Beijing University of Chinese Medicine website：https://english.bucm.edu.cn

Beijing University of Chinese Medicine website

Beijing University of Chinese Medicine website：https://english.bucm.edu.cn

       Beijing University of Chinese Medicine is a national key university with the backbone of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is directly under the management of the Ministry of Education and is jointly established by the Ministry of Education, the National Health Commission, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Beijing.

       Beijing University of Chinese Medicine (BUCM), founded in 1956, a prestigious university in China, has been well-known for its leading subjects traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Chinese Materia Medica. Since its inception, BUCM has been listed under the Project 211, a project designed for prioritizing development of about 100 colleges and universities and a host of key disciplines for the 21st century. Since 2011, it has been listed under the Project 985, a major decision made by CPC and the State Council on building first-class universities of the international standard at the turn of the century. Since 2017, its three disciplines have been listed under China’s “Double-First Rate” initiative (world-class universities and first-class disciplines), specifically Chinese Medicine, Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine and Chinese Materia Medica. The university now has three campuses – the Hepingjie Campus, the Wangjing Campus and the Liangxiang Campus.

      Boasting of distinctive characteristics and great strengths, BUCM has become an education base for the cultivation of high-level innovative TCM professionals, a model base for the reform of TCM education, a research base for the innovation in TCM knowledge and technology, a healthcare base for the prevention and management of critical conditions and rare cases, a humanity base for the dissemination of Chinese traditional culture, and an international exchange base for the introduction of TCM to the world. It has become a world-renowned TCM university integrating teaching, research and medical care. BUCM has made great contributions to the health undertakings, civilization and social advancement.

   From its inception, the school was the first higher institution of Chinese Medicine in New China to accept foreign students to study Chinese Medicine. So far, it has trained more than 20,000 Chinese Medicine professionals from 94 countries and regions. Importantly, it has established cooperative relationships with 118 well-known universities and research institutions from 31 countries and regions. In 1996, in cooperation with Middlesex University, UK, BUCM became the first university in China that could independently confer a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine in a university abroad. It takes the lead in providing undergraduate education in Traditional Chinese Medicine in the world's top 50 universities, and in cooperation with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, it set up a "Chinese Medicine - Biology" double bachelor’s degree education. In 2012, the Chinese Medicine Confucius Institute was established in Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan, to integrate Chinese Medicine course into the modern medical education system. In cooperation with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona, Spain, BUCM initiated the first EU-recognized Master's degree program in Chinese Medicine. The school also established the first Chinese medicine bachelor's degree program completely taught in English, and the first Chinese medicine masters and doctoral degree programs designed for students who are already biomedical doctors to learn Chinese medicine. 

   The school continues to explore and innovate its international development, through pioneering the BUCM Program at selected overseas TCM Centers. These Centers combine medical, educational, scientific research and cultural communication, and provide an effective method for the overseas development of Chinese Medicine. It has set up TCM Centers in Germany, Australia, Russia, and the United States. The Koetzting Hospital of Chinese Medicine, established in Germany in 1991, has set a precedent for Chinese universities to run Chinese Medicine specialty hospitals overseas and become a model for Chinese Medicine to the world. The Russian TCM Center has successfully obtained the necessary qualification as a medical institution in the Russian Federation, becoming the first Chinese Medicine specialty hospital in Russia to be included in the national medical insurance system. The Australian TCM Centre provides Chinese Medicine education for Western doctors. The TCM Center of the United States aims at the characteristics of Chinese medicine and the frontiers of medicine, and has successfully held many high-end academic conferences around cancer, epilepsy, pediatric diseases, reproductive diseases, etc. In 2019, it continued to promote the integration and development of traditional and modern medicine in partnership with the National Children's Hospital of the United States. In summary, overseas centers have become an important platform for international medical and health services, education, teaching and academic exchanges in Chinese medicine.