Southern Medical University

Southern Medical University is a provincial public medical university in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, with a second campus in Shunde, Foshan, and a network of directly affiliated teaching hospitals.南方医科大学是位于广东省广州市白云区的一所省属公立医科大学，在佛山顺德设有校区，并拥有一批直属附属教学医院。

It descends from the Northeast Military Region Medical School founded in Qiqihar in 1951, served as the People's Liberation Army First Military Medical University from 1975, and was transferred to Guangdong Province and renamed in August 2004.该校前身是 1951 年在齐齐哈尔创办的东北军区军医学校，1975 年起为中国人民解放军第一军医大学，2004 年 8 月整体移交广东省并更名为南方医科大学。

Southern Medical University sits in the 201-300 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, is tied 284th in the 2027 Times Higher Education ranking, and ranks 494th in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global table.该校在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中处于第 201 至 300 名区间，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中并列第 284 位，在 2026 至 2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学排名中位列第 494 位。

History

• In August 1951 the Northeast Military Region decided to create a medical school on the basis of the PLA Second Army Hospital to meet the casualty demands of the Korean War, choosing Qiqihar in Heilongjiang as its site.1951 年 8 月，东北军区决定以解放军第二陆军医院为基础创建一所军医学校，以应对朝鲜战争的伤员救治需求，校址选定在黑龙江齐齐哈尔。
• The school was formally established on 30 October 1951 under the health department of the Northeast Military Region logistics command, with Li Ziping, a deputy minister of that department, as its first president.该校于 1951 年 10 月 30 日正式成立，隶属东北军区后勤部卫生部，由该部副部长李资平出任首任校长。
• In January 1953 the Central Military Commission standardised the numbering of military medical schools, and the institution became the PLA No. 11 Army Medical Secondary School with a two-year programme for medical assistants.1953 年 1 月，中央军委统一全军军医学校序列，该校改称解放军第十一军医中学，学制两年，培养部队卫生保健所需的医助。
• In May 1954 it was renamed the PLA No. 11 Army Medical School and extended to a three-year programme intended to produce second-level military doctors.1954 年 5 月，学校改称解放军第十一军医学校，学制延长为三年，培养目标为二级军医。
• On 18 January 1956 the school passed to the General Logistics Department of the PLA, and in March 1956 the school and its hospital moved from the Shenyang Military Region to that command.1956 年 1 月 18 日，学校转由解放军总后勤部领导，同年 3 月，学校及附属医院由沈阳军区移交总后勤部。
• In June 1958 the school was transferred wholesale to civilian administration, merged with the No. 2164 Hospital and renamed Qiqihar Medical College, with its programme lengthened from three years to five.1958 年 6 月，学校集体转业移交地方，与第二一六四医院合并后更名齐齐哈尔医学院，学制由三年延长为五年。
• In January 1962 the college and its hospital returned to the General Logistics Department as the PLA Qiqihar Medical College, running a three-year course mainly for serving officers.1962 年 1 月，学院及附属医院重归总后勤部建制，改称解放军齐齐哈尔医学院，学制三年，主要培养在职军队干部。
• On 21 October 1966 the institution was renamed the PLA Military Medical College, the name it carried through the Cultural Revolution and its two relocations.1966 年 10 月 21 日，学校更名为解放军军医学院，这一校名伴随它度过了文化大革命及其后的两次迁移。
• In August 1969 the college was ordered to move from Qiqihar to Changsha, taking over the former campus of the PLA Engineering Corps Academy, and the transfer began on 3 October 1969.1969 年 8 月，学院奉命从齐齐哈尔迁往长沙，进驻原解放军工程兵学院校址，调迁行动于 1969 年 10 月 3 日开始。
• On 4 February 1970, with Premier Zhou Enlai's approval, the State Council and the Central Military Commission assigned the closed Jinan University campus at Shipai, Guangzhou, to the college, which moved south.1970 年 2 月 4 日，经周恩来总理批准，国务院与中央军委把广州石牌已停办的暨南大学校舍拨给该院使用，学院随之南迁。
