Founded in 1956 the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine is one of the earliest established traditional Chinese medical institutions for higher learning in the People’s Republic of China. It is the only traditional Chinese medical higher learning institution that has a place in the “211 Project” for national development. The former Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and the former Beijing College of Acupuncture, Orthopedics and Traumatology merged into the new Beijing University of Chinese Medicine on July 31st, 2000, and became a priority university directly under the supervision of the Ministry of Education.

The university is among the first batch of traditional Chinese medical institutions to establish the Ph.D. program and the post-doctoral research stations. The 3 first-grade subjects, namely Chinese Medicine, Chinese Materia Medica, and Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, have the right to grant doctorate degree, so do all the second-grade subjects for master’s degree. The university now has 6 state-level subjects, 10 ministry- and bureau-level subjects, 3 Beijing municipality-level subjects, with 3 post-doctorate stations in Chinese Medicine. The key subjects of our university is in the leading position among the country’s traditional Chinese medical institutions.

In the 48 years since the founding of the university, it has trained more than 20,000 traditional Chinese medical professionals of different levels and 2,342 students from 87 countries and regions of the world. In recent years, the university has eventually established 40 cooperative projects with 22 countries and regions. It has cooperated with universities and academic groups of 12 countries and regions in running branch schools and clinics.