Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine

Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine is a provincial public university in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, affiliated with Guangdong Province and co-built with the Ministry of Education and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine Its two campuses lie in the Baiyun and Panyu districts of the city.广州中医药大学是位于中国广东广州的一所省属公立大学，隶属广东省，由广东省、教育部和国家中医药管理局共建。学校的两个校区分别位于广州市白云区和番禺区。

It traces its origin to the Guangdong Chinese Medicine Specialized School of 1924 and became one of the first four undergraduate colleges of traditional Chinese medicine in New China in 1956 The 1924 school became a college in 1936 and a continuing school in 1952 before the 1956 founding.学校前身是1924年创办的广东中医药专门学校，1956年成为新中国首批四所中医药本科院校之一。1924年的学校于1936年升为专科学校，1952年改为进修学校，随后于1956年建院。

It joined the first round of the Double First-Class Construction and is a Guangdong high-level university with 10 disciplines in the Essential Science Indicators top 1 percent.学校进入首轮「双一流」建设，是广东省高水平大学，10个学科进入基本科学指标数据库全球前1%。

History

• The Guangdong Chinese Medicine Specialized School was founded on 15 September 1924, making it one of the earliest modern institutions for Chinese medicine education in Guangdong.广东中医药专门学校于1924年9月15日创办，是广东最早的现代中医药教育机构之一。
• In 1936 the school was renamed the Guangdong Chinese Medicine Specialized College, reflecting its expansion from a specialized school into a college-level institution.1936年，学校更名为广东中医药专科学校，反映其由专门学校向专科层次的扩展。
• In 1952 the institution became the Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine Continuing School, a step that kept TCM teaching alive during the national reorganisation of medical education.1952年，学校改建为广东中医进修学校，在全国医学教育调整中延续了中医教学。
• In 1956 the State Council approved the establishment of the Guangzhou College of Traditional Chinese Medicine on the foundation of the Guangdong school. The new college was placed under the Ministry of Health, which then supervised medical education nationwide.1956年，国务院批准在广东中医药专门学校的基础上成立广州中医学院。新成立的学院隶属卫生部，当时卫生部统一管理全国医学教育。
• It was one of the first four undergraduate colleges of traditional Chinese medicine created in New China, a group that shaped modern TCM higher education The other three were established in Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu.学校是新中国首批四所高等中医药本科院校之一，这一群体奠定了现代中医药高等教育的基础。另外三所分别设在北京、上海和成都。
• In 1974 the college began enrolling foreign students, becoming one of the earliest Chinese institutions to teach traditional medicine to international students.1974年，学院开始招收外国留学生，成为中国最早向国际学生教授传统医学的院校之一。
• In February 1995 the college was renamed Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, a change that recognised its broader portfolio of TCM, pharmacy and integrative medicine It now awards doctorates in traditional Chinese medicine, integrative medicine and Chinese pharmacy.1995年2月，学院更名为广州中医药大学，这一变化体现了其在中医、中药和中西医结合领域的扩展。学校现可授予中医学、中西医结合和中药学博士学位。
• In 2000 the university's administration passed from the Ministry of Health and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine to a central-local arrangement led by Guangdong Province.2000年，学校由卫生部、国家中医药管理局管理转为中央与地方共建、以广东省管理为主。
• It was listed in Guangdong's 211 Project and later selected as one of the 13 high-level universities of the province The 13 high-level universities programme was launched by the province in 2015.学校入选广东省「211工程」，后来成为广东省13所高水平大学之一。广东省于2015年启动13所高水平大学建设计划。
• In 2017 it entered the first round of the national Double First-Class Construction, with traditional Chinese medicine as its world-class discipline The Double First-Class list was issued jointly by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission.2017年，学校进入首轮国家「双一流」建设，中医学为其世界一流学科。「双一流」名单由教育部、财政部和国家发展改革委联合发布。
• In 2020 Guangdong Province, the Ministry of Education and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine signed a tripartite agreement to co-build the university.2020年，广东省、教育部和国家中医药管理局签署三方共建协议，共同建设广州中医药大学。
• In 2024 the university marked the centenary of its 1924 predecessor and of modern TCM education in Guangdong.2024年，学校迎来1924年前身创办百年，也是广东现代中医药教育的百年。
• In the 2025 ShanghaiRanking ranking of Chinese TCM universities, the university placed fourth nationwide. The ranking is published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.在2025年软科中国中医药大学排名中，学校位列全国第4名。该排名由软科公司发布。
• By its 2026 profile the university had trained more than 180,000 TCM specialists over its century of teaching.根据2026年学校简介，学校在百年办学历程中已培养中医药专门人才18万余人。
• Its alumni include Wu Yiling and Liu Liang, both academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Wu Yiling is known for developing the Lianhua Qingwen capsule.学校校友包括中国工程院院士吴以岭和刘良。吴以岭以研发连花清瘟胶囊闻名。
• The university now operates two campuses with a total area of 1,205 mu, four directly affiliated hospitals and 11 hospitals co-built with governments.学校现有两个校区，总占地面积1,205亩，拥有4所直属附属医院和11所校政合作医院。
• It maintains 75 teaching hospitals, including non-directly affiliated hospitals, and 276 off-campus practice bases.学校有教学医院75家（含非直属附属医院）和276个校外实践基地。
• The university reports that 10 of its disciplines rank in the global top 1 percent of the Essential Science Indicators, with pharmacology and toxicology in the top 0.5 per mille.学校称有10个学科进入基本科学指标数据库全球前1%，其中药理学与毒理学进入全球前0.5‰。