• In April 1970 the PLA Guangzhou Military Region Health School was merged into the college, beginning a cycle of mergers and separations that lasted three decades.1970 年 4 月，解放军广州军区卫生学校并入该院，由此开启了一场延续三十年的合并与分拆循环。
• On 24 July 1975 a Central Military Commission document renamed the institution the First Military Medical University of the People's Liberation Army, under the General Logistics Department.1975 年 7 月 24 日，中央军委文件批复将学院改称中国人民解放军第一军医大学，隶属总后勤部建制。
• In 1976 the university created a Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, adding Chinese medicine to a curriculum that had been exclusively Western and military.1976 年，学校增设中医系，把中医学纳入此前纯属西医与军事医学的课程体系。
• In February 1978 the PLA No. 103 Hospital was incorporated as the Second Affiliated Hospital, known externally as Zhujiang Hospital, while the original hospital became the First Affiliated Hospital, or Nanfang Hospital.1978 年 2 月，解放军第一〇三医院被编入该校作为第二附属医院，对外称珠江医院，原附属医院则成为第一附属医院，即南方医院。
• In April 1978, with Ye Jianying's support, the Central Military Commission approved a new campus at Qilinkang in the northeastern suburbs of Guangzhou, since the reopened Jinan University needed its Shipai buildings back.1978 年 4 月，在叶剑英关怀下，中央军委批准在广州市东北郊麒麟岗建设新校区，原因是复办的暨南大学需要收回石牌校舍。
• In 1978 the university moved to a four-year curriculum and began enrolling students nationwide, and in 1979 it was designated a national key institution, extended to five years and began admitting master's students.1978 年，学校改为四年制并面向全国招生，1979 年被确定为全国重点院校，学制延长为五年，并开始招收硕士研究生。
• In February 1980 Ye Jianying personally inscribed the university's name, a calligraphic title that remains part of its visual identity.1980 年 2 月，叶剑英亲笔题写校名，这幅题字此后一直是学校视觉形象的一部分。
• In November 1992 the Guangzhou Military Region Health School merged into the university as its nursing department, and in June 1993 that department was detached again to form the PLA Guangzhou Medical College.1992 年 11 月，广州军区卫生学校并入该校成为护理系，1993 年 6 月该系又分出，改建为解放军广州医学高等专科学校。
• In July 1999 the Guangzhou Medical College was merged back into the First Military Medical University, closing the last of the institutional splits.1999 年 7 月，广州医学高等专科学校再次并入第一军医大学，此前反复出现的建制分合至此结束。
• In November 2003 the Central Military Commission decided at its fifteenth all-army academy conference to transfer the entire university to civilian administration as part of a wider restructuring.2003 年 11 月，中央军委在全军第十五次院校工作会议上决定，把该校整体移交地方，作为全军编制体制调整改革的一部分。
• On 29 May 2004 a State Council and Central Military Commission reply authorised the transfer to Guangdong, and on 24 August 2004 a handover ceremony in the university auditorium marked the renaming as Southern Medical University.2004 年 5 月 29 日，国务院办公厅与中央军委办公厅复函批准移交广东省，2004 年 8 月 24 日，学校礼堂举行移交仪式，正式更名南方医科大学。
• The reply covered four military institutions, including the Quartermaster University, and specified that the First Military Medical University would pass to Guangdong and operate as an independent civilian institution rather than be merged into an existing provincial university.该复函涉及包括军需大学在内的四所军队院校，并明确第一军医大学移交广东省后独立办学，而不是并入已有的省属高校。
• Between 1951 and 2004 the institution carried eight successive names, from the Northeast Military Region Medical School through the No. 11 Army Medical School and the PLA Military Medical College to the First Military Medical University.1951 年至 2004 年间，该校先后使用过八个校名，从东北军区军医学校、第十一军医学校、解放军军医学院一直到第一军医大学。
• In 2004 the new university was approved as one of the first eight Chinese institutions to pilot an eight-year clinical medicine programme, a track that combines undergraduate, master's and doctoral training.2004 年，新更名的学校获批为全国首批八所试办八年制临床医学教育的高校之一，该学制贯通本科、硕士与博士培养。

