Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine was founded in 1958 and was formerly known as Tianjin College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In the 63 years since its establishment, the school has undergone several changes and continued to accumulate and develop in inheritance and innovation. In 1969, it moved to Hebei New Medical University; in 1978, it was restored and rebuilt into Tianjin College of Traditional Chinese Medicine; in 1992, it was named the International College of Traditional Chinese Medicine; in 2006, it was renamed Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; in 2017, it was selected into the list of universities for the construction of "world-class disciplines"; in 2020, it became a university jointly built by the Ministry of Education, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the Tianjin Municipal People's Government. The school moved to the Tuanbo campus in 2018. The campus covers an area of ​​more than 2,000 acres and has a construction area of ​​more than 600,000 square meters. The campus features lake landscape, Chinese medicinal vegetation, and Chinese medicine culture. It has a Chinese medicinal botanical garden with diverse categories and both ornamental and teaching purposes, an advanced Chinese medicine science and technology park, and an international Chinese medicine education center with international influence.

The school currently has 11,379 full-time undergraduates, 3,768 graduate students, and 540 international students. The school (including the affiliated hospital) currently has 3,879 faculty and staff, including 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (one of whom is a part-time employee), 1 national master of Chinese medicine, 3 national famous Chinese medicine practitioners, and 1 winner of the Teaching Master Award. It has a group of high-level talents such as the leading talents of the National "Ten Thousand Talents Plan", the National "Ten Thousand Talents Plan" teaching masters, the "Yangtze River Scholars Award Program" distinguished professors, the "National Outstanding Youth Science Fund" winners, the national model teachers, and the national Chinese medicine colleges and universities teaching masters. There are currently 3 innovation teams of the Ministry of Education, 2 innovation teams of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 1 national multidisciplinary cross-innovation team of Chinese medicine, and 1 inheritance innovation team.

The school has 4 directly affiliated hospitals. The building area is about 564,000 square meters, with 4,620 beds. Among them, the First Affiliated Hospital has 30 national key disciplines (specialties), is one of the top 100 hospitals in China, the National Clinical Medicine Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncture, the National Regional Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis and Treatment Center (6 specialties), the National Traditional Chinese Medicine Inheritance and Innovation Project Unit, the National Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Research Base for Stroke and Coronary Heart Disease, the National Traditional Chinese Medicine Epidemic Prevention and Control Team and Epidemic Prevention and Control Base, the National Traditional Chinese Medicine Emergency Medical Rescue Team and Emergency Medical Rescue Base, the National Health Commission Traditional Chinese Medicine Resident Doctor Standardized Training Base, the National Traditional Chinese Medicine Resident Doctor Standardized Training Key Professional Base, and the National Traditional Chinese Medicine High-level Talent Training Comprehensive Training Base. The Second Affiliated Hospital has 18 national key disciplines (specialties), 1 National Central Administration Level 3 Laboratory, is a national traditional Chinese medicine inheritance and innovation project unit, and a national people's assured demonstration hospital. The Fourth Affiliated Hospital is a hospital jointly built by the People's Government of the Binhai New Area and Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, with 2 national key disciplines (specialties). The Affiliated Baokang Hospital is a medical insurance designated hospital featuring experts, specialists, special diseases, and special medicines. The school also has 6 non-affiliated hospitals, 32 teaching hospitals, 2 internship hospitals, and 5 community health practice bases.

The school has 16 colleges (departments) and 6 disciplines, with Chinese medicine as the main body, medicine, science, literature, management, engineering, and education in a coordinated development, with a total of 31 undergraduate majors, including 8 national first-class undergraduate major construction points, 3 national characteristic majors, and 19 municipal key construction majors. It has a national first-class discipline of Chinese medicine, 2 national key disciplines of Chinese internal medicine and acupuncture and massage, 23 key disciplines of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 9 Tianjin "13th Five-Year Plan" key disciplines, 2 Tianjin first-class disciplines, and 3 advantageous and characteristic discipline groups. It has three postdoctoral research stations in Chinese medicine, Chinese pharmacy, and integrated Chinese and Western medicine, three first-level doctoral degree authorization points in Chinese medicine, Chinese pharmacy, and integrated Chinese and Western medicine, 16 second-level doctoral degree authorization points, 1 doctoral professional degree authorization point in Chinese medicine, 6 first-level master's degree authorization points, 26 second-level master's degree authorization points, and 5 master's professional degree authorization points. In the fourth round of subject evaluation by the Ministry of Education, Chinese pharmacy was A-, Chinese medicine and integrated Chinese and Western medicine were B+; pharmacology and toxicology, and clinical medicine entered the top 1% of ESI.

The school focuses on talent training. With the fundamental purpose of serving the strategy of strengthening education and healthy China, and with the development strategy of "refining medicine, strengthening pharmacy, solidifying health-related majors, and expanding social services", it conscientiously implements the "study-based", actively promotes the "four returns", and takes the "six excellences and one top" plan 2.0 as a guide to strive to create a new situation of high-quality undergraduate education. The school has 1 special prize, 3 first prizes, and 2 second prizes in the national teaching achievement award; 1 special prize in the national excellent textbook (higher education category); 1 national teaching team; 7 national first-class courses, 6 national quality resource sharing courses, 1 national bilingual teaching demonstration course, 1 national ideological and political demonstration course, 1 national ideological and political teaching teacher, and 1 teaching team; 3 pilot projects for the reform of the excellent doctor (TCM) education and training program, 2 "new engineering" research and practice projects, 1 base for the basic discipline top student training program 2.0, 1 national professional comprehensive reform pilot project, 2 national talent training model innovation experimental areas, 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national virtual simulation experimental teaching center, 2 national virtual simulation experimental projects, 1 national college student off-campus practice education base, and won 2 gold medals in the professional track of the national college student medical technology skills competition.

