Heilongjiang University of traditional Chinese medicine was founded in 1954. After more than 60 years of construction and development, the university has become a higher institution of traditional Chinese medicine with a high level of teaching, scientific research and medical treatment, which has a certain impact at home and abroad. In 2004, the University was among the first batch to obtain the excellent conclusion of the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of education. In 2007, the first unit in China to pass the undergraduate traditional Chinese medicine professional certification of the Ministry of education. In 2018, it was approved to become a "high-level university and University with advantageous and characteristic disciplines" in Heilongjiang Province. In 2021, it was approved to become a University jointly built by the people's Government of Heilongjiang Province and the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine.

The university has 16 colleges, 14 affiliated hospitals (4 directly under), 1 Institute of traditional Chinese medicine, 1 Institute of higher education of traditional Chinese medicine, 26 teaching hospitals and 70 practice bases. It has 27 undergraduate majors, covering five disciplines, including medicine, science, engineering, management and law. There are 4 first-class disciplines and 31 second-class disciplines with the right to confer doctoral degrees; There are 7 first-class disciplines and 36 second-class disciplines with the right to confer master's degrees; There are 1 doctor's degree authorization point and 4 master's degree authorization points. At present, there are 18288 full-time students, including 569 doctoral students, 3175 master's students, 14263 undergraduate students, 7 junior college students, 219 international students and 55 preparatory students.

The school has four post doctoral research stations of traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, integrated traditional and Western medicine, and pharmacy. It is the construction site of the first class of national characteristic majors (traditional Chinese medicine, pharmaceutical preparations, acupuncture and massage) and the first batch of second class characteristic majors (traditional Chinese Medicine). The innovative experimental area of traditional Chinese medicine talent training mode is the first batch of innovative experimental area of talent training mode of the Ministry of education, and the innovative experimental area of traditional Chinese medicine clinical talent training mode is the innovative experimental area of talent training mode of Heilongjiang Province. Eight undergraduate majors, including traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, rehabilitation therapy, acupuncture and massage, clinical medicine of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, pharmacy, resources and development of traditional Chinese medicine, and medical experimental technology, were rated as national first-class undergraduate professional construction points, and 10 undergraduate majors, including nursing and pharmaceutical preparations, were rated as provincial first-class undergraduate professional construction points. In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation, the discipline of traditional Chinese medicine ranked first, and the discipline of traditional Chinese medicine ranked fourth. It has become one of the three Chinese medicine colleges and universities awarded the "a+" discipline in the country. The school has 4 national key disciplines, 21 national key disciplines of the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine, 15 provincial key disciplines, and 19 provincial leading talent echelons; There are 3 national teaching teams, 5 provincial teaching teams and 1 provincial curriculum ideological and political construction teaching team; There are 2 national first-class undergraduate courses, 8 national excellent courses, 8 national excellent resource sharing courses, 16 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, 6 provincial ideological and Political Construction Demonstration Courses, and 22 provincial excellent courses; Won 1 first prize and 1 second prize for excellent textbooks in the first National Textbook Construction Award, 1 special prize for excellent textbooks, 3 first prizes and 3 second prizes in the first provincial Textbook Construction Award; There is a national course Ideological and political demonstration project and a national virtual teaching and research office. The university has won the title of national excellent higher education research institution twice, and has successively won 2 first prize, 7 second prize and 65 provincial teaching achievement awards. The teaching experiment center is the first batch of "national experimental teaching demonstration center" determined by the national colleges and universities of traditional Chinese medicine; The Museum of traditional Chinese medicine was identified as the Heilongjiang Museum of traditional Chinese medicine, and was selected as the national science popularization education base from 2021 to 2025; The Chinese medicine literature retrieval center was identified as the Heilongjiang Branch of the Chinese medicine literature retrieval center and the designated unit for the first batch of scientific and technological projects of the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine.

