Naval Medical University

The Naval Medical University, also known as the Second Military Medical University, is a public medical university in Yangpu, Shanghai, China, affiliated with the People's Liberation Army Navy and one of the country's leading military medical schools.中国人民解放军海军军医大学，对外又称第二军医大学，是位于中国上海杨浦的一所公立医科大学，隶属中国人民解放军海军，也是中国主要的军医大学之一。

It was founded in September 1949 as the East China Military Region People's Medical College and adopted its present name in 2017, when the Second Military Medical University merged with the Naval Medical Research Institute, having been based in Yangpu since the 1950s apart from a 1969-1975 relocation to Xi'an.学校于1949年9月以华东军区人民医学院之名创立，2017年第二军医大学与海军医学研究所合并调整后改用现名，除1969年至1975年迁往西安外，校部自20世纪50年代起一直设在杨浦。

It is a national Double First-Class university whose basic medicine discipline is on the construction list, and it is also a Project 211 institution.学校是国家「双一流」建设高校，基础医学入选建设学科名单，同时也是「211工程」院校。

History

• In February 1947 the Health Department of the East China Military Region and Third Field Army established a medical college in Caozhuang, Yiyuan County, Shandong, with Cui Yitian, head of the region's health department, as concurrent president and 61 students enrolled, most of them educated young people from Shanghai, Nanjing, Jiangsu and Shandong who had travelled to the liberated areas.1947年2月，华东军区、第三野战军卫生部在山东沂源县曹庄成立医学院，由军区卫生部部长崔义田兼任院长，首届招收学员61人，多为从上海、南京、江苏、山东等地奔赴解放区的知识青年。
• In its early years the college moved with the army through Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanghai, training medical personnel close to the front line.建院初期，学院随军辗转山东、河北、河南、安徽、江苏和上海等地，在接近前线的环境中培养医务人员。
• In March 1949, after the Huaihai campaign, the army formed an admissions group and set up the East China Medical Cadre School in Yangzhou, which was soon renamed the East China Medical College and enrolled more than 800 new students to meet the army's need for doctors and medical orderlies during the Yangtze crossing.1949年3月淮海战役结束后，第三野战军组成招生组，在江苏扬州设立华东医务干部学校，不久更名为华东医学院，共招收800余名新生，以应对渡江作战对医生和卫生员的需求。
• In June 1949 the college moved to Canglangting in Suzhou, and in May 1949 the Shanghai military control commission took over the former National Defence Medical College in Jiangwan, Wujiaochang, together with 475 staff of the Second Joint Logistics General Hospital.1949年6月学院迁至苏州沧浪亭；1949年5月，上海市军管会接管江湾五角场的原国防医学院校舍，以及联勤第二总医院475名工作人员。
• In August 1949 the East China Medical College moved from Suzhou to Shanghai and merged with the preparatory office of the East China Military Region People's Medical College, a medical cadre training brigade and the field army's health school.1949年8月，华东医学院全体师生从苏州迁至上海，与华东军区人民医学院筹备处、医务干部轮训队及野战军卫生学校合并。
• On 12 September 1949 the East China Military Region People's Medical College held its opening ceremony in Shanghai, with Cui Yitian as president, Li Zhenxiang as vice president and Xiang Jin as chief of education.1949年9月12日，华东军区人民医学院在上海举行开学典礼，崔义田任院长，李振湘任副院长，向进任教育长。
• In October 1950 the Central Military Commission named the institution the Shanghai Military Medical University under the General Logistics Department, the beginning of a long affiliation with the PLA logistics system, and the calligraphy of its name was written by Shu Tong, director of the East China Military Region's political department.1950年10月，中央军委将学校命名为中央人民政府人民革命军事委员会上海军医大学，隶属总后方勤务部，由此开始与解放军后勤系统的长期隶属关系，校名由华东军区政治部主任舒同题写。
