Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (LNUTCM) was established in 1958 as Liaoning College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a nd it is the only institution of higher education in traditional Chinese medicine in Liaoning Province. Approved by the Liaoning Provincial Committee, Liaoning TCM Training School (established in 1955) a nd Liaoning TCM Hospital (established in 1956) combined into the present Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (LNUTCM). In 2006, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the university was renamed “Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine”, the present name. In 2013, LNUTCM added the new title of “Liaoning Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine” with the approval of Liaoning Provincial Government. LNUTCM led to establish “Liaoning TCM Health Industry School-Enterprise Alliance” in 2017 a nd “Liaoning Institute of Technological Innovation in Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry” in 2019, a nd in 2020 LNUTCM set up the “Liaoning Provincial Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine”.

LNUTCM is one of the first universities to confer docto ral a nd master's degrees, one of the first universities qualified to receive fo reign students, a nd students from Hong Kong, Macao a nd Taiwan, a nd one of the first universities entrusted with the cultivation of the “Silk Road” Chinese government scholarship program . Also, LNUTCM is among the list of the first national TCM service expo rt bases, the first national TCM clinical research bases a nd ranks among National Basic Ability Construction Project of Western a nd Central China list a nd the first batch of national TCM literature search sub-center.

Party Building a nd Hono rs

Focusing on the fundamental task of “fostering mo ral integrity a nd educating people ”, the Party Committee of LNUTCM cultivates socialist builders a nd successo rs with comprehensive development in mo ral, intellectual, physical, social a nd aesthetic aspects Firmly grasping the direction of socialist education, LNUTCM conscientiously implements the Party’s education policy a nd closely combines the characteristics of TCM with Party building. Adhering to the spirit of “inheriting the essence, keeping the innovation” a nd the “student-centered a nd teacher-focused” concept, with the leadership of the Party, LNUTCM has established a nd enhanced its spirit marked by “phenomenon of good people of LNUTCM”.

LNUTCM has received many hono rs successively, such as the National Advanced Grassroots o rganization of CCP in the Campaign of Contending fo r Excellence, the National Advanced Collective of the Educational System in Discipline Inspection, the National Civilized Unit, the National May First Labo r Award, the National Advanced Collective in Health a nd Family Planning System, the Advanced Grassroots Party o rganization of Liaoning Province, the Advanced Collective of Liaoning Province, the May First Labo r Award of Liaoning Province, Pioneer Wo rkers of Liaoning Province, the Advanced Party Committee of Liaoning Educational System, the Advanced Collective of Liaoning Educational System, the Civilized Unit, Civilized Campus a nd Safe Campus of Liaoning Province as well as other awards.

University Scale a nd o rganization

LNUTCM covers a total area of mo re than 1000 mu, with the main campus located in Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning Province, a nd the branch campuses located in Dalian a nd Benxi respectively, fo rming the “one university , three campuses” pattern. The university has set up 6 disciplines, including medicine, science, engineering, management, literature a nd law, with 25 undergraduate majo rs a nd mo re than 25,000 students. LNUTCM boasts 17 colleges, 4 directly affiliated hospitals, 1 teaching department, 3 teaching experiment centers, 1 labo rato ry animal center, 1 academy of science, 3 research institutes, 3 libraries, a nd it is the only institution of higher education in Liaoning Province that cultivates talents in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Traditional Chinese Pharmacology, Acupuncture a nd Tuina, Chinese a nd Western Medicine in Clinical Practice, Senio r Nursing a nd other medical related fields.

Discipline a nd Degree Construction

All the main TCM-related disciplines in the university rank among the first-class disciplines in Liaoning province, with 1 national key discipline, 26 key TCM disciplines of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 4 first-class disciplines of higher education institutions in Liaoning Province, 21 key TCM disciplines in Liaoning Province.

LNUTCM has 3 post-docto ral research stations, 1 post-docto ral research wo rkstation a nd 1 post-docto ral innovation practice base of Liaoning Province. It has 3 first-level docto ral degree disciplines, 16 second-level docto ral degree programs, 4 first-level master degree discipline, 23 second-level master degree programs, 1 professional docto ral degree program a nd 3 professional master degree programs.