At present, the university has 1 Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of education, 1 Key Laboratory, 1 Research Center of the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine, 3 key research laboratories and 10 tertiary laboratories; There are 1 Engineering Center in Heilongjiang Province, 8 key laboratories, 3 clinical medical research centers, 5 key laboratories in Colleges and universities, and 2 engineering technology centers for school enterprise cooperation; There is one international scientific and technological cooperation base of traditional Chinese medicine of the Ministry of science and technology, one international scientific and technological cooperation base of traditional Chinese medicine of the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine, and one scientific and technological innovation platform of Heilongjiang Province. Currently, it is the chief scientist unit of the national "973 Plan" project, and has successively obtained 3829 scientific research projects at all levels, including 5 national 973 projects and projects, 1 863 project, and 8 national key R & D projects in the 13th five year plan; It has won 1641 awards at all levels, including 1 second prize of national technological invention, 8 second prizes of national scientific and technological progress, 1 science and technological progress award of Heliang Heli foundation, 2 Wu Jieping Paul Janssen Medical Pharmacy awards, 1 Wu Jieping Pharmaceutical Innovation Award, 2 first prizes of outstanding achievements in scientific research in Colleges and universities, 4 first prizes of science and technology award of China Association of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, 3 first prizes of science and technology award of China Association of traditional Chinese medicine There are 18 first prizes of Heilongjiang Provincial Science and technology award, 1 first prize of science and technology award of China Association for the promotion of traditional Chinese medicine research, 1 first prize of science and technology award of China Rehabilitation Medicine Association, and 2 first prizes of science and technology award of China Acupuncture Association. The dissertations written by doctors trained by the University were awarded "National Excellent Doctoral Dissertations" by the Ministry of education and the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council in 2008 and 2012 respectively. The total value of teaching and scientific research equipment of the university is 485million yuan, and there are a number of large-scale precision instruments and equipment, such as superconducting nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, ultra-high resolution mass spectrometer, etc. It is at the international advanced level in the research of serum pharmacochemistry of traditional Chinese medicine and the material basis of the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine natural drugs. It is at the domestic leading level in the research of compatibility laws of prescriptions, the mechanism of acupuncture and moxibustion, and the clinical research of traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of major diseases such as internal medicine, gynecology, kidney disease and so on.

The first hospital affiliated to the University (the first clinical medical college and nursing college) is the construction unit of the national clinical research base of traditional Chinese medicine, the national demonstration Hospital of traditional Chinese medicine, the national treatment base of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine for major epidemics, and the standardized training base for the first batch of traditional Chinese medicine residents and general practitioners of the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine. The Second Affiliated Hospital (the second Academy of clinical medicine, the Academy of acupuncture and massage, and the Academy of rehabilitation medicine) is the first hospital of traditional Chinese medicine in Heilongjiang Province to be recognized by the National Institute for clinical trials of drugs, and is one of the first construction units of modern traditional Chinese medicine hospitals in China. The Third Affiliated Hospital (the Third Clinical Medical College) was originally affiliated to the State Grid Heilongjiang Electric Power Co., Ltd. and was transferred to the State Grid in December 2018. It is managed as a public welfare class II institution. It is planning to build a three-level integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine hospital with traditional Chinese Medicine as the main and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine as the characteristics. The Fourth Affiliated Hospital (the Fourth Clinical Medical College, Heilongjiang rehabilitation hospital) was originally affiliated to the Heilongjiang disabled persons' Federation. It was transferred to Heilongjiang disabled persons' Federation in June 2019. It is a three-level rehabilitation hospital integrating public welfare, comprehensiveness and demonstration. It is striving to build a new modern traditional Chinese Medicine hospital led by rehabilitation characteristics. The four affiliated hospitals have more than 4500 beds, including 25 national key specialties and 31 provincial key specialties, with an average annual outpatient volume of 1.5 million person times, setting the banner of the development of traditional Chinese medicine in the province, and making positive contributions to ensuring the health of Longjiang people and promoting the reform and development of medical and health undertakings.