• On 9 July 1951 the Central Military Commission formally renamed it the Second Military Medical University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.1951年7月9日，中央军委正式将学校命名为中国人民解放军第二军医大学。
• On 27 December 1954 the PLA Naval Medical Research Institute was established in Beijing, and in April 1959 it moved to Shanghai, where it became the navy's main naval medicine research body.1954年12月27日，中国人民解放军海军医学研究所在北京成立，1959年4月迁至上海，成为海军军事医学研究的主要机构。
• In 1964 Chen Yi inscribed the university's name and the title of its journal, an episode still recorded in the university's official history.1964年，陈毅为学校题写校名和校刊刊名，此事至今记载于学校校史。
• On 29 August 1969, during the Cultural Revolution, the Central Military Commission approved a transfer of medical schools, and in October 1969 the Second Military Medical University moved to the former campus of the Fourth Military Medical University on Changle Road in Xi'an.1969年8月29日，正值文化大革命期间，军委办事组批准医科院校调换校址，第二军医大学于1969年10月迁至西安市长乐路原第四军医大学校址。
• In July 1975, with approval from the Central Military Commission, the university returned to its original campus in Shanghai.1975年7月，经中央军委批准，学校迁回上海原校址。
• The university entered the national Project 211 in 1997 and later passed the third phase of the project, the second phase of the military 2110 project and the first phase of the General Logistics Department's 530 project, which together funded laboratory construction and faculty recruitment.学校于1997年进入国家「211工程」，此后先后通过「211工程」三期、军队「2110工程」二期和总后勤部「530工程」一期验收，这些项目为实验室建设和人才引进提供了资金。
• In 1999 the PLA Naval Medical College and the 414th Hospital were merged into the university, and the college became the Nanjing Military Medical College of the Second Military Medical University.1999年，中国人民解放军海军医学高等专科学校与第四一四医院并入学校，该校随后改称第二军医大学南京军医学院。
• The naval college traced its origin to 16 May 1960, when the Central Military Commission ordered a naval health school to be formed at the 415th Hospital in Lianyungang, and it later moved to Qingdao, Guangzhou, Hebei and Nanjing.海军医学高等专科学校的前身可追溯至1960年5月16日，中央军委决定依托连云港的第四一五医院成立海军卫生学校，此后学校先后迁往青岛、广州、河北和南京。
• In 2015, during national defence and military reform, the university was transferred from the General Logistics Department to the Training Management Department of the Central Military Commission.2015年深化国防和军队改革中，学校由中国人民解放军总后勤部转隶中央军委训练管理部。
• In 2017 the Second Military Medical University merged with the Naval Medical Research Institute and was reorganized as the Naval Medical University under the PLA Navy, taking over the institute's diving medicine and underwater physiology programmes.2017年，第二军医大学与海军医学研究所合并调整，组建隶属中国人民解放军海军的海军军医大学，并接管研究所的潜水医学与水下生理学项目。
• The name Second Military Medical University was retained for external use after the 2017 reorganization, and basic medicine was selected into the Double First-Class construction list that year.2017年重组后，学校对外仍保留第二军医大学名称，同年基础医学入选国家「双一流」建设学科名单。
• The university's affiliated hospitals grew alongside the school, with Changhai Hospital serving as the first affiliated hospital and Changzheng Hospital as the second.学校附属医院体系随校本部一同发展，长海医院为第一附属医院，长征医院为第二附属医院。
• The Naval Medical Research Institute, now part of the university, had completed more than 1,500 research projects and received 514 awards between 1978 and 2014, including 27 national science and technology progress awards.并入学校的海军医学研究所截至2014年完成1,500余项科研课题，1978年至2014年获各类成果奖514项，其中国家科技进步奖27项。

