升培养质量与凝练办学特色三项工作。
• The National International Joint Centre for Biotargeted Diagnosis and Treatment coordinates much of its translational cancer research.国家生物靶向诊治国际联合中心统筹学校相当一部分肿瘤转化医学研究。
• A Guangxi biomedical collaborative innovation centre links the university with regional industry and hospitals.广西生物医药协同创新中心将学校与本区域产业及医院联结起来。
• Clinical research by its first or corresponding authors has appeared in The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Biotechnology and Nature Genetics, illustrating its participation in international clinical research.学校作者以第一作者或通讯作者身份在《新英格兰医学杂志》《自然·生物技术》《自然·遗传学》发表过临床研究成果，显示其参与国际临床研究的程度。
• It was among the eight Chinese medical schools earliest authorised to admit foreign students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan on a fixed basis, a role that shaped its international medical education.学校是全国最早定点招收外国留学生和港澳台（华侨）学生的 8 所医学院校之一，这一身份塑造了其国际医学教育传统。

Campus

• The university operates four campuses, the main campus in Nanning and the Wuming, Wuxiang and Yulin campuses, covering about 3,300 mu in total. The main campus occupies the Jintou Village site taken over in 1954.学校设有校本部以及武鸣、五象、玉林 4 个校区，总占地约 3,300 亩，校本部位于 1954 年接管的津头村校址。
• Construction of the Wuming campus began on 29 November 2016 on a planned site of 1,428 mu, and its first phase opened on 29 December 2019.武鸣校区于 2016 年 11 月 29 日开工，规划总用地面积 1,428 亩，一期工程于 2019 年 12 月 29 日启用。
• The Wuming campus hosts pre-clinical medical teaching and undergraduate programmes outside medicine, taking pressure off the older urban campus.武鸣校区承担医学类专业前期教育和非医学类专业本科教育，缓解了老城校区的办学压力。
• A new medical experiment centre opened at the Wuming campus in 2023, adding laboratory capacity for basic and clinical teaching.2023 年，武鸣校区新的医学实验中心建成启用，为基础与临床教学增加了实验空间。
• The Yulin campus was approved by the regional government on 31 December 2015, with a planned area of 869.9 mu, and its 389.3 mu first phase ran from 28 June 2016 to completion on 5 December 2018. A second phase of about 480.6 mu began in February 2019.玉林校区于 2015 年 12 月 31 日经广西壮族自治区人民政府批准设立，规划总用地面积 869.9 亩，一期工程 389.3 亩于 2016 年 6 月 28 日开工，2018 年 12 月 5 日竣工，二期工程约 480.6 亩于 2019 年 2 月开工。
• The Yulin campus comprises basic medicine, nursing, pharmacy, general practice and rehabilitation divisions plus an attached health school, offering two bachelor's and six vocational programmes. The vocational programmes are nursing, pharmacy, medical laboratory technology, medical cosmetology, rehabilitation therapy and smart health elderly care.玉林校区设有基础部、护理学部、药学部、全科医学部、康复医学部及附设玉林卫生学校，开设护理学、药学 2 个本科专业和护理、药学、医学检验技术、医学美容技术、康复治疗技术、智慧健康养老服务与管理 6 个高职专业。
• The attached Yulin Health School traces its origin to the Yulin Higher Medical College founded on 23 September 1958. It became the Yulin District Health School in 1974 and the Yulin City Health School in 1997, moved into the campus in March 2019 and was placed under the university in October 2020.附设玉林卫生学校的前身是 1958 年 9 月 23 日创建的玉林高等医学专科学校，1974 年更名为玉林地区卫生学校，1997 年改名为玉林市卫生学校，2019 年 3 月整体迁入玉林校区，2020 年 10 月划归广西医科大学管理。
• The university runs five directly affiliated hospitals, including the First Affiliated Hospital, the Second Affiliated Hospital, the Affiliated Tumor Hospital and the Affiliated Stomatological Hospital. The tumor and stomatological hospitals also serve as the regional tumour and stomatological hospitals.学校有 5 所直属附属医院，包括第一附属医院、第二附属医院、附属肿瘤医院和附属口腔医院，其中附属肿瘤医院与附属口腔医院同时冠名广西壮族自治区肿瘤医院和自治区口腔医院。
• Ten non-directly affiliated hospitals in Nanning, Liuzhou, Yulin, Wuzhou, Guigang, Beihai and Qinzhou extend its clinical teaching network. They include Nanning Second People's Hospital, Liuzhou Workers' Hospital, Nanning First People's Hospital and Yulin First People's Hospital.学校在南宁、柳州、玉林、梧州、贵港、北海、钦州等地设有 10 所非直属附属医院，延伸了临床教学网络，其中包括南宁市第二人民医院、柳州市工人医院、南宁市第一人民医院和玉林市第一人民医院。
• The First Affiliated Hospital, the largest hospital in Guangxi, stands close to the main campus and serves as the principal clinical teaching base, allowing students to attend clinical sessions alongside campus courses.第一附属医院是广西规模最大的医院，紧邻校本部，是学校主要的临床教学基地，学生可以在校园课程之外就近参加临床教学。

