Guangzhou University of traditional Chinese medicine is based on the Guangdong special school of traditional Chinese medicine, which was founded in 1924. Guangzhou College of traditional Chinese medicine was established with the approval of the State Council in 1956. It is one of the first four undergraduate colleges of traditional Chinese medicine in New China. It was renamed Guangzhou University of traditional Chinese medicine in 1995. Originally directly under the Ministry of health, it was transferred to the Guangdong Provincial People's Government in 2000. In 2017, it was selected as a national "double first-class" discipline construction university. In 2018, it was promoted to the key construction University of Guangdong Provincial high-level university. In 2020, it became a co construction unit of Guangdong Provincial People's government, the Ministry of education and the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine. In 2021, it was selected into the national second round of "double first-class" construction universities and disciplines, and the new round of key construction universities of Guangdong Provincial high-level universities. The University adheres to the party's comprehensive leadership, the socialist direction of running a school, and the president responsibility system under the leadership of the Party committee, is loyal to the party's educational cause, implements the fundamental task of Building Morality and cultivating people, adheres to the school motto of "being virtuous, erudite, and sincere in helping the world" and the university spirit of "upholding morality and lofty aspirations, being tolerant, learning from the past and seeking innovation, and being devoted to learning and refining industry", and cultivates socialist builders and successors with all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique, art and labor.

There are two campuses, Sanyuanli and University Town, covering an area of 1205 Mu and a construction area of more than 780000 square meters. There are 1608 full-time teachers, including 503 with senior titles and 513 with deputy senior titles. There are a number of famous experts and professors represented by national medical masters zhe Guowei and Zhou daihan. There are 17 secondary colleges; In 2022, there were 24 majors enrolled and 27 majors with students in school. Among them, there are eight national first-class professional construction points, including traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and massage, clinical medicine of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, pharmacy, resources and development of traditional Chinese medicine, rehabilitation therapy, and medical testing technology, as well as nursing, computer science and technology, public utility management, applied psychology, biotechnology, physical education, medical information engineering, biomedical engineering, medical imaging, ophthalmology There are eleven provincial-level first-class professional construction sites of traditional Chinese medicine health preservation. At present, the university has 7 first-class disciplines of master's degree authorization: Traditional Chinese medicine, integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, clinical medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and basic medicine, 2 second-class disciplines: social medicine and health management