The school takes scientific research as its advantage. Focusing on building a world power in science and technology and achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, we adhere to the "four orientations", give full play to the leading and driving role of scientific and technological innovation, and strengthen the integration of the innovation chain and industrial chain. It now has a number of national and provincial and ministerial high-level scientific research and innovation platforms, including the National Research Center for Clinical Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Acupuncture), the National Key Laboratory of Component Chinese Medicine, the National International Joint Research Center-China-Italy Joint Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Ministry of Science and Technology's Innovative Talent Promotion Plan Innovative Talent Training Demonstration Base, the National and Local Co-construction Modern Chinese Medicine Innovation Center, the Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Prescriptions, the Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center for Modern Chinese Medicine Discovery and Preparation Technology, the Modern Chinese Medicine Provincial and Ministerial Co-construction Collaborative Innovation Center, and the State Drug Administration's Key Laboratory of Evidence-Based Evaluation of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In the past three years, more than 500 vertical scientific research projects have been added, with a funding of more than 360 million yuan. In recent years, a number of landmark achievements have been achieved, including 2 first prizes and 11 second prizes in the National Science and Technology Progress Award; 1 provincial and ministerial science and technology major achievement award, 2 special prizes for scientific and technological progress, and 9 first prizes. The National Key Laboratory of Component Chinese Medicine was awarded the "National Advanced Collective in Fighting the New Coronary Pneumonia Epidemic" and has made important contributions to the formation of characteristic treatment plans for traditional Chinese medicine. Xuanfei Baidu Granules were successfully developed and included in the "Three Medicines and Three Prescriptions" recommended by the state. The new drug research and development was completed and successfully transformed.

The school features foreign education in traditional Chinese medicine. The school's international education, exchanges and cooperation began in the 1980s. As the chairman unit of the Education Steering Committee of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, the "World Undergraduate (Pre-CMD) Education Standards for Chinese Medicine" organized and formulated has been officially released by the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, becoming the world's first international standard for Chinese medicine education. The "World Chinese Medicine Core Courses" and "World Chinese Medicine Core Courses Syllabus" were formulated, and the "World Chinese Medicine Core Courses Textbooks" were compiled, which clarified the connotation of the world Chinese medicine major and standardized the core course teaching content. The school is the "Education Aid Base" of the Ministry of Education, the "China-ASEAN Education and Training Center" of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the "International Cooperation Base for Chinese Medicine" of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the "First Batch of Special Construction Units for International Cooperation in Chinese Medicine", and the World Federation of Chinese Medicine "Belt and Road" Chinese Medicine Education Teacher Training Base (Tianjin). Cooperating with the China-Foreign Cultural Exchange Center of the Ministry of Education to build the "Chinese and Foreign Cultural Exchange Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine", the school was selected as a cooperative institution for the preparation of the "2020 Chinese and Foreign Cultural Exchange Talent Training Base in the Field of Intelligent Manufacturing" by the China-Foreign Cultural Exchange Center of the Ministry of Education, and was selected as the first batch of "National Traditional Chinese Medicine Service Export Base" by the Ministry of Commerce and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It won the "2019 Excellent China-ASEAN Education and Training Center" award, explored the new model of "Internet + Traditional Chinese Medicine" service trade, and was successfully selected as a demonstration case of business innovation at the 2020 China International Fair for Trade in Services. The school is the only traditional Chinese medicine school in the "China-Africa University 20+20 Cooperation Plan" project of the Ministry of Education. In 2008, the school established the world's first Confucius Classroom for Traditional Chinese Medicine-the Confucius Classroom of Kobe Toyo Medical College in Japan, and in 2016, it established the first Confucius Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Thailand-the Confucius Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Huaqiao Chongsheng University in Thailand. The school has established friendly and cooperative relations with more than 40 countries and regions in the world. The Sino-foreign cooperative education project for undergraduate clinical pharmacy jointly organized with the University of Nottingham in the UK was nominated for the best international cooperation project of the "Times Higher Education Award in the UK". The international education cooperation between the two schools was listed as one of the national strategic cooperation in the health field between China and the UK.

The school holds high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, takes Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its guide, adheres to the socialist direction of running schools, adheres to the overall leadership of the Party, fully implements the Party's education policy, adheres to serving socialist modernization and serving the people, adheres to combining with production labor and social practice, and cultivates socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor. The school adheres to the school motto of "advancing morality and studying, inheriting innovation", takes "inheritance and innovation synergy, scientific research and service, quality for connotation, and comprehensive and coordinated development" as its development policy, and takes "making medicine refined, strengthening pharmacy, solidifying health-related majors, and expanding social services" as its development strategy, and strives to build a world-class university of traditional Chinese medicine with Chinese characteristics.