Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (ZCMU) is located in Hangzhou, a world-famous tourist resort known for its beautiful scenery and rich cultural heritage. ZCMU is a teaching and research-oriented university with Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Chinese Materia Medica as its leading subjects. As a key university in Zhejiang Province, it is jointly constructed by the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province, the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.
ZCMU now sets 18 schools and has 4 directly affiliated hospitals. Moreover, there are another 21 Hospitals located in different cities of Zhejiang Province affiliated to ZCMU.
ZCMU is among the first batch of universities in China to recruit and cultivate postgraduates of TCM and takes the lead among Zhejiang provincial universities eligible for awarding doctoral degrees and establishing post-doctoral research stations. Now it has three doctoral degree disciplines in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese Materia Medica, and Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine.
ZCMU has begun its international education and cooperation in 1984 and has established cooperative relationships with more than 120 educational, scientific research, and medical units in over 40 countries and regions such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Czech Republic. It has hired more than 50 foreign experts and scholars as visiting professors. ZCMU has established Confucius Institutes at Coimbra University in Portugal and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and has built overseas TCM centers in Romania, Israel, and the Republic of Belarus. So far as right now, nearly 10,000 international students from more than 60 countries and regions have graduated from ZCMU. Furthermore, it is the provincial cultural and educational base of TCM for international students.