Academics

• The university teaches clinical medicine at bachelor's and master's level together with traditional Chinese medicine, economics and other medically related fields.该校在本科与硕士层面开设临床医学，并设置中医学、经济学及其他与医学相关的专业方向。
• Its eight-year clinical medicine track, approved in 2004, is designed to carry a small cohort from undergraduate basic science to doctoral-level clinical training without a break.该校 2004 年获批的八年制临床医学专业，旨在让一个小规模班级从本科基础医学一路连续培养到博士阶段的临床训练。
• Postgraduate education dates from 1979, when the university was named a national key institution and began admitting master's students in the same year.研究生教育可追溯至 1979 年，该校同年被确定为全国重点院校并开始招收硕士研究生。
• The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, created in 1976, grew into a standing component of the curriculum rather than an optional add-on to Western medicine.1976 年设立的中医系逐步发展为课程体系中的固定组成部分，而非西医学之外的附加选修。
• Chinese students take basic English courses, while international students take Mandarin, a structure that reflects the university's separate domestic and overseas clinical tracks.中国学生修读基础英语课程，留学生则学习汉语，这一结构反映出该校国内与海外两条并行的临床培养轨道。
• The university is recognised by the World Health Organization and by the Medical Council of India, recognition that underpins its recruitment of international medical students.该校获得世界卫生组织与印度医学委员会的认可，这一认可为其招收国际医学生提供了基础。
• Its research awards include two second prizes of the National Natural Science Award, one second prize of the National Technological Invention Award and fifteen second prizes of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award.该校的科研奖励包括两项国家自然科学奖二等奖、一项国家技术发明奖二等奖以及十五项国家科学技术进步奖二等奖。
• One patent took the Excellence Award of the National Patent Award, and four scientific and technological achievements were selected among the Ten National Progress of Science and Technology events.该校有一项专利获中国专利奖优秀奖，另有四项科技成果入选「中国十大科技进展」。
• Clinical teaching is distributed across the directly affiliated hospitals, which the university now counts at thirteen, including Nanfang Hospital and Zhujiang Hospital.临床教学分布在直属附属医院中，学校目前统计有十三所直属附属医院，其中包括南方医院与珠江医院。
• Nanfang and Zhujiang, the two oldest affiliated hospitals, date from the 1978 reorganisation in which the No. 103 Hospital became the second teaching hospital.南方医院与珠江医院是历史最久的两所附属医院，其格局源自 1978 年把第一〇三医院编为第二附属医院的那次调整。
• Six of the affiliated hospitals have been appraised as First-Class Hospitals at Grade III, the top tier of China's hospital accreditation system, which governs how complex cases reach student rotations.该校有六所附属医院被评为三级甲等医院，这是中国医院评审体系中的最高等级，也决定了疑难病例如何进入学生轮转。
• A stomatology hospital within the affiliated network carries dental teaching, adding oral medicine to a portfolio otherwise dominated by general clinical medicine and Chinese medicine.附属医院网络中的口腔医院承担牙科教学，使口腔医学进入原本以综合临床与中医为主的学科布局。
• The university is jointly built by the Ministry of Education, the National Health Commission and the Guangdong provincial government, and it is one of thirteen Guangdong High-Level Universities.该校由教育部、国家卫生健康委员会与广东省人民政府三方共建，并且是广东省十三所高水平大学之一。
• In the 2025 ShanghaiRanking table of Chinese medical universities the university placed third nationally, its strongest domestic result in a discipline-specific ranking.在 2025 年软科中国医药类大学排名中，该校位列全国第三，这是其在学科类榜单上取得的最好国内成绩。
• Its hospital network supplies the patient volume that a medical university needs, and the affiliated hospitals together function as the clinical campus for every undergraduate cohort.其医院网络提供了医科大学所需的病例规模，各附属医院合起来构成每一届本科生的临床校区。
• Teaching hospitals were attached at each stage of expansion, with the No. 2164 Hospital joining in the 1958 merger and the No. 103 Hospital in 1978, so hospital-based teaching has been a constant through both its military and civilian phases.附属医院在每一次扩张阶段都被纳入，1958 年合并时加入第二一六四医院，1978 年加入第一〇三医院，因此医院教学在军校与地方两个时期都是一以贯之的。

