Chengde Medical University is a full-time undergraduate medical university under the leadership of Hebei Provincial People's Government, located in the historical and cultural city of Chengde City. Since its establishment, the university has adhered to the spirit of "political firmness, benevolence and sincerity, respect for life, and dedication", the university-running philosophy of "benevolence, sincerity, and unity of knowledge and action", adhered to the university motto of "rigorous, realistic, diligent and innovative", adhered to the socialist direction of running a university, kept in mind the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people, and forged ahead and forged ahead on the journey of running a higher education that satisfies the people.
1. Historical evolution
Founded in September 1945, the university was known as the Health University of the Eastern Hebei Military Region, and was successively renamed as Jicha Reliao Branch of China Medical University, the Fourth Branch of China Medical University, Rehe Medical University, Rehe Provincial Medical University, Chengde Health University, Hebei Chengde Health University, Chengde Medical University, etc. In 1982, it was approved by the Ministry of Education and named Chengde Medical University. In 1996, the university was one of the first to pass the qualification assessment of undergraduate universitys organized by the former State Education Commission. In 2001, it merged with the Institute of Specialty Sericulture of Hebei Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences. In 2003, it was approved as a master's degree-granting institution. In 2006, the whole campus moved to the new campus and began to recruit international students.
2. Scale
There are 11,325 full-time students, 9,758 undergraduates, 1,418 graduate students, and 194 international students. Over the past 78 years since its establishment, the university has always been rooted in Saiwai, serving the society, cultivating more than 50,000 graduates, and making positive contributions to the development of medical and health services in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and surrounding areas, South Asia and African countries along the "Belt and Road".
3. Discipline specialization
There are 21 undergraduate majors. There are 5 first-level disciplines authorized for master's degrees, covering 36 second-level disciplines, and 5 master's professional degree categories, covering 39 professional fields. It has 2 national first-class undergraduate majors and 9 provincial first-class undergraduate majors. There are 2 national-level specialty construction sites, 1 pilot project for comprehensive reform of specialties, 2 pilot projects for the reform of excellent doctor education and training programs, 2 innovation highlands for undergraduate education, 2 majors with brand characteristics, 3 pilot projects for comprehensive reform of provincial-level specialties, 9 provincial-level high-quality courses, 1 high-quality resource sharing course, etc. There are 13 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, 4 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 5 provincial excellent teaching teams, 1 provincial off-campus practical education base for university students, 4 provincial curriculum ideological and political demonstration courses and 1 provincial curriculum ideological and political teaching and research demonstration center. There are 1 national key specialty of traditional Chinese medicine, 2 national key clinical specialty construction projects, 8 provincial key (development) disciplines, 5 provincial key medical disciplines (advanced and development), 19 provincial key clinical specialty construction (cultivation) units, 2 key specialty construction units of traditional Chinese medicine in Hebei Province, and 2 key disciplines of traditional Chinese medicine in Hebei Province.
4. Scientific research
At present, there are 2 provincial key laboratories, 1 provincial industrial technology research institute, 1 provincial academician workstation, 1 provincial foreign academician workstation, 1 provincial applied technology research and development center, 1 provincial key research laboratory of traditional Chinese medicine, 1 provincial international science and technology cooperation base, 1 provincial modern industry university, and 2 provincial science popularization demonstration bases. Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", 13 national-level projects and 130 provincial-level projects have been approved, and 93.1053 million yuan of scientific research funds have been obtained. He has published 3674 academic papers, of which 313 have been indexed by SCI and 1477 are in Chinese core journals. There are 541 awards for scientific and technological achievements at or above the municipal and departmental levels, including 13 provincial awards, 41 published works, 46 invention patents, including 5 PCT patents, and 1 transformation of scientific research achievements. He has edited and participated in the compilation of 46 national planning textbooks and 32 provincial and ministerial planning textbooks. In 2019, the academician workstation of Chengde Medical University passed the construction certification of the national academician expert workstation, and was selected as a model academician workstation by the Hebei Provincial Association for Science and Technology in the same year.
5. Faculty
At present, there are 2,117 faculty members (including directly affiliated hospitals), including 1,932 professional and technical personnel, 247 with senior professional titles, 578 with associate senior professional titles, and 1,416 with doctoral and master's degrees. There are nearly 100 people who have enjoyed the honorary titles of experts with special allowances from the State Council, national outstanding teachers, provincial famous teachers, model teachers, outstanding teachers, young and middle-aged backbone teachers, provincial experts with outstanding contributions, government special experts, young technical top-notch talents, and "333" talents. There are 7 doctoral supervisors and 743 master's supervisors.
6. University facilities
The campus covers an area of 748,900 square meters, with a construction area of 192,000 square meters. The total value of fixed assets is 893 million yuan, of which the value of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment is 220 million yuan. The library has a collection of 860,000 Chinese and foreign language paper books, 611 Chinese and foreign periodicals, 1.6 million electronic books, and 18 databases such as CNKI and Wanfang Database. There are 1 directly affiliated hospital, 11 non-affiliated affiliated hospitals, 33 teaching hospitals, 19 internship hospitals, and more than 40,000 teaching beds. The Affiliated Hospital of Chengde Medical University has two campuses, the main campus and the south campus, with a total area of 218 acres, a construction area of 250,000 square meters, total assets of 2 billion yuan, and 2,400 open beds. It has 129 sets of medical equipment worth more than 1 million yuan, 1,057 sets of medical equipment worth more than 100,000 yuan, and 33 laminar flow purification operating rooms.
7. Foreign exchanges
Adhering to the principle of openness and expanding foreign exchanges and cooperation, the company has established friendly exchanges and cooperative relations with more than 10 famous foreign universities and medical institutions, including the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Our university has hired more than 30 well-known scholars at home and abroad as visiting professors, including 5 foreign academicians as distinguished professors, Academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Denmark and Norway, Professor Hans Hultborn of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark won the "Chinese Government Friendship Award" in 2013, the "Hebei International Science and Technology Cooperation Award" in 2016, and Academician Ian Hickson won the "Yanzhao Friendship Award" awarded by the Hebei Provincial People's Government in 2022.
8. Social services
Give full play to the function of universities to serve the society and contribute to local social and economic construction. Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", the university has signed 16 agreements with enterprises, 15 horizontal projects, established 20 scientific research bases, guided more than 50 enterprises, trained more than 10,000 people, created benefits of 330 million yuan, alleviated more than 1,000 rural households, increased per capita income by more than 5,000 yuan, radiated Hebei Province and many surrounding provinces, cities, counties and districts, and supported the planting of more than 1.2 million acres of Chinese medicinal materials. Promote the independent research and development of feed mulberry varieties Jisang No. 3 more than 50,000 mu, scientific guidance mulberry area of 69,000 mu, the industry to radiate Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Xinjiang and other places. As the president unit of the Hebei University Students Red Ribbon Association, the university has guided 33 member units to carry out AIDS prevention and education activities, and has made positive contributions to the promotion and education of AIDS prevention and health in our province. Every year, the university dispatches village working groups to the rural areas of Kuancheng, Fengning and Luanping counties to carry out poverty alleviation work, and actively provide scientific and technological and intellectual support for the villages. In 2022, the university gave full play to its advantages in psychology to provide psychological services to more than 15,000 local people, and the affiliated hospitals had 1,897,200 outpatient and emergency visits, 77,300 discharged patients, and 28,000 surgeries (completed in the operating room).
9. Campus culture
Inheriting the red gene and the spirit of red medicine, advanced models such as good people in China, good people in Hebei, good people in Chengde, and moral models in Hebei Province have emerged successively. Our university has been awarded the title of "Provincial Civilized Unit" for 10 times, the "Top Ten Units" of Campus Culture Construction in Hebei Province, the "Civilized Compound" of Hebei Province, and the "Civilized Campus" of Hebei Province, the Party Committee of the University has been awarded the title of "Advanced Collective of Party Building in Universities in Hebei Province", the university has been awarded the title of "National Civilized Unit" in 2015, and the title of "National Civilized Unit" has been retained after the review and review of the first "Civilized Campus" in Hebei Province in 2017. The Youth League Committee was awarded the "National May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee"; the social practice of university students was commended by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Ministry of Education, and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League for six times; the University of Basic Medicine was awarded the "National Advanced Collective of Education System", the Sixth Party Branch of the University of Basic Medical Sciences was awarded the "National Model Branch of Party Building"; the University of Nursing was named the "National 38 Red Flag Collective"; the Affiliated Hospital was rated as "Advanced Unit of National Health System", "Advanced Unit of Ideological and Political Work of National Health System", and "National Civilized Unit". China Hospital Quality Management Award - Management Innovation Excellence Award".