Academics

• The university teaches through 15 secondary colleges and 13 clinical medical colleges, supported by 15 research institutions and five auxiliary units The 13 clinical medical colleges are attached to its affiliated and teaching hospitals.学校设有15个二级学院、13个临床医学院，另有15个科研机构和5个教辅机构。13个临床医学院依托附属医院和教学医院开展教学。
• It offers 26 enrolment majors, including eight national first-class undergraduate major construction points and 11 provincial first-class points.学校开设26个招生专业，拥有8个国家级一流本科专业建设点和11个省级一流本科专业建设点。
• It offers 25 national first-class courses and 116 provincial first-class or curriculum-ideology demonstration courses The 25 national courses include curriculum-ideology demonstration courses.学校拥有国家级一流本科课程、课程思政示范课程25门，省级一流本科课程、课程思政示范课程116门。25门国家级课程中包含课程思政示范课程。
• It has three first-level doctoral disciplines, one professional doctoral category, seven first-level master's disciplines, six professional master's categories and three postdoctoral research stations Its three postdoctoral stations cover traditional Chinese medicine, integrative medicine and Chinese pharmacy.学校拥有3个博士学位授权一级学科、1个博士专业学位类别、7个硕士学位授权一级学科、6个硕士专业学位授权类别和3个博士后科研流动站。学校3个博士后科研流动站覆盖中医学、中西医结合和中药学。
• It is one of the first national pilot universities for the Excellent Doctor (TCM) education reform and for the TCM top innovative talent training model.学校是全国首批实施「卓越医生（中医）教育培养计划改革试点」和承担「中医拔尖创新人才模式改革试点」项目的高校。
• It also runs three Guangdong brand majors and eight higher vocational programmes alongside its undergraduate degrees.学校还拥有3个广东省名牌专业，并在本科之外开设8个高等职业技术教育专业。
• Enrolment totals 24,973 students, including 13,177 undergraduates, 10,058 postgraduate students and 1,738 students from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and overseas.学校在读生24,973人，其中本科生13,177人、研究生10,058人、港澳台侨及国际学生1,738人。
• The university employs 14,078 staff, of whom 1,453 work on the main campus and 12,625 in affiliated hospitals, with 2,572 holding senior professional titles Affiliated hospital staff account for nearly 90 percent of the total.学校教职工14,078人，其中校本部1,453人、附属医院12,625人，具有高级职称者2,572人。附属医院人员约占教职工总数的近九成。
• Its faculty includes more than 140 national-level talents and 280 provincial-level talents, among them CAE academician Liu Liang, national TCM masters Zhou Daihan and Lin Yi and artemisinin researcher Li Guoqiao The university also lists four national teaching masters and eight provincial teaching masters.学校拥有国家级人才140余人、省级人才280余人，包括中国工程院院士刘良、国医大师周岱翰和林毅、青蒿抗疟专家李国桥。学校还拥有全国教学名师4名、省级教学名师8名。
• It holds four national key disciplines, seven key disciplines of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and eight Guangdong key disciplines TCM internal medicine holds a Changjiang Scholars distinguished professorship.学校拥有4个国家重点学科、7个国家中医药管理局重点学科和8个广东省重点学科。中医内科学设有「长江学者奖励计划」特聘教授岗位。
• Ten disciplines, including clinical medicine, pharmacology and toxicology, chemistry, biology and biochemistry and neuroscience, are in the ESI global top 1 percent The ten span medicine, chemistry, biology, agriculture, neuroscience, immunology and materials science.临床医学、药理学与毒理学、化学、生物与生物化学、神经科学与行为学等10个学科进入基本科学指标数据库全球前1%。这10个学科覆盖医学、化学、生物学、农学、神经科学、免疫学和材料科学。
• Its nine national research platforms include the State Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome and a national medical research industry-education integration platform.学校拥有9个国家级科研平台，包括中医证候全国重点实验室和国家医学攻关产教融合创新平台。
