The Naval Medical University is located in Shanghai. It was founded in 1949 and was then called the People's Medical College of the East China Military Region. In 1951, it was named the Second Military Medical University. In 2015, it was transferred from the former General Logistics Department to the Training and Management Department of the Central Military Commission. In 2017, it was transferred to the Navy and the Naval Medical University was established. It can be called the Second Military Medical University. The school is a national key medical university that trains specialized talents in the health industry. Over the past 70 years, the school has always adhered to the school motto of "truth-seeking, innovation, rigor, and dedication", and gradually formed a "Red Cross Square Culture" with "liberal arts, benevolence, and practice" as the spiritual core, forming a distinctive school-running feature, and laying a solid foundation for the construction and development of the school. The school has successively participated in major military tasks such as the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, Aid Cambodia and Vietnam, and the Border Self-Defense Counterattack War, and has excellently completed non-war military operations such as flood control and rescue, fighting SARS, earthquake relief, fighting Ebola, escorting in the Gulf of Aden, polar scientific research, and harmonious missions. Since its establishment, the university has produced a large number of models of the times, including Wu Mengchao, a "model medical expert", Lv Shicai, a "model military doctor", Li Landing, a "model female medical worker", Kong Xiantao, a "famous teacher who is willing to be a stepping stone for others", Chen Yizhang, a "real scientist needed by the times", the "Red Cross Square" medical service doctor group, and the "Angel of Love on Nanjing Road" Changzheng Hospital Hemodialysis Center, which has accumulated a profound historical and cultural heritage. The school's comprehensive strength leads the entire army. The school is now a national "double first-class" key discipline construction university, a national "211 Project" key construction university, and one of the 36 "National Life Science and Technology Talent Training Bases". Our school has the only eight-year major in traditional Chinese medicine in the country. The existing naval medical department, health service department, traditional Chinese medicine department, and anesthesia department are all the only professional departments in the entire army. The school has 2 first-level national key disciplines and 26 second- and third-level national key disciplines; there are 93 master's degree authorization points, 83 doctoral degree authorization points, and 7 postdoctoral mobile stations. The school has always been in the first echelon of military colleges and medical colleges in China. In the latest 2019 World University Rankings (ESI), 7 disciplines were selected in the top 1% of the world, ranking first among military colleges. Elite teachers gather here. Since its establishment, the school has provided more than 120,000 qualified medical talents for the military, trained more than 85% of the naval health cadres, 80% of the medical management cadres, and 85% of the military pharmacy talents. The number of 7 academicians represented by Academician Wu Mengchao leads the medical colleges in China (excluding comprehensive universities). The school has 9 "Changjiang Scholars Award Program" of the Ministry of Education, 12 national candidates of the "Hundred Thousand Talents Project", 26 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, 7 people selected for the Ho Leung Ho Lee Award, 10 people were named National Outstanding Science and Technology Workers, and a large number of high-end talents were selected for various talent reward programs at the national, military and provincial and ministerial levels. The number and quality of talents are at the forefront of medical colleges in China, leading the school's education. Teaching and educating people are unique. In recent years, the school has focused on implementing the "Top Heaven and Earth" education action plan, built a comprehensive evaluation system for students' GPA and honorary credits, realized the sunshine distribution of excellent students and excellent credits, and took the lead in launching important educational reform measures such as the overseas study system for undergraduate students; won 4 second prizes for national teaching achievements, 8 first prizes for military teaching achievements, and 1 special prize for Chinese postgraduate education achievements, and passed the teaching evaluation of military academies with "excellent" results; the number of national-level teaching teams and national quality courses ranks first among all military academies, and 18 papers have been selected as "100 Excellent Doctoral Dissertations in China", ranking first among medical schools and military academies in China. Undergraduate students have won more than 40 first prizes in various international, national, and military-level competitions. On the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, 4 experts or graduates of the school were selected as "100 Advanced Model Figures in National Defense and Military Construction after the Founding of New China". Scientific research and innovation are among the best. The school currently has 1 national key laboratory, 2 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 14 key laboratories of military logistics research, and 6 key laboratories of Shanghai. In 2005, Academician Wu Mengchao won the National Highest Science and Technology Award, becoming the first person in the national health system, the