Academics

• The university teaches through schools and departments of basic medicine, clinical medicine, naval medicine, pharmacy, nursing and health service management, with naval medicine, covering diving medicine, submarine medicine, naval surgery and maritime rescue, as its defining field.学校通过基础医学、临床医学、海军医学、药学、护理学和卫生事业管理等院系开展教学，海军医学是其特色领域，涵盖潜水医学、潜艇医学、海军外科和海上救援。
• Basic medicine is its single Double First-Class discipline, and the university is also a Project 211 and military 2110 institution.基础医学是学校唯一的「双一流」建设学科，学校同时是「211工程」和军队「2110工程」重点建设院校。
• In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, nursing received an A+ grade, while basic medicine and pharmacy both received A- grades.在全国第四轮学科评估中，护理学获A+等级，基础医学和药学均获A-等级。
• Ten discipline areas enter the top 1 percent of the ESI global ranking, and two of them, including clinical medicine, reach the top 1 per thousand, a threshold met by only a small number of Chinese medical universities.学校有10个学科领域进入ESI全球排名前1%，其中临床医学等2个学科进入全球前1‰，达到这一水平的中国医科大学为数不多。
• The university operates eight national-level science and education platforms, including the State Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology, the National Center for Liver Cancer and the National Clinical Research Center for Digestive Diseases, the immunology laboratory being one of the military's main centres for vaccine and immune regulation research.学校建有8个国字号科教平台，包括医学免疫学国家重点实验室、国家肝癌科学中心和国家消化系统疾病临床医学研究中心，其中免疫学实验室是军队疫苗与免疫调节研究的主要基地之一。
• A further 22 laboratories are designated as provincial, ministerial or military key laboratories, supporting research in immunology, oncology, surgery and naval medicine.学校另有22个省部级和军队重点实验室，支撑免疫学、肿瘤学、外科学和海军医学研究。
• The faculty includes seven academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or Chinese Academy of Engineering, 10 chief scientists of the 973 programme and 22 Changjiang Scholars.师资队伍中有7名两院院士、10名「973」计划首席科学家和22名长江学者。
• It also counts six national Ten Thousand Talents selections, 12 national candidates of the Bai-Qian-Wan talent project, seven Ho Leung Ho Lee awardees and 18 Distinguished Young Scholars of the National Natural Science Foundation.学校还有6名国家「万人计划」入选者、12名「百千万人才工程」国家级人选、7名何梁何利奖获得者和18名国家杰出青年科学基金获得者。
• Eight national innovation teams and four national teaching teams work at the university, alongside 32 military high-level scientific and technological innovation talents.学校拥有8个国家级创新团队、4个国家级教学团队和32名军队高层次科技创新人才。
• Military cadets may study eight-year clinical medicine, eight-year traditional Chinese medicine, five-year clinical medicine, anaesthesiology, psychiatry, medical imaging, preventive medicine, public administration or nursing, and all cadets must pass a military medical examination and political review.生长军官学员可攻读八年制临床医学、八年制中医学、五年制临床医学、麻醉学、精神医学、医学影像学、预防医学、公共事业管理或护理学，所有学员均须通过军检和政审。
• Civilian students without military status may study eight-year or five-year clinical medicine, anaesthesiology, medical imaging, traditional Chinese medicine, pharmacy, Chinese pharmacy, biotechnology or nursing.无军籍地方生可攻读八年制或五年制临床医学、麻醉学、医学影像学、中医学、药学、中药学、生物技术或护理学。
• The eight-year clinical medicine track combines undergraduate and doctoral training and is the university's most selective programme.八年制临床医学实行本博贯通培养，是学校选拔要求最高的专业。
• Clinical teaching takes place in the three affiliated hospitals, Changhai, Changzheng and the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, which together cover burns, trauma, hepatobiliary disease, urology and cardiovascular care.临床教学在三所附属医院开展，即长海医院、长征医院和东方肝胆外科医院，覆盖烧伤、创伤、肝胆、泌尿和心血管等专科。
• The university has trained more than 120,000 military medical personnel and supplied more than 85 percent of the navy's medical workforce.学校为全军培养12万余名军事医学人才，海军卫勤人才中85%以上出自该校。
• It has trained more than 1,600 military medical students from 98 countries, mainly through its international military medicine programmes.学校为98个国家培训了1,600余名军事医学留学生，主要通过国际军事医学项目开展。
• The main library holds more than 500,000 volumes and supports the university's medical, naval and nursing curricula.主图书馆藏书50余万册，为医学、海军医学和护理学教学提供文献支持。
• Its research portfolio spans medical immunology, liver cancer, digestive disease, burns, trauma and diving medicine, the last being the core of the Naval Medical Research Institute's work.学校研究涵盖医学免疫学、肝癌、消化系统疾病、烧伤、创伤和潜水医学，其中潜水医学是海军医学研究所的核心方向。
• The Naval Medical Research Institute studies diving medicine, underwater physiology, salvage and rescue, and the human factors of naval equipment, fields that no civilian medical school covers.海军医学研究所研究潜水医学、水下生理、救捞与救援以及海军装备的人机工效，这些领域是民用医学院校所不涉及的。
• The university was among the first group of institutions designated for Double First-Class construction in 2017 and is also part of the military's "double" discipline construction scheme.学校是2017年首批进入国家「双一流」建设行列的高校之一，同时列入军队「双重」学科建设院校。

