Established in 1954, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine (NJUCM) is one of the earliest established universities of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China, and is a university jointly constructed by the People’s Government of Jiangsu Province and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People’s Republic of China. The university was included in the national “Double First-Class University Plan”and the Jiangsu High-Level Construction University Plan in 2017, and became a“Double First-Class University”jointly constructed by the national Ministry of Education and the Jiangsu Province in 2018. Over the last 64 years, NJUCM has trained the first wave of teachers, created the first edition of textbooks and teaching syllabus, produced the earliest academicians in TCM field, made fundamental contribution to the establishment and promotion of higher education mode for P. R. China, therefore has been renowned as “the cradle of China’s higher education in Chinese Medicine”.
Located in the historic city Nanjing, NJUCM has Xianlin and Hanzhongmen campuses. Currently, it has nearly 20,000 enrolled students of various kinds on campus. The university offers 33 undergraduate programs involving 6 branches of academic disciplines including medicine, management, science, engineering, economics and humanities, initially forming the educational pattern that centers on Chinese medicine while combining Chinese and Western medicines and developing multiple disciplines as its support.
The university is WHO Collaborating Center for Traditional Medicine designated by the World Health Organization, and is the International Acupuncture Training Center approved by the Ministry of Health, and is one of the first advanced Chinese Medicine institutions authorized by the Ministry of Education to enroll international students as well as students from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. In 1993, NJUCM pioneered the practice of cooperating with RMIT University, Australia to facilitate the Bachelor program of Chinese Medicine. NJUCM makes every effort to promote the understanding of Chinese Medicine in foreign countries with special focus in developing Confucius Institute and overseas Chinese Medicine Centers. A leading Chinese Medicine Confucius Institute was established by NJUCM in collaboration with RMIT University, Australia on June 20, 2010. H.E Mr. Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech, speaking highly of the educational achievements of NJUCM. In February, 2019, NJUCM collaborated with National University of Ireland (Galway) to jointly build a Confucius Institute of Chinese and Regenerative Medicine, which is a positive exploration in implementing H.E. Mr. Xi Jinping’s important instruction on promoting the better integration of traditional and modern medicine with openness and tolerance, and in carrying forward the overseas development of Chinese medicine in the new era. NJUCM currently has extensive communication and contact with over 90 countries and regions worldwide. It has established 8 overseas Chinese Medicine Centers in succession respectively in Oceania, Europe and America.
NJUCM adheres to the educational philosophy of “Achieving utmost proficiency in Chinese and western medicine with utmost sincerity”, and continues to improve its educational programs in the attempt to enhance the level of internationalization. NJUCM has been the first Chinese medicine higher education institution to pass the quality evaluation in education for overseas students. It has established university exchanges at multiple levels with a number of globally esteemed universities including The University of Toronto, The University of West Australia, etc., and has set up joint educational programs and student exchanges with The University of Ulster, UK. It collaborates with Griffith University, Australia in the articulation program of Bachelor degree in biomolecular pharmacy, with Swinburne University of Technology in the articulation program of Bachelor degree of public administration, with RMIT University in the articulation program of Bachelor degree in food quality and safety. The three articulation programs are all approved by the National Ministry of Education, and have been evaluated as high-level and exemplary articulation programs with foreign universities by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education.
NJUCM will further push forward its international collaboration in its the educational pattern of centering on Chinese medicine while combining Chinese and Western medicines and developing multiple disciplines as its support. It will endeavor to achieve the peak of disciplinary development, and continue the approach of being open and collaborative, striving to build itself as a leading Chinese medicine university with strength in its discipline and educational programs.