Campus

• The main campus stands at 1023-1063 Shaitai South Road in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, on the lower slopes of Baiyun Mountain in the north of the city.主校区位于广州市白云区沙太南路 1023 至 1063 号，坐落在城市北部白云山的山麓地带。
• The main campus and its south campus together cover nearly one square kilometre, a footprint large for a single-discipline medical university in central Guangzhou.主校区与南校区合计占地近一平方公里，对于一所位于广州市区的单科性医科大学而言，这一规模相当可观。
• Its grounds are known for rows of trees and flowers that bloom through the year, a contrast with the dense commercial districts that surround much of Guangzhou.校园以成行绿树与四季开放的花木著称，与广州大部分地区密集的商业街区形成对照。
• A second campus in Shunde, Foshan, extends the university into the Pearl River Delta manufacturing belt west of Guangzhou.位于佛山顺德的第二校区把学校延伸到广州以西的珠江三角洲制造业地带。
• The university occupied the former Jinan University campus at Shipai from 1970 until the Qilinkang site was approved in 1978, and that period shaped its urban identity.1970 年至 1978 年麒麟岗新址获批之前，学校一直使用石牌原暨南大学校舍，这段经历塑造了它的城市身份。
• The Qilinkang site in the northeastern suburbs was approved in April 1978 and became the basis of the present main campus, replacing buildings that had to be returned.位于东北郊的麒麟岗校址于 1978 年 4 月获批，成为今日主校区的基础，替代了必须归还的石牌校舍。
• Thirteen directly affiliated hospitals are distributed across Guangzhou and its hinterland, so clinical teaching is not confined to a single hospital block.十三所直属附属医院分布在广州及其周边地区，因此临床教学并不局限于单一医院街区。
• Baiyun Mountain gives the campus a recreational hinterland of forest paths and scenic areas within walking distance of the teaching buildings.白云山为校园提供了步行可达的森林步道与风景区，成为教学大楼之外的一片休闲腹地。
• The Guangzhou campus sits inside a subtropical monsoon climate, with hot humid summers and mild winters that allow the gardens to stay green in every month.广州校区处于亚热带季风气候之中，夏季炎热潮湿、冬季温和，使校园花园四季常绿。

Reputation

• Southern Medical University is placed in the 201-300 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the same band as several much larger Chinese comprehensive universities.南方医科大学在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中位列第 201 至 300 名区间，与中国多所规模更大的综合性大学同处一档。
• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it is tied 284th, its strongest showing among the four major global tables.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校并列第 284 位，这是它在四大全球榜单中的最好表现。
• U.S. News places it 494th in the 2026-2027 global universities ranking, a placing driven by clinical and biomedical citation output.《美国新闻与世界报道》在 2026 至 2027 年度全球大学排名中把它列为第 494 位，这一名次主要由临床与生物医学的引用产出推动。
• The university does not appear in the 2027 QS World University Rankings, which admits a narrower set of Chinese institutions than the Shanghai and Times tables.该校未进入 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名，该榜单收录的中国高校范围比软科与泰晤士榜单更窄。
• Its domestic standing is strongest in medicine: third among Chinese medical universities in the 2025 ShanghaiRanking subject table, behind only the two national leaders in the field.该校的国内地位在医学领域最为突出：2025 年软科中国医药类大学排名第三，仅次于该领域的两所全国领头院校。
• The university's research record includes national awards in natural science, technological invention and scientific progress, a portfolio built largely around clinical medicine and trauma care.该校的科研记录包括国家自然科学奖、国家技术发明奖与国家科学技术进步奖，成果组合主要围绕临床医学与创伤救治。
• Recognition by the World Health Organization and the Medical Council of India gives its medical degree standing among international regulators, which matters for its overseas student recruitment.世界卫生组织与印度医学委员会的认可赋予其医学学位国际监管层面的地位，这对其海外招生十分重要。
• Its military lineage is part of its reputation: the university was a PLA institution for more than fifty years and still organises clinical training with a discipline associated with military medicine.军校血脉是其声誉的一部分：该校作为解放军院校的历史超过五十年，其临床训练至今保留着与军事医学相关的纪律传统。
• The gap between third place among Chinese medical universities in 2025 and a 201-300 band in the 2026 Shanghai global table reflects the difference between a disciplinary ranking and a comprehensive one.2025 年在中国医药类大学中排名第三、而在 2026 年软科全球主榜中处于 201 至 300 名区间，这一落差反映出学科榜与综合榜评价口径的不同。
• The university's reputation was tested in May 2024 when it disciplined the teacher Yu Li for arriving 29 minutes late after treating a critically ill child, a case that drew national criticism of its management.2024 年 5 月，该校因教师俞莉抢救危重患儿而迟到 29 分钟对其作出处分，此事引发全国对其管理方式的批评，也使学校声誉受到考验。