• A further 61 provincial and ministerial platforms include the Guangdong Laboratory of Chinese Medicine and the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Lingnan Chinese Medicine Resources.学校另有61个省部级科研平台，包括中医药广东省实验室和岭南中药资源教育部重点实验室。
• Between 2021 and 2025 it undertook 3,551 vertical research projects worth 950 million RMB, including 663 national projects, and led one National Science and Technology Progress Award The university also participated in two second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.2021年至2025年，学校承担纵向科研项目3,551项，经费9.5亿元，其中国家级项目663项，牵头获得国家科技进步奖1项。学校还参与获得国家科技进步二等奖2项。
• Its four directly affiliated hospitals are supported by 11 government co-built hospitals and 75 teaching hospitals across Guangdong.学校4所直属附属医院之外，还有11所校政合作医院和75家教学医院，分布于广东各地。
• Its network of 30 affiliated tertiary hospitals, including four directly affiliated hospitals, is described by the university as the largest in China.学校拥有30所附属三级医院，其中4所为直属附属医院，学校称其附属医院数量居全国之首。
• The First Affiliated Hospital is a national base for major epidemic treatment and hosts one of China's largest clusters of regional TCM specialty centres Both the First and Second Affiliated Hospitals are national TCM inheritance and innovation centres.第一附属医院是国家重大疫情救治基地，也是全国区域中医专科诊疗中心最多的医院之一。第一、第二附属医院均入选国家中医药传承创新中心。
• The Second Affiliated Hospital has topped the China TCM Hospital Competitiveness list for 11 consecutive years and ranked first in national TCM hospital science and technology metrics for six years It is building China's first comprehensive national medical centre for traditional Chinese medicine.第二附属医院连续11年位居「中国中医医院竞争力100强」榜首，连续6年位列全国中医医院科技量值第一。该院正在建设全国首个中医综合类国家医学中心。
• The Third Affiliated Hospital is a tertiary A hospital specialising in orthopaedics and traumatology, with TCM bone injury as its leading specialty.第三附属医院是广东省三级甲等骨伤专科医院，以中医骨伤科为龙头专科。
• The Guangdong Chinese Medicine Museum, a national second-level museum, shares a national TCM culture education base designation with the first and second affiliated hospitals.广东中医药博物馆是全国高校首批国家二级博物馆，与第一、第二附属医院同为首批全国中医药文化宣传教育基地。
• The university works with 15 prefecture-level cities on industry-academia-research cooperation and supports GAP cultivation of 50 Dao-di and bulk medicinal herbs on more than 2 million mu.学校与省内15个地市开展产学研合作，指导50种道地与大宗南药的GAP关键技术和200多万亩规范化种植基地建设。
• Its artemisinin compound and malaria control programme has been applied in more than 10 countries, and it runs seven national TCM overseas centres and five national international cooperation bases The artemisinin team received the 28th China Youth May Fourth Medal as a collective.学校研发的青蒿素复方及疟疾防治方案已在10余个国家应用，并建有7个国家级中医药海外中心和5个国家级中医药国际合作基地。学校青蒿抗疟援外医疗队荣获第28届中国青年五四奖章集体。
• Its six medicine products, including Weinai'an, Guxianpian, Xiaoke Wan, Jinfo Zhitong Wan, Zishen Yutai Wan and Weizhitong capsules, are sold across China.学校研发的胃乃安、骨仙片、消渴丸、金佛止痛丸、滋肾育胎丸和胃止痛胶囊等中成药畅销全国。
• It has built seven national TCM overseas centres, five national international cooperation bases, a Singapore institute and six professional alliances, including the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao TCM Alliance.学校建有7个国家级中医药海外中心、5个国家级中医药国际合作基地、新加坡国际中医药教育研究院和包括粤港澳中医药联盟在内的6个专业联盟。
• It maintains four inheritance stations at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a joint laboratory with Hong Kong and Macau partners.学校在香港中文大学建立4个传承工作站，并建设教育部粤港澳联合实验室。

