Ningxia Medical University

The predecessor of Ningxia Medical University was Ningxia Medical College established in 1958. In 1962, it was renamed Ningxia University School of Medicine. In 1972, Shanghai Railway Medical College moved to Yinchuan and merged with Ningxia University School of Medicine to rebuild Ningxia Medical College. In 2002, Ningxia Health School and Ningxia Nursing School were merged into Ningxia Medical College. In August 2008, the school was renamed Ningxia Medical University. In 2014, the School of Medicine of Ningxia Normal University was merged into Ningxia Medical University. So far, the school has become the only medical higher education institution in Ningxia.

The school is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the National Health Commission, and the People's Government of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. There are more than 6,800 faculty and medical staff, including 1,042 full-time teachers. There are 113 doctoral supervisors and 887 master's supervisors (including 113 doctoral supervisors). There are 10,919 full-time students (including doctoral, master's, undergraduate, junior college, and international students). There are two campuses, Yanhu and Shuangyi, covering a total area of ​​1,700 acres, with 14 teaching institutions, 13 auxiliary teaching and research institutions, 14 non-affiliated hospitals, and 52 teaching practice hospitals.

The school has four disciplines, namely medicine, science, management and engineering, and 20 undergraduate majors, including 5 national first-class majors in clinical medicine, medical laboratory technology, pharmacy, preventive medicine, and nursing, 5 national characteristic majors, 9 autonomous region-level characteristic and advantageous majors, and 2 national first-class courses. There are 2 national teaching teams and 11 autonomous region-level teaching teams. There are 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers and 9 autonomous region experimental teaching demonstration centers.

The school has 5 doctoral degree awarding points and 15 master's degree awarding points. There are 8 key disciplines of TCM of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 5 key disciplines at the autonomous region level, 4 advantageous and characteristic disciplines at the autonomous region level, 7 first-class disciplines in the autonomous region, clinical medicine and pharmacology and toxicology are among the top 1% in the world of ESI, there is 1 national key laboratory cultivation base jointly built by the Ministry of Science and Technology, 3 key laboratories of ministries (commissions), 2 collaborative innovation centers jointly built by the Ministry of Education, 9 key laboratories at the autonomous region level, 3 engineering technology centers at the autonomous region level, 10 clinical medicine research centers at the autonomous region level, and 13 research institutes at the autonomous region level.

The school adheres to the school-running philosophy of "open schooling, connotation development, strengthening characteristics, and focusing on innovation" and the school motto of "cultivating virtue and helping people, and studying hard and refining skills", and strives for first-class. At present, it has developed into a higher medical school with coordinated scale, structure, quality and efficiency, and has a certain influence and reputation among similar colleges and universities in the country. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, we will always adhere to the development path of socialist education with Chinese characteristics, adhere to the new development concept, adhere to high-quality development, focus on the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor, and strive to build a first-class, domestically renowned, internationally influential and distinctive teaching and research university in the west.

(Data as of March 21, 2022)