Xinjiang Medical University

Xinjiang Medical University, located at the foot of the beautiful Xuelian Mountain in Urumqi, is the only medical university in Xinjiang that is jointly built by the ministry and the province.

The predecessor of Xinjiang Medical University, Xinjiang Medical College, was one of the 156 key projects of the country's First Five-Year Plan. In July 1954, the construction of Xinjiang Medical College began. Under the care of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Central Ministry of Health successively dispatched hundreds of teaching, medical and management cadres from 15 provinces and municipalities including Beijing, Shanghai, Shandong, Jiangsu and Liaoning to support the construction. In October 1956, the Xinjiang Medical College began to recruit students. In June 1998, Xinjiang Medical College merged with Xinjiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine to form Xinjiang Medical University. In August 2016, the People's Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the former National Health and Family Planning Commission and the Ministry of Education jointly issued the "Opinions on the Joint Construction of Xinjiang Medical University", and the university officially became a ministry-provincial co-construction university.

The university has two main campuses, 26 colleges (departments), 8 affiliated hospitals and 7 non-affiliated hospitals. There are also 18 teaching hospitals, 95 practice hospitals and 45 professional practice bases.

The school has established a complete system of bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs, covering five disciplines: medicine, science, engineering, management and law. There are five first-level discipline doctoral degree authorization points, three doctoral professional degree authorization points, 14 first-level discipline master's degree authorization points, ten master's professional degree authorization points, four postdoctoral research stations, four postdoctoral research workstations, and four disciplines included in the autonomous region's "14th Five-Year Plan" key discipline construction sequence. There are currently 29 undergraduate programs offered, including 6 national characteristic programs, 6 regional key programs, 9 national first-class undergraduate program construction points, 7 regional first-class undergraduate program construction points, and 1 national experimental zone for innovative talent cultivation mode. Clinical medicine, Pharmacology & toxicology, and biology & biochemistry have entered the top 1% of the ESI global ranking. Among them, clinical medicine is the first discipline in Xinjiang to enter the top 1% of the ESI global ranking, with the latest thousandth ranking at 2.07‰, while pharmacology & toxicology and biology & biochemistry have the thousandth ranking at 6.88‰ and 9.84‰ respectively.

From 2021 to the present, the university has carried out 2,975 research projects of all kinds and received 1,028,593,900 yuan in funding. Among them, there are 2,662 vertical projects with a total funding of 915,525,500 yuan; There were 313 horizontal projects, with a budget of 113,071,400 yuan. 110 scientific and technological achievement awards at all levels and of all kinds, including 68 provincial-level scientific and technological achievement awards. Published 1,916 SCI papers, 3,644 papers in Chinese core journals, obtained 2,485 valid patents, transferred 23 achievements, with a transfer contract value of approximately 8 million yuan.

The school currently has 2 national Experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 national clinical teaching and training demonstration centers, 1 national continuing education base for professional and technical personnel, 5 autonomous regional experimental teaching demonstration centers, and 1 autonomous regional continuing education base for professional and technical personnel. There are 60 research platforms at or above the provincial and ministerial level, including 1 national clinical research base of Traditional Chinese medicine, 1 key laboratory jointly built by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Science and Technology, 1 base for international science and technology cooperation of the Ministry of Science and Technology, 9 sub-centers of the National Clinical Research Center, 1 key laboratory jointly built by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Education, and 1 discipline innovation and intelligence introduction Program of the Ministry of Education. 1 Ministry of Education International Cooperation Joint Laboratory, 1 Ministry of Education Provincial Co-construction Collaborative Innovation Center, 1 Ministry of Education Engineering Research Center; 18 key laboratories of the autonomous region, 13 clinical medical research centers of the autonomous region, 2 engineering technology research centers of the autonomous region, 1 key research base for humanities and social sciences of ordinary higher education institutions of the autonomous region during the 14th Five-Year Plan, 1 research and practice base for strengthening the consciousness of the Chinese nation community in the education system of the autonomous region, and 1 demonstration base for attracting talents and intelligence of the autonomous region Seven science popularization education bases in the autonomous region.