Campus

• The university has two campuses, the University Town campus in Panyu and the older Sanyuanli campus in Baiyun, with a combined area of 1,205 mu The University Town campus is the larger of the two.学校有番禺大学城校区和白云三元里老校区两个校区，总占地面积1,205亩。大学城校区是两个校区中面积较大的一个。
• The Sanyuanli campus covers 327 mu at 12 Jichang Road in Baiyun District and houses the university's older teaching and clinical facilities.三元里校区占地327亩，位于白云区机场路12号，集中了学校较早的教学与临床设施。
• The University Town campus covers nearly 1,050 mu on Xiaoguwei Island in Panyu District, at 232 Waihuan East Road.大学城校区占地近1,050亩，位于番禺区小谷围岛外环东路232号。
• The University Town campus occupies Xiaoguwei Island, which Guangzhou developed as a higher education mega centre shared by ten universities.大学城校区位于小谷围岛，广州在此建设了由十所高校共享的大学城。
• The two campuses divide basic science and clinical teaching between the historic city site and the purpose-built University Town site.两个校区将基础学科与临床教学分布在老城区校址和新建大学城校址。
• The Guangdong Chinese Medicine Museum on campus holds collections of medicinal specimens, historical instruments and TCM literature.校园内的广东中医药博物馆收藏有药材标本、历史器具和中医药文献。
• Its four directly affiliated hospitals and 11 government co-built hospitals place clinical training across Guangzhou and the wider Pearl River Delta.学校4所直属附属医院和11所校政合作医院，将临床教学布局到广州及更广阔的珠三角地区。
• The university maintains 276 off-campus practice bases in addition to its teaching hospitals.除教学医院外，学校还建有276个校外实践基地。
• Fifteen research institutions, including the Lingnan Chinese medicine resource and TCM oncology groups, are distributed across the two campuses.岭南中药资源、中医药防治肿瘤等15个科研机构分布在两个校区。

Reputation

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine is placed in the 701-800 band. The band covers universities ranked between 701st and 800th worldwide.在2026年软科世界大学学术排名中，广州中医药大学位列第701-800名区间。该区间覆盖全球第701至第800名的高校。
• The university does not appear in the 2027 QS World University Rankings The 2027 edition was released in June 2026.学校未进入2027年QS世界大学排名。2027年版排名于2026年6月发布。
• It is not included in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.学校未进入2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• It is ranked 1,401st in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global universities list. The list is published annually by U.S. News and World Report.学校在2026-2027年度U.S. News全球大学榜单中位列第1,401名。该榜单由美国新闻与世界报道每年发布。
• It was among the first group of Double First-Class universities in 2017, with traditional Chinese medicine as its designated world-class discipline The designation brings national funding for its TCM discipline.学校于2017年进入首轮「双一流」建设，中医学为指定世界一流学科。这一身份为中医学学科带来国家建设经费。
• It is one of 13 high-level universities in Guangdong and a provincial 211 Project institution, two designations that concentrate provincial research funding The 13 high-level universities receive extra provincial investment.学校是广东省13所高水平大学之一和省级「211工程」高校，这两项身份集中了省级科研资源。13所高水平大学获得省级额外建设投入。
• In the 2025 ShanghaiRanking ranking of Chinese TCM universities, it placed fourth nationwide.在2025年软科中国中医药大学排名中，学校位列全国第4名。
• It is one of the first four undergraduate colleges of traditional Chinese medicine established in New China in 1956.学校是1956年新中国首批建立的4所中医药本科院校之一。
• Ten of its disciplines rank in the ESI global top 1 percent, with pharmacology and toxicology in the top 0.5 per mille, a profile led by TCM and clinical medicine.学校10个学科进入基本科学指标数据库全球前1%，药理学与毒理学进入前0.5‰，形成以中医药和临床医学为主的学科格局。
• Its 180,000 graduates include CAE academicians Wu Yiling and Liu Liang and a large share of Guangdong's TCM hospital leadership.学校18万名毕业生中包括中国工程院院士吴以岭、刘良，以及广东中医医院系统的大量骨干。