Reputation

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, Guangxi Medical University is placed in the 701-800 band.在由上海软科教育信息咨询有限公司发布的 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，广西医科大学位列第 701-800 名区间。
• It does not appear in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds.学校未进入由 Quacquarelli Symonds 编制的 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名。
• It is likewise absent from the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, published annually by the London-based magazine.学校同样未进入由伦敦《泰晤士高等教育》杂志每年发布的 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• The 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities ranking places it 1,823rd in the world, a placement based on research reputation and bibliometric indicators.在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单中，学校位列第 1,823 名，该榜单依据科研声誉与文献计量指标编制。
• Its selection for the Excellence in Medical Education programme in 2012 recognised its clinical training model, which the Ministry of Education supports as a national reform.2012 年入选“卓越医生教育培养计划”，是对学校临床医学培养模式的认可，该计划由教育部作为国家级改革项目予以支持。
• The 2013 central and western university capacity project supported infrastructure and laboratory investment as part of an effort to narrow regional gaps in higher education.2013 年入选“中西部高校基础能力建设工程”，该工程支持基础设施与实验室投入，是缩小高等教育区域差距的一项举措。
• Entry into the 111 Plan in 2017 and designation of clinical medicine as a Guangxi first-class discipline strengthened its research recruitment and international partnerships.2017 年入选“111 计划”并使临床医学成为广西一流学科，增强了学校的人才引进能力与国际科研合作。
• Joint construction with the National Health Commission from 2020 tied the university more closely to national health policy and to the commission's medical education priorities.2020 年起与国家卫生健康委员会共建，使学校与国家卫生政策以及该委员会的医学教育重点更加紧密地衔接。
• The National Civilised Campus award in 2025, conferred by the Central Commission for Cultural and Ethical Progress, recognised its campus culture and student support work.2025 年获评全国文明校园，这一称号由中央精神文明建设指导委员会授予，体现了学校在校园文化与育人环境方面的建设成效。