Campus

• The main campus is at 800 Xiangyin Road in Yangpu District, Shanghai, and is adjacent to Fudan University and Tongji University on a compact site in the city's northeast.校本部位于上海市杨浦区翔殷路800号，毗邻复旦大学和同济大学，校园坐落于上海东北部的紧凑地块。
• The campus combines modern teaching buildings, a library, an experiment building and clinical facilities, and the library alone holds more than 500,000 volumes for medicine, naval medicine and nursing.校园由现代教学楼、图书馆、实验楼和临床设施组成，图书馆藏书50余万册，覆盖医学、海军医学和护理学。
• Changhai Hospital, the first affiliated hospital, is a tertiary Grade A general hospital in Yangpu and a main base for burns, trauma and digestive disease care.第一附属医院长海医院是位于杨浦的三级甲等综合医院，也是烧伤、创伤和消化疾病诊疗的主要基地。
• Changzheng Hospital, the second affiliated hospital, is a tertiary Grade A hospital in Huangpu district known for orthopaedics, neurosurgery and dermatology.第二附属医院长征医院是位于黄浦区的三级甲等医院，以骨科、神经外科和皮肤科见长。
• The Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital is the third affiliated hospital and a national centre for liver cancer and hepatobiliary surgery.第三附属医院东方肝胆外科医院是国家级肝癌与肝胆外科诊疗中心。
• The Nanjing Clinical Medical School is based at the Eastern Theater Command General Hospital at 305 Zhongshan East Road in Nanjing.南京临床医学院设在位于南京市中山东路305号的东部战区总医院。
• The university's hospitals serve both military personnel and the civilian population of Shanghai, and they function as the main clinical training sites for students.学校附属医院同时服务军队人员与上海市民，并作为学生的主要临床教学基地。
• The Yangpu campus lies within Shanghai's university belt, close to the Huangpu River and to the city's major teaching hospitals.杨浦校区位于上海高校聚集带，靠近黄浦江和上海主要教学医院。

Reputation

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the Naval Medical University is placed in the 701-800 band.在2026年软科世界大学学术排名中，海军军医大学位列第701-800名区间。
• The university does not appear in the 2027 QS World University Rankings.该校未进入2027年QS世界大学排名。
• It is not included in the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.该校未进入2027年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名。
• It is not included in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global universities list.该校未进入2026-2027年度U.S. News全球大学榜单。
• Its nursing programme received an A+ in the fourth national discipline evaluation, the highest grade awarded to any of its disciplines.学校护理学在第四轮全国学科评估中获A+，是该校学科评估中的最高等级。
• Basic medicine is a Double First-Class discipline, and clinical medicine is one of two ESI fields in the global top 1 per thousand.基础医学是「双一流」建设学科，临床医学是学校两个进入ESI全球前1‰的学科之一。
• The university has supplied more than 85 percent of the navy's medical personnel and trained more than 120,000 military medical workers, reflecting its role as the navy's principal source of medical officers and researchers.学校为海军输送了85%以上的卫勤人才，并为全军培养12万余名军事医学人才，是海军医疗军官和研究人员的主要来源。
• Its eight national-level platforms include the State Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology and the National Center for Liver Cancer.学校8个国字号平台包括医学免疫学国家重点实验室和国家肝癌科学中心。
• Seven academicians and 22 Changjiang Scholars work at the university, and its affiliated hospitals are among Shanghai's largest tertiary Grade A teaching hospitals.学校有7名两院院士和22名长江学者，其附属医院是上海规模最大的三级甲等教学医院之列。
• Its 2017 designation as a Double First-Class university was part of the first round of that national programme, which named 42 universities as world-class institutions.学校2017年入选「双一流」建设高校，属于该国家计划的首轮名单，首轮共确定42所世界一流大学建设高校。