Educating a nd Teaching

LNUTCM has 1 state-level teaching team, 4 state-level feature majo r programs, 4 national first-class undergraduate majo r construction programs, 1 national specialty comprehensive refo rm pilot project, 1 state-level experimental zone fo r innovative talent cultivation, 2 pilot projects of Excellent Docto rs (TCM) Training Program of the Ministry of Education a nd State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1 national extracurricular education base fo r university students , 3 national excellent courses, 3 national excellent sharing courses, 3 national top-level courses  a nd 5 national awards fo r teaching achievements. Apart from all the above, the university has 6 provincial model centers fo r experimental teaching, 2 provincial virtual simulation centers fo r experimental teaching, 7 provincial teaching teams, 22 provincial excellent courses, 6 provincial excellent sharing courses,1 provincial excellent open course video of higher learning institutions of Liaoning province , 34 provincial first-class courses, 9 provincial practice education base fo r university students, 1 provincial innovation a nd practice base fo r university students, 4 provincial pilot specialty programs of comprehensive refo rms in the institutions of higher education, 7 provincial programs of  programs fo r initial top-class bachelo r education demonstration, a nd 5 first-class undergraduate majo r construction projects.

LNUTCM has made 54 provincial teaching achievements. The University is also the chief-edito r institution fo r 111 national, industrial a nd innovative teaching planned textbooks, of which 8 are provincial top-quality textbooks a nd 10 provincial excellent textbooks. LNUTCM is comprehensive training base fo r high-level talents of traditional Chinese medicine of the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine, the base fo r Practical Techniques Test a nd Examiner Training of National Physician Qualification Exam (the catego ry of TCM), a nd also the autho rized National SP Teaching Demonstrating Base, China SP community Liaoning Branch a nd it is the base fo r National TCM Practitioner Certification Examination. LNUTCM is also the national training base fo r TCM-Specialized English. LNUTCM has established its unique educational characteristics, namely, strong in cultivating practical, inherited, innovational a nd extroverted talents.

Talents Recruiting a nd Training

LNUTCM has recruited a nd cultivated 2 National TCM Masters, 2 National famous docto rs of TCM, 2 members of“Qi Huang Scholar”，1 member of the Discipline Assessment Group of the State Council，3 ca ndidates of the National Hundred, Thousa nd a nd Ten Thousa nd Talents Project,1 chief scientist of “973”Program, 1winner of “Qi Huang Inheritance a nd Development of Chinese Medicine” prize, 79 guidance teachers of national senio r TCM experts inheritance,  6 young a nd middle-aged experts awarded by National Health a nd Family Planning Commission fo r their outsta nding contributions, a nd 64 experts receiving special national government allowances. Among the faulty, there are 2 national outsta nding teachers, 2 National Outsta nding Teachers in higher education institutions of TCM, 1 National Outsta nding Teachers of “Two Courses” (Marxism theo ry course a nd ideological a nd political education course), only 100 teachers in institutions of higher learning nationwide, winning the title 55 National Outsta nding Talents of TCM (theo retical a nd Clinical), a nd 1 ranking in the list who play the leading role in “Party building a nd academic  research” of Ministry of Education.

LNUTCM has cultivated 1 alternate of academician of Liaoning Province, 2 members of “Pa ndeng scholars” of Liaoning Province, 2 leading talents of Liaoning Province, 11 outsta nding experts of Liaoning Province, 23 outsta nding teachers of Liaoning Province, 12 TCM masters of Liaoning Province, 98 famous TCM docto rs of Liaoning Province, a nd 31 young famous TCM docto rs of Liaoning Province. Up to now, 10 teachers have been selected as distinguished professo rs of “Advanced talent team construction program” in Liaoning fo r at least once, 17 teachers a nd 2 teams have been selected into the Liaoning Revitalization Talent Program, 2 teams have been selected into the Huang Danian-style teaching team in colleges a nd universities of Liaoning, 46 people have been selected into the hundred level group of the Provincial Hundred, Thousa nd a nd Ten Thousa nd Talents Project a nd 87 into the thousa nd level group.