military logistics system and Shanghai to receive this honor; the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery won the first batch of National Science and Technology Progress Award Innovation Team Award; since the 12th Five-Year Plan, it has won 1 National Innovation Award, 2 National Science and Technology Progress First Prizes, 1 National Science and Technology Progress Innovation Team Award, 14 National Natural Science and Technology Progress Second Prizes, and 1 National Technological Invention Second Prize. The total number of national awards has ranked first among medical colleges in the country for five consecutive years, and ranked 16th in the country from 2016 to 2018 (among the top 30, the only military college and the only single-discipline college). In the past two years, the number of approved national natural funds has ranked first in the entire army. The number of approved new drugs and patent authorizations has ranked first among military colleges for many years. The medical level is superb. The school has created many world firsts and national firsts in basic medical theory and clinical technology, and won the first National Highest Science and Technology Progress Award and Innovation Team Award in the medical field. The school has the only National Liver Cancer Science Center in China, 1 National Clinical Medicine Research Center, 23 National Key Clinical Specialties, 21 Military Specialty Centers, 6 Shanghai "Top Priority" Clinical Medicine Centers and the largest Burn Trauma Treatment Center in East China. The three Class A affiliated hospitals of Changhai, Changzheng and Dongfang Hepatobiliary Surgery are well-known throughout the country. The traditional medical characteristics of "burn, heart, hepatobiliary surgery", "orthopedics, brain surgery, and kidney disease" are obvious. Urology, gastroenterology, vascular surgery, etc. have formed new brands. The school conditions are modern and first-class. The school has modern teaching venues, laboratories, indoor constant temperature swimming pools and other complete teaching facilities. Multimedia equipment is widely used in teaching, and online teaching and MOOC courses are gradually matched and serialized. The "Red Cross" distance education network is well-known throughout the army. The school library is modern and comfortable, with full WIFI coverage. Students can check books and materials online at any time. The scope and guarantee capacity of literature resources are among the best in the military academies. In terms of living security, the student dormitories are fully air-conditioned, and the student canteen has a rich variety of dishes and many specialties to meet the needs of students with different tastes. The school has educational supermarkets, post offices, ticket centers, printing centers, color enlargement centers, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, bathrooms, barber shops, laundry rooms and other living facilities, which greatly facilitate the daily lives of students. Foreign exchanges have set a precedent. The school adheres to the open school-running strategy and has established cooperative school-running relationships with many famous schools and educational institutions in many countries (regions), such as the Medical School of Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, the Cleveland Clinic in the United States, the University of Queensland in Australia, and the Royal Thai Army Medical College. Every year, more than 30 undergraduates are selected to study abroad; many academic masters, including Nobel Prize winners, are invited to the school to give lectures and exchanges, serving as guest and honorary professors; more than 200 foreign leaders at or above the ministerial level have been received, and more than 1,500 military medical students have been trained for more than 100 countries. The six-year medical undergraduate program, in which Chinese and foreign military officers are trained in the same class, is well-known at home and abroad. Cooperating with local comprehensive universities to train eight-year clinical medicine students, the school has gradually achieved mutual recognition of credits, mutual employment of teachers, mutual exchange of courses and mutual granting of degrees with first-class domestic universities, and has continuously expanded channels for external exchanges, and the level of open education has been continuously improved. The cultural atmosphere is deep and rich. In addition to the serious and intense study and life, students can also experience the lively and colorful campus culture. The school holds the "Military University Art Festival", "Military Games" and "Student Team Cultural Festival" every two years, and regularly carries out unique campus cultural activities such as "Military Academy Lecture Hall" and "Student Lecture Hall". There are more than 30 student teams, involving many areas of interest for students; the school continues to strengthen the construction of brand cultural teams such as military bands, dance teams, and expert professor choruses, and has created three commandos such as the "Red Cross" Warriors, Sea Wolves and War Rescue, which have represented the school in military and non-military competitions many times and achieved excellent results. The school has been carrying out summer social practice activities for college students for more than 30 consecutive years, and has been jointly commended as the "National Advanced Unit for Summer Social Practice for College Students" by the Central Propaganda Department, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Ministry of Education, and the All-China Students' Federation 14 times.
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