Student life

• Military cadets become service members on enrolment and live under military management, with political education, physical training and military medicine alongside academic coursework, following a daily timetable that includes morning exercise, roll call and evening study.生长军官学员入学即入伍，实行军事化管理，在专业课程之外接受政治教育、体能训练和军事医学训练，日常作息包括早操、点名和晚自习。
• Civilian students without military status are admitted separately and follow the same medical curriculum without the military service obligation.无军籍地方生单独招生，接受相同的医学课程训练，但不承担服役义务。
• Eight-year clinical medicine students progress from basic science to clinical clerkship and receive doctoral-level research training.八年制临床医学学生从基础医学逐步进入临床实习，并接受博士层次的研究训练。
• The eight-year traditional Chinese medicine programme combines Western medicine with Chinese medical theory and practice.八年制中医学专业将西医课程与中医理论及实践相结合。
• Students in anaesthesiology, psychiatry, medical imaging and preventive medicine train in the affiliated hospitals from their clinical years onward.麻醉学、精神医学、医学影像学和预防医学专业学生从临床阶段起在附属医院接受训练。
• Nursing, pharmacy, Chinese pharmacy and biotechnology students share basic science teaching with medical students in the first years.护理学、药学、中药学和生物技术专业学生在低年级与医学专业学生共享基础医学课程。
• International military medical students study alongside Chinese cadets, and the university has hosted trainees from 98 countries.外国军事医学留学生与中国学员共同学习，学校已接收来自98个国家的培训人员。
• Because the university is a military institution, students wear uniforms, observe military discipline and may be assigned to naval medical units after graduation.由于学校是军队院校，学员着军装、遵守军纪，毕业后可能被分配到海军卫勤单位。
• Cadets are selected through military medical examinations and political review, while civilian places are filled through the national college entrance examination.生长军官学员须通过军检和政审选拔，无军籍地方生则通过全国统一高考录取。

Notable people

• Wu Mengchao, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a hepatobiliary surgeon, founded the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital and received China's State Preeminent Science and Technology Award in 2005.中国工程院院士、肝胆外科专家吴孟超创办了东方肝胆外科医院，并于2005年获得国家最高科学技术奖。
• Cao Xuetao, an immunologist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, served as president of the Second Military Medical University from 2004 to 2010 and later as president of Nankai University.免疫学家、中国工程院院士曹雪涛于2004年至2010年任第二军医大学校长，后任南开大学校长。
• Sun Yinghao, a urologist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, served as president of the university from 2012 to 2019.泌尿外科专家、中国工程院院士孙颖浩于2012年至2019年任学校校长。
• Wang Hongyang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is a molecular oncologist at the Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital.中国工程院院士王红阳是东方肝胆外科医院的分子肿瘤学家。
• Liao Wanqing, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is a dermatologist at Changzheng Hospital known for research on deep fungal infections.中国工程院院士廖万清是长征医院皮肤科专家，以深部真菌感染研究著称。
• Cui Yitian, head of the East China Military Region health department, was the university's first president in 1949 and also served as its party secretary.华东军区卫生部部长崔义田于1949年出任学校首任院长，并兼任党委书记。
• Li Zhenxiang served as vice president from 1949 and helped organize the merger that created the college in Shanghai.李振湘自1949年起任副院长，参与组织了在上海创建学院的合并工作。
• Xiang Jin, the college's first chief of education, later served as president of the Second Military Medical University from 1978 to 1983.学院首任教育长向进后来于1978年至1983年任第二军医大学校长。
• Ying Yuanyue, a parasitologist, served as vice president from 1957 to 1987 and helped build the university's basic medical sciences.寄生虫学家应元岳于1957年至1987年任副校长，参与建设学校的基础医学学科。
• Tu Kaiyuan, an orthopaedic surgeon, served as vice president from 1979 to 1987 and promoted microsurgery and limb replantation in China.骨科专家屠开元于1979年至1987年任副校长，推动了中国显微外科和断肢再植技术的发展。
• Shu Tong, a calligrapher and political commissar, wrote the characters for the university's name when it became the Shanghai Military Medical University in 1950.书法家、政治工作者舒同在学校1950年改称上海军医大学时题写了校名。
• Chen Yi, marshal of the People's Liberation Army, inscribed the university's name and journal title in 1964.中国人民解放军元帅陈毅于1964年为学校题写校名和校刊刊名。
• Liu Jun, a rear admiral, became president of the Naval Medical University in 2019 after the 2017 reorganization.海军少将刘军于2019年出任海军军医大学校长，其时学校已完成2017年重组。