Tongji Medical University is one of the medical institution of higher learning under Ministry of Public Health. It was initially founded by Doctor Bolon of the German nationality in Shanghai in 1907 as a German Medical School. In 1927, it was renamed the Medical College of National Tongji University.

Our university now has one academician of the Chinese Academy of Science, more than 1,400 full and associate professors and over 1,800 lecturers. The entire staff numbers above 7,500. Doctorate degrees can be conferred in 31 subjects and specialities, with 116 tutors for doctoral candidates, and there 51 subjects and specialities for which Master's degrees can be granted with over 540 tutors for graduate students. Post-doctoral mobile stations have been set up in basic medicine, in public health, in preventive medicine and in clinical medicine. There are nearly 900 doctoral and graduate students,more than 3,500 undergraduates, over 300 students in the 3-year system, 62 foreign students and above 2,000 students for adult education. More than 40,000 medical,pharmaceutical and health professionals have been fostered since the founding of the school. Since 1981, 282 medical doctors and 2,818 medical masters have been graduated from here.

Our university has had a friendly mutual relationship with Germany for a long time and is the key university in cultural exchanges between China and Germany. Over the past 10 years of reform and opening, relationships of inter-university project cooperation have been formed one after another with more than 40 universities,institutes,hospitals and companies in a series of such countries, areas and international organizations as Germany, US,Japan,Canada,Sultan, Malaysia,Hongkong, the WHO and the Children's Fund of the UN. Since 1979, 907 professionals have been appointed to study abroad, and 1,590 specialists have participated in scientific cooperation and exchange of short duration. Honorary doctorates, honorary professorships, guest professorships and honorary adviserships have been conferred on more than 70 foreign experts and scholars. Over 3,000 people have been invited and received as foreign visiting scholars for short periods of time and more than 300 foreign students have been trained for long duration.