Student life

• 24,973 students study at the university, including 13,177 undergraduates and 10,058 postgraduates.学校有在读生24,973人，其中本科生13,177人、研究生10,058人。
• Students choose from 26 enrolment majors, eight of which are national first-class undergraduate major construction points.学生可从26个招生专业中选择，其中8个为国家级一流本科专业建设点。
• The 1,738 students from Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and overseas make international and regional exchange a visible part of campus life.1,738名港澳台侨及国际学生使国际与区域交流成为校园生活的重要组成部分。
• Student organisations include a student union, a campus radio station, a club federation, a work-study service, an English home and a Chinese medicine association The Chinese medicine association organises herbal study and clinical skills activities.学生组织包括学生会、广播台、社团联合会、勤工俭学服务、英语之家和中医协会。中医协会组织识药采药和临床技能活动。
• The university was selected in the second batch of national demonstration universities for deepening innovation and entrepreneurship education reform.学校入选全国第二批深化创新创业教育改革示范高校。
• Clinical students train in four directly affiliated hospitals, 11 government co-built hospitals and 75 teaching hospitals.临床专业学生在4所直属附属医院、11所校政合作医院和75家教学医院接受训练。
• Its 276 off-campus practice bases extend student placements into pharmacies, research institutes and community health services.学校276个校外实践基地将学生实习延伸到药企、研究机构和社区卫生服务。
• International students have enrolled since 1974, and the university has trained more than 20,000 TCM specialists from over 110 countries and regions.学校自1974年开始招收留学生，已为110多个国家和地区培养2万多名中医药高级人才。

Notable people

• Deng Tietao, a 1932 alumnus and lifetime professor, was named a national master of traditional Chinese medicine in 2009 and lived from 1916 to 2019.1932级校友、终身教授邓铁涛于2009年获评国医大师，生于1916年，2019年逝世。
• Deng Tietao was born in Kaiping, Guangdong, in 1916, graduated in 1932 and died in 2019.邓铁涛1916年生于广东开平，1932年毕业，2019年逝世。
• Liu Shichang, a 1933 alumnus and lifetime professor, was a leading Lingnan warm-disease specialist who at 89 helped treat SARS patients in 2003 He was born in Huizhou, Guangdong, in 1914 and died in 2007.1933级校友、终身教授刘仕昌是岭南温病大家，2003年SARS期间以89岁高龄参与诊治患者。他1914年生于广东惠州，2007年逝世。
• Lin Yi is a national master of traditional Chinese medicine and a leading figure in breast disease treatment.林毅是国医大师，也是全国乳腺病学科的领军人物。
• Xuan Guowei is a national master of traditional Chinese medicine known for research on skin and venereal diseases.禤国维是国医大师，以皮肤性病研究著称。
• Zhou Daihan is a national master of traditional Chinese medicine on the university's current faculty He specialises in TCM oncology.周岱翰是学校现任国医大师。他专长于中医肿瘤学。
• Li Guoqiao, an international authority on artemisinin and malaria control, developed the university's artemisinin combination therapy programme.李国桥是国际知名的青蒿素抗疟专家，主持学校青蒿素复方治疗方案研究。
• Liu Liang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is a current faculty member and one of the university's best-known clinical researchers.中国工程院院士刘良是学校现任教师，也是学校最知名的临床研究者之一。
• Wu Yiling, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, graduated from the university and founded Yiling Pharmaceutical He founded Yiling Pharmaceutical in Shijiazhuang.中国工程院院士吴以岭毕业于学校，并创办了以岭药业。他在石家庄创办了以岭药业。
• Zhang Zhongde, a vice president of the university, was named a national advanced individual in the fight against COVID-19.学校副校长张忠德被评为全国抗击新冠肺炎疫情先进个人。
• Luo Yuankai, Situ Ling, Huang Yaoshen and Liang Naijin were among the renowned physicians who taught at the university.罗元恺、司徒铃、黄耀燊、梁乃津等名医曾在校执教。
• Song Jianping, a specialist in integrative medicine, is listed among the university's faculty.中西医结合专家宋建平是学校教师之一。