Student life

• About 64,516 full-time students study at the university, supported by 2,403 full-time teachers. The student body includes undergraduates, master's and doctoral candidates and international students.学校有全日制在校学生 64,516 人，专任教师 2,403 人，学生群体包括本科生、硕士生、博士生与留学生。
• Undergraduates choose among 31 majors, while graduate students pursue 11 first-level master's disciplines and nine professional master's categories.本科生可在 31 个专业中选择，研究生教育覆盖 11 个一级学科硕士点和 9 个硕士专业学位类别。
• Clinical students rotate through five directly affiliated and ten non-directly affiliated hospitals across Guangxi, beginning clinical placements in the later years of the curriculum.临床医学专业学生在广西各地 5 所直属附属医院和 10 所非直属附属医院轮转实习，临床实习安排在高年级阶段。
• The six-year English-medium MBBS track, in place since 2008, admits international students for clinical medicine.自 2008 年起实施的六年制英语授课 MBBS 项目面向留学生招收临床医学专业学生。
• International students come mainly from Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Nepal and Mauritius, with others from Somalia, Yemen, Kenya, Nigeria, Namibia, Thailand and Libya.留学生主要来自越南、印度、印度尼西亚、尼泊尔和毛里求斯，也有来自索马里、也门、肯尼亚、尼日利亚、纳米比亚、泰国和利比亚的学生。
• Exchange links with Temple University in the United States and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman in Malaysia support student and faculty mobility. Temple is a public research university in Philadelphia, while Tunku Abdul Rahman is a private Malaysian university.学校与美国天普大学、马来西亚拉曼大学建立交流合作关系，支持师生流动，天普大学是费城的一所公立研究型大学，拉曼大学则是马来西亚的私立大学。
• The Yulin campus offers nursing and pharmacy degrees and six vocational programmes, including medical laboratory technology and rehabilitation therapy.玉林校区开设护理学、药学本科专业以及医学检验技术、康复治疗技术等 6 个高职专业。
• The motto "Great Virtue, Aspiration, Broad Learning, Promoting Medicine" sums up the university's medical ethos. Its four phrases are drawn from classical Chinese texts, including the Book of Changes and the Analects.校训“厚德励志、博学弘医”概括了学校的医学精神，其中“厚德”“博学”等语分别出自《易经》《论语》等经典。
• Entering students take the medical oath, which begins with the words "Health is entrusted to us, life is committed to us" and is printed in the university's identity guidelines.新生入学时宣读医学生誓言，誓言以“健康所系，性命相托”开篇，并收录于学校的视觉识别规范。
• The university emblem combines the rod of Asclepius, a sundial and the founding year, and its standard colour is ochre.学校校徽以蛇杖、日晷和建校时间为核心元素，标准色为赭石色。

Notable people

• Ge Shaolong was appointed the first president of the Guangxi Provincial Medical College when preparations began in July 1934, four months before the college opened.1934 年 7 月筹备之初，戈绍龙被任命为广西省立医学院首任院长，四个月后学院正式成立。
• Zhang Rong served as acting president during the preparatory period before the college opened in November 1934.张镕在 1934 年 11 月学院正式成立前担任筹备期间代理院长。
• Huang Xuchu, then chairman of Guangxi, concurrently served as president of the provincial medical college from September 1939.时任广西省主席的黄旭初自 1939 年 9 月起兼任广西省立医学院院长。
• Yang Qichao was a leading figure in the Chinese research that produced the artesunate injection, an injectable treatment for severe malaria.杨启超是我国“青蒿琥酯”针剂研究的开拓者与带头人之一，该针剂用于重症疟疾治疗。
• Su Fangrong helped found microsurgery and hand surgery at the First Affiliated Hospital, two specialties that became clinical strengths of the hospital.苏方荣是广西医科大学第一附属医院显微外科与手外科的创始人之一，这两个专科后来成为该院的临床优势。
• Huang Guangwu, a former president, was among Guangxi's first lifetime professors, a title conferred by the regional government.黄光武曾任学校校长，是广西首批终身教授之一，该称号由自治区政府授予。
• Peng Minhao was also named one of Guangxi's first lifetime professors and worked in hepatobiliary surgery at the First Affiliated Hospital.彭民浩同样获聘广西首批终身教授，长期在广西医科大学第一附属医院从事肝胆外科工作。
• Tang Bushu, a former president, is a specialist in gynaecological oncology.唐步坚曾任广西医科大学校长，是妇科肿瘤领域的专家。
• Zhao Yongxiang, a professor and vice-president of the university, is an academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences and works on biotargeted tumour diagnosis and treatment.赵永祥是广西医科大学教授、副校长，国际欧亚科学院院士，主要从事肿瘤生物靶向诊治研究。
• Zeng Zhiyu, a cardiologist, serves as president of the university.曾志羽为心血管病专家，现任广西医科大学校长。
• Liang Xiaoxia, an alumna, was a nurse on the Guangxi medical team sent to Wuhan in 2020 and died during the COVID-19 response. She was posthumously honoured for her service.校友梁小霞是 2020 年广西援鄂医疗队护士，在新冠疫情防控期间殉职，身后获授荣誉表彰。
• Long Guifang is a recipient of the State Council special government allowance, which is awarded to leading experts.龙桂芳是享受国务院政府特殊津贴的专家，该津贴面向各领域骨干专家发放。
• Luo Renzi was one of the founders of the university's pathology discipline, an early basic medical field at the school.罗人滋是广西医科大学病理学科的奠基人之一，病理学是学校早期的基础医学学科。