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Hebei Medical University

Hebei Medical University

Hebei Medical University is a key university in Hebei Province. It was originally named Beiyang Medical School. It was founded in Tianjin in 1894 by Li Hongzhang, the Governor-General of Zhili and Minister of Beiyang. It is the first government-run western medical school in modern China. After the Revolution of 1911, on January 19, 1912, the Ministry of Education of the National Government issued the "General Order on the Provisional Measures for General Education", and Beiyang Medical School was changed to Beiyang Medical School. On October 22, 1912, the Ministry of Education of the National Government issued the "Specialized School Order" No. 16, according to which in September 1913 (the second year of the Republic of China), Beiyang Medical School was renamed Zhili Public Medical Specialized School and began to recruit undergraduate students. In 1915, the school moved to Baoding. On July 7, 1937, the Anti-Japanese War broke out, and the school was forced to close. In January 1946, the school resumed enrollment. In April 1949, it was renamed Hebei Medical College. In 1958, the school moved from Baoding to Shijiazhuang. In 1995, the former Hebei Medical College, Hebei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Shijiazhuang Medical College merged into Hebei Medical University. In 2013, Hebei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine resumed its independent system. In 2016, the school became a university jointly built by the Ministry of Education, the National Health Commission, and the People's Government of Hebei Province. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", the school set the development goal of "building a high-level medical university with distinctive characteristics".

The school adheres to the fine school spirit of "respecting morality, dedication, rigor, and innovation". After 127 years, especially the construction and development in the past 40 years of reform and opening up, it has become a comprehensive medical university integrating teaching, scientific research, and medical care. In 2005, the school proposed the school motto of "Mingde erudition, action, wisdom and perfection". In 2015, the school established the school-running philosophy of "student-oriented and teacher-first". At present, the school has two campuses, five directly affiliated hospitals, 19 secondary colleges (departments), 28 undergraduate majors, including 4 national specialty majors and 4 provincial specialty majors. 14 majors were selected as national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, and 10 majors were selected as provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites. There are 20,980 full-time students, including 4,542 doctoral and master students, and 421 international students.

The school has established 4 postdoctoral research stations for basic medicine, clinical medicine, integrated Chinese and Western medicine, and biology. It has 6 first-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees and 47 second-level disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees; it has 9 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees and 51 second-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees; there is 1 doctoral professional degree authorization category and 4 master's professional degree authorization categories. The degree authorization disciplines have covered biology, basic medicine, clinical medicine, public health and preventive medicine, integrated Chinese and Western medicine, and pharmacy. The school has a complete medical education system for training bachelors, masters and doctors.

The school system has more than 17,000 faculty and staff (including directly affiliated hospitals), including 1,180 senior professional and technical personnel, 1,813 associate senior professional and technical personnel, 363 doctoral supervisors, and 2,450 master's supervisors. In this team, there are a group of experts and professors with profound knowledge and high reputation at home and abroad, including 4 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 winner of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 1 National Outstanding Professional and Technical Talent, 6 candidates of the National Hundred Thousand Talents Project, 1 winner of the Teaching Master Award of the National Special Support Program for High-level Talents ("Ten Thousand Talents Program"), 49 experts enjoying special government allowances from the State Council, 1 national supervisor, 5 national model (excellent) teachers, 1 young and middle-aged scientific and technological innovation leader in the Ministry of Science and Technology's Innovative Talent Promotion Program, 3 Yanzhao Scholars, 9 high-end talents in Hebei Province, 53 provincial excellent experts, 80 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions, 17 teaching masters of Hebei Province's colleges and universities, 2 candidates of the Hebei Province Hundred Talents Program, 14 first-level candidates of the "Three Three Three Talents Project", and 28 model (excellent) teachers in Hebei Province.

The school has 5 directly affiliated hospitals, namely the First Hospital, the Second Hospital, the Third Hospital, the Fourth Hospital and the Stomatological Hospital of Hebei Medical University, of which 4 are Grade 3A comprehensive hospitals and 1 is a Grade 3 specialized hospital, with 9,252 beds. According to the training objectives of various majors in the school, the school has built a total of 52 off-campus internship and training bases to undertake the teaching tasks of internships and training for various undergraduate majors in the school.

The school is not only a medical education and medical treatment center in Hebei Province, but also a medical research center in Hebei Province. There are 1 national key discipline (Basics of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine), 1 national key cultivation discipline (Forensic Medicine), 1 key discipline of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Basics of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine), 16 national key clinical specialties, 4 "Double First-Class" construction disciplines in Hebei Province, 1 discipline supported by the National Key Discipline Cultivation Project in Hebei Province, 4 strong and characteristic disciplines in Hebei Province, 12 key disciplines in Hebei Province, 2 key laboratories co-built by the province and the ministry (Ministry of Education), 3 provincial collaborative innovation centers, 1 provincial new think tank, 1 provincial philosophy and social science research base, 2 key research bases of humanities and social sciences of the Provincial Department of Education, 31 provincial key laboratories, research rooms, and engineering centers, and 4 provincial traditional Chinese medicine research rooms. In addition, the school has also hosted and edited and published 8 national and provincial academic journals.

In recent years, the school has continuously strengthened international exchanges and cooperation and has become an important window for Hebei Province's foreign cultural and academic exchanges. It has established close cooperative relations with 33 medical schools and scientific research institutions in 12 countries including Japan, South Korea, the United States, Belgium, Russia, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. It has hired more than 100 foreign experts to serve as honorary positions in the school, and there are 421 international students studying at the school.

(Data as of April 30, 2021)

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