Scientific Research

LNUTCM has 1 national a nd provincial joint engineering lab, 1 key labo rato ry sponso red by the Ministry of Education, 1 national-level TCM clinical research base, 3 national-level clinical pharmacology bases, 3 key research centers of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 11 Grade III research labo rato ries of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1 national popular science base, 1 base of transfo rmation of scientific a nd technological achievements of provincial association fo r science a nd technology,1 provincial key research base of, humanity a nd social science, 1 provincial collabo rative innovation center, 30 provincial key labs (engineering centers a nd engineering labs ), 1 majo r science a nd technology platfo rm fo r provincial institutions of higher learning, 2 provincial research centers fo r clinical medicine a nd 3 national drug clinical trial institutions. 

LNUTCM also hosts three academic journals of TCM. Chinese Archives of Traditional Chinese Medicine is in the list of Chinese co re journal a nd Chinese co re science a nd technology journal, ranking T1 in the classification catalogue of Chinese traditional Chinese science a nd technology periodicals. Liaoning Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine a nd Journal of Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is in the list of co re journal of science a nd technology in China, ranking T2 in the classification catalogue of traditional Chinese medicine science a nd technology journals.

International Cooperation a nd Education

LNUTCM is eligible to take international students with scholarship awarded by the Chinese government, Confucius Institute Scholarship as well as PHD scholarship awarded by Liaoning province It is the international cooperation base of TCM fo r Liaoning, China-Thaila nd a nd China-Central Eastern European countries, a nd the China - Thaila nd center of TCM. LNUTCM has established the Confucius Classroom of TCM in Slovakia Medical University. It has jointly operated education program in Nursing at the undergraduate level with Ara Institute of Canterbury, New Zeala nd. Focusing on Asia, facing Europe a nd the United States, expa nding to Africa a nd taking a global view, the University has carried out extensive international exchanges a nd cooperation, a nd has established cooperative relations with universities, medical institutions o r academic o rganizations in 35 countries a nd regions.

Medical Service

LNUTCM boats four affiliated hospitals, which are respectively titled Liaoning Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Liaoning Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Institute, Liaoning Proctology Hospital a nd Liaoning Integrated TCM a nd Western Medicine Hospital. LNUCTM has 11 national key clinical specialties of the Ministry of Health, 7 national TCM (specialized TCM) diagnosis a nd treatment regional centers, 21 key specialties of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine a nd 43 provincial key specialties. LNUTCM also has 7 indirectly affiliated hospitals a nd 88 bases fo r clinical teaching.

Campus Environment a nd Infrastructure

Focusing on the concept of “healthy, beautiful a nd modern campus”, LNUTCM continuously promotes the construction of humanistic campus, energy-saving campus, safe campus a nd smart campus, a nd provides service guarantee fo r high quality running university. All the campuses are equipped with advanced a nd efficient netwo rk infrastructure suppo rting IPV6, based on the safe a nd efficient cloud -computing data center, a nd has established a relatively complete netwo rk security protection system, which will constantly improve data info rmation service capacity, a nd facilitate the high quality development of the University.

Entering the new era, seizing the tide to seek development, LNUTCM has implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics fo r a New Era, committed to the direction of socialist education, a nd adhered to the fundamental task of “fostering mo ral integrity a nd educating people”. With the motto of “Strive fo r virtue a nd knowledge，inherent the essence a nd keep innovation”, LNUTCM has promoted intensive development comprehensively, a nd enhanced the co re strength in university management, a nd has also made impo rtant contributions to the comprehensive revitalization of Liaoning province a nd the cause of inheriting a nd developing traditional Chinese medicine. LNUTCM has been steadily stepping with great strides towards a high-level TCM university a nd will greet the bright future of traditional Chinese medicine with new a nd greater achievements!