Student life

• Student life is organised around clinical training, with cohorts moving through Nanfang, Zhujiang and the other affiliated hospitals rather than spending their later years on a single campus.学生生活围绕临床训练展开，各届学生要在南方医院、珠江医院及其他附属医院之间轮转，而非在单一校园度过高年级。
• The eight-year clinical medicine students form a small, long-lived cohort that shares basic-science classes before dispersing into hospital departments for doctoral-level training.八年制临床医学学生构成一个小规模、长期共处的班级，先共同修读基础医学课程，再分散到各医院科室接受博士阶段训练。
• International students on the English-medium clinical track study Mandarin alongside medicine, and they live and take classes with a separate language-support structure.英语授课临床轨道的留学生在学医的同时学习汉语，并配有独立的语言支持体系。
• The Guangzhou campus gardens and the nearby Baiyun Mountain paths give students outdoor space in a city where most districts are built up.广州校区的花园与邻近的白云山步道，为学生在一座高度建成化的城市中提供了户外空间。
• Because the university runs campuses in Guangzhou and Shunde, some cohorts commute between the provincial capital and Foshan during their studies.由于学校在广州与顺德两地设校区，部分年级在学习期间需要在省会与佛山之间往返。
• The May 2024 case of Yu Li, a clinical teacher disciplined after treating a dying child, became a campus-wide talking point about how hospital duty and classroom attendance should be balanced.2024 年 5 月，临床教师俞莉因抢救病危患儿而受处分一事，成为全校讨论医院职责与课堂出勤应如何平衡的焦点。
• Student activities draw on the university's hospital network, with volunteer and health-education work carried out through the affiliated hospitals rather than through a separate campus volunteering office.学生活动依托学校的医院网络开展，志愿服务与健康教育多通过附属医院组织，而非另设校园志愿服务中心。
• Since 1978 the university has enrolled students from across China, so a largely Guangdong intake is mixed with students from northern and central provinces drawn by its clinical hospitals.自 1978 年起该校面向全国招生，因此以广东生源为主的学生群体中，也混有被其临床医院吸引而来的北方与中部省份学生。

Notable people

• Li Ziping, a deputy minister of the Northeast Military Region health department, was the first president of the school in 1951 and organised its founding in Qiqihar.李资平曾任东北军区卫生部副部长，1951 年出任学校首任校长，在齐齐哈尔主持了创校工作。
• Wang Yizhi led the school through its renaming as the No. 11 Army Medical School and Qiqihar Medical College, and also served as commissioner of Nenjiang Prefecture.王义之先后执掌第十一军医学校与齐齐哈尔医学院，并曾兼任嫩江专署专员。
• Ruan Hanqing was president of the PLA Qiqihar Medical College and then of the PLA Military Medical College until September 1970, covering the Changsha relocation.阮汉清曾任解放军齐齐哈尔医学院院长与解放军军医学院院长，任职至 1970 年 9 月，经历了学校迁往长沙的过程。
• Zhao Yunhong was president from September 1970 to June 1975 and then led the First Military Medical University from July 1975 to June 1990, the longest tenure in its history.赵云宏自 1970 年 9 月至 1975 年 6 月任院长，随后于 1975 年 7 月至 1990 年 6 月任第一军医大学校长，是该校历史上任期最长的负责人。
• Li Kang, a major general, presided over the First Military Medical University from 1998 to June 2004, the final military period before the transfer to Guangdong.少将李康于 1998 年至 2004 年 6 月执掌第一军医大学，这是移交广东省之前的最后一段军校时期。
• Zheng Muming, also a major general, led the university through its 2004 handover and became the first president of Southern Medical University, serving until October 2011.同为少将的郑木明主持了 2004 年的移交工作，并成为南方医科大学首任校长，任职至 2011 年 10 月。
• Chen Minsheng was president from October 2011 to April 2013 and later party secretary from 2012 to 2023, when he was placed under investigation.陈敏生于 2011 年 10 月至 2013 年 4 月任校长，2012 年至 2023 年任党委书记，后接受调查。
• Yu Yanhong, a gynaecologist, was president from April 2013 to January 2018 and later moved into national health administration in Beijing.妇科医生余艳红于 2013 年 4 月至 2018 年 1 月任校长，此后赴京进入国家卫生行政系统任职。
• Li Mengfeng, a virologist, served as president from May 2019 to June 2025, leading the university through the COVID-19 period and its ranking rise.病毒学家黎孟枫于 2019 年 5 月至 2025 年 6 月任校长，带领学校度过新冠疫情时期并实现排名上升。
• Ma Li, who took office in June 2025, is the university's current president and the second woman to hold the post after Yu Yanhong.马骊于 2025 年 6 月就任校长，是继余艳红之后该校第二位女性校长。