Ningxia Medical College, initially founded in 1958, was turned into the Medical Dept. of Ningxia University established in 1962 via the combination of former Ningxia Agriculture College, Ningxia Normal College and the medical college. However, in the year of 1972, it resumed its college status with Shanghai Railway Medical College moved to Yinchuan in the same year. In addition, in 2002, Ningxia Health School and Ningxia Nursing School got merged into the College.

At present, the college has the student recruitments over 25 prov-inces (Autonomous Regions and the Municipalities directly controlled by the central government) with 8000 full-time students at the school, including 545 postgraduates (6.8% of the total), and 3539 undergraduates ( including 81 overseas students). Up to now, the col-lege has the total value of fixed assets up to 833 million Yuan, with the campus coverage up to 647.9 thousand square meters. In Sept. 2007, After over two years’ construction with the construction areas in both I and II phases of 180,000 square meters,? the new school campus formally was put into operation. By Apr. 2008, The College had completed its total removal and the adjustment of its internal structures.

The college follows the college and school two-leveled management system. And there are 16 Party and administrative organs, 7 schools (Basic Medical Science School, Clinical Medical School, Traditional Chinese Medicine School, Public Health School, Nursing School, High Vocational Education School and Adult Education School), 6 Department or Divisions (Humanities & Socialism Science Division, Technical Secondary Education Division, Stomatololgy Dept. Pharmacy Dept. Medical Exam Dept and Postgraduate Division), 4 teaching assistant organs (Modern Educational Technology Center, Library, Medical Science & Technology Research Cen-ter and Lab & Apparatus Management Center) as well.

Up to now, there are 628 full-time teachers in the college, including 118 professors, 234 associate professors and the other 64 with higher academic titles. Besides, among the teaching staff, there are 316 with Master’s Degree (50.32% of the total), 54 with Doc-torial Degree (8.6% of the total). The college has attached a great impor-tance to the training and promotion of academic leaders and excellent and promising young, key teachers and in the echelon development of the teaching staff. 40 professionals of the teachers have been awarded with State-leveled special subsidies, 6 with provincial-leveled special subsidies; 6 have been selected as the candidates for “ Hundred, thousand and ten thousand” three-leveled talents, two has nominated as the mid-aged and young experts with outstanding contribu-tion, and 22 as the talented professional in “313” project of our Autonomous Region.

The college confers the Bachelors’ Degree to the students in medicine, administration and Science with 25 specialties and professional directions, forming a characteristic education system with the medical specialties as the main, the co-existence of both Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine as well as? the coordinative develop-ment of multi-specialties.

The college offers 4 levels of teaching courses namely the postgraduates, undergraduates, high and secondary vocational training courses, with the highest employment rate among the graduates in Ningxia. It also has 5 provincial-leveled key curriculum, 19 fine courses; 1 specialty with the national characteristic advantage; and 5 experimental teaching demonstration centers of the Region.

At present, There are 9 key disciplines in the school (one ministry-leveled and 8 province-leveled); 2 province-leveled key labs, Reproductive Genetics Lab and Cranial Diseases Lab. And some obvious progresses have been achieved in the researches? in spinal TB, Echinococcosis, as well as the reproductive genetics and cranial diseases. The school also has also performed Hui Ethnic Medical Education, established Hui Ethnic Medical Research Institute, trying to have the Hui ethnic medical education and research as one of the specific characters in its medical education.

The school started its postgraduate education work as early as in the year of 1978, up to now, it offers the Master Degree conferring right in 1 1st grade discipline ( Clinical medicine), 28 2nd grade disciplines, with 27 batches of graduates. It, right now, has 545 graduate students in school and has the accumulative enrollment number of 829.

The school now has one direct Affiliated Hospital and 4 indirect Affiliated Hospitals, 8 teaching hospitals; and 66 basis for field practices. With the hospital beds over 1900, the direct Affiliated hospital has become a general multi-functioned 3-grade, 1st class hospital? in medical treatment, teaching, scientific research and high-rank cadres’ care, etc. It has the annual outpatient number up to over 600 thousand, the inpatient number to 39 thousand and the operation number to 16 thousand.? Due to its high professional level and high quality services, it is also of a great attraction to the patients in the nearby regions and areas of Nei Monggu, Gansu and Shanxi provinces. And in the year of 1995, it was listed as one of the 500 large-scaled hospitals of our nation.