There are currently 35,134 students of all kinds, including 19,898 full-time undergraduate and junior college students (19,407 undergraduates and 491 junior college students), 5,257 postgraduate students, 785 doctoral students, and 8,514 students in junior college to undergraduate and junior college continuing education.

The university was among the first batch of universities in the autonomous region to serve as a demonstration base for international students in Xinjiang and to receive government scholarships. It was awarded the title of Advanced Collective in the Education of International Students by the Ministry of Education. Currently, there are 680 international students at all levels of academic education, and it has cultivated more than 2,600 international students from 41 countries including India, Pakistan and Kazakhstan.

The school has 1,737 full-time teachers, among whom 1,510 hold doctoral or master's degrees, accounting for 86.93%. There are 908 senior teachers, 52.27 percent; There are 418 doctoral supervisors and 1,426 master's supervisors. There are two Huang Danyan-style teaching teams of national universities, one national teaching master, one national model teacher, one Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor, one national teaching master of Traditional Chinese medicine higher Education institutions, one national master of Traditional Chinese medicine, and four national famous traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. There are 18 autonomous region-level teaching masters and 15 teaching experts. Five have been selected as national candidates for the "100,000 Talents Project", and 37 experts enjoy special government allowances from The State Council. Two National Model Communist Party members, four National Model Workers, ten recipients of the National May Day Labor Medal, and one National Model Individual for Ethnic Unity and Progress.

Among the eight affiliated hospitals under the school, six are Grade A tertiary hospitals and two have not yet been rated as Grade A tertiary hospitals. In April 2024, the autonomous region established Xinjiang International Medical Center (Xinjiang International Hospital), which is under the management of Xinjiang Medical University. The eight directly affiliated hospitals cover a total area of 706,100 square meters, have a building area of 1,514,300 square meters, have a total of 10,020 beds, and 13,747 beds are actually open. There are 26 national key specialties, 97 autonomous region key specialties and 18 autonomous region clinical research centers. It provides support to 27 county-level hospitals, covering 9 regions and 21 counties. We have established medical alliance partnerships with 546 hospitals, led the formation of 78 specialized alliances, and built 305 telemedicine collaboration networks.

The First Affiliated Hospital has been rated A+ in the national monitoring indicators for performance assessment of tertiary public hospitals for four consecutive years, ranking among the top 10% of tertiary public hospitals in China, first in Xinjiang, and third in the northwest region of China Hospital Ranking (Comprehensive) for nine consecutive years. On the basis of being in the top 5% of the national performance assessment of tertiary public traditional Chinese medicine hospitals, the Fourth Affiliated Hospital has consistently maintained a leading position in the national assessment of public hospitals. The affiliated hospitals have formed a cluster of medical resources with high social recognition and influence by concentrating their strengths, having distinct characteristics, developing differently and coordinating as a whole.

The university has been strengthening its exchanges and cooperation with renowned universities at home and abroad. It has established comprehensive counterpart support and cooperation relations with Central South University, Jilin University, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, China Pharmaceutical University and Wenzhou Medical University, and friendly cooperation relations with more than 20 universities including Fudan University, Sun Yat-sen University and Lanzhou University. It has established friendly cooperation and exchange relations with 54 universities, medical and research institutions in eight countries, including Russia, Japan, the United Kingdom, France, Georgia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.

The school covers a total area of 1.7125 million square meters (about 2,569 mu), with a total building area of 1.2395 million square meters, including 397,900 square meters for teaching and auxiliary facilities. The total value of fixed assets was 4,847,106,800 yuan, and the value of teaching and research instruments and equipment was 422,329,900 yuan. The library covers an area of 50,200 square meters and has a total of 1,836,400 volumes of paper books, 734,400 volumes of electronic books, 760,100 volumes of electronic periodicals, 10,525,000 volumes of dissertations, and 5,393 hours of audio and video. It is one of the main member libraries of the provincial center of the China Higher Education Documentation Guarantee System (CALIS). The Ministry of Education's Science and Technology Novelty Search Station. The school makes full use of information technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data and ubiquitous perception to promote the construction of a "smart campus", with high-speed network coverage throughout the campus. The school has a variety of sports and cultural facilities, including a track and field, a gymnasium, a swimming pool, an all-weather playground, an outdoor ball game field and a cultural and creative center.