The university has 4044 faculty members (845 in the headquarters), 1121 full-time teachers, 164 doctoral tutors, 610 master tutors, 36 people who enjoy special allowances from the State Council and the provincial government, 2 members of the discipline review group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, 7 members of the Teaching Guidance Committee of colleges and universities of the Ministry of education, 6 middle-aged and young experts with outstanding contributions at the national level, 7 national candidates for the million talent project, and 2 national advanced workers, There are 2 national outstanding scientific and technological workers, 1 national medical master, 4 national famous traditional Chinese medicine, 2 national famous teaching teachers, 1 national model teacher, 5 national excellent teachers, 2 national famous teaching teachers in Colleges and universities of traditional Chinese medicine, 1 National May Day female pacesetter, 2 National May Day Labor medal winners, 1 national outstanding contribution award winner of traditional Chinese medicine, 1 chief scientist of Qihuang project, 6 Qihuang scholars, and 5 young Qihuang scholars, There are 2 Longjiang science and technology talents and 17 Longjiang scholars. The school has launched and implemented the "support plan for outstanding innovative talents" and the "support plan for outstanding young backbone teachers" to strive to build a high-quality talent team and comprehensively enhance the core competitiveness of the school.

The university has the only drug safety evaluation center (GLP laboratory) in the three northeastern provinces, established the gap center for traditional Chinese medicine of Heilongjiang University of traditional Chinese medicine, and is now the leading unit of the "provincial pharmaceutical industry school enterprise cooperation professional committee". With Qinghe traditional Chinese medicine seed and seedling breeding base as the core, the planned construction of the "China Northern Medicine Park" project was successfully approved as the first national traditional Chinese medicine health tourism demonstration base. The university has been employed as the chairman of the Teaching Steering Committee of traditional Chinese medicine in Colleges and universities of the Ministry of education for two consecutive times, and has become the only provincial undergraduate university in the province to be employed as the chairman of the Teaching Steering Committee. The school is also the chairman unit of the professional committee of traditional Chinese medicine chemistry, the professional committee of traditional Chinese medicine identification and the professional committee of reproductive medicine of the World Federation of traditional Chinese medicine, the executive director unit of the Council of the Chinese Association of traditional Chinese medicine, the chairman unit of the pharmaceutics branch of the Chinese Association of traditional Chinese medicine, the vice chairman unit of the Chinese acupuncture and Moxibustion Society, and the vice chairman unit of the National Association of higher education of traditional Chinese medicine.

The school has the qualification to receive academic education for foreign students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. It is one of the first batch of institutions approved by the Ministry of education to recruit foreign students in China. It has carried out education, medical, scientific and technological cooperation and exchanges with more than 40 Medical Colleges or research institutions in more than 30 countries and regions in the world. At present, the school has 140 long-term international cooperation projects, accepts more than 500 foreign visiting scholars, and trains more than 5000 foreign students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The world's first Confucius Institute of traditional Chinese medicine, jointly founded by the University, South Bank University in London and Harbin Normal University, has been rated as "advanced Confucius Institute" by the Ministry of education and the national Hanban for many times, and has become the world's first "model Confucius Institute".

The school established the "Longjiang traditional Chinese medicine forum", hosted many large international academic conferences, held the "Sino Russian biomedical forum" with the Amur National Medical College of Russia, jointly initiated the establishment of the Sino Russian Alliance for the innovation and development of traditional Chinese medicine, established the Sino Russian College of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, jointly applied for international cooperation projects, and made every effort to build the Sino Russian discipline of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine into a world-class discipline. The University cooperates with the University of Adelaide in Australia to establish the world's first Institute of traditional medicine; The US branch of Heilongjiang University of traditional Chinese medicine was established in cooperation with the chamber of Commerce of the United States Federation of traditional Chinese medicine, becoming the first institution in the world to offer a bachelor's degree in traditional Chinese medicine abroad. The school has also been identified as the construction unit of the China Hungary government project "China Central and Eastern Europe Chinese medicine center".

Adhering to the motto spirit of "diligence, truth-seeking, erudition and innovation", the university takes it as its responsibility to carry forward the essence of traditional Chinese medicine and benefit human health, and strives to build an internationally influential and domestic first-class university of traditional Chinese medicine with distinctive characteristics based on the sincerity of great medicine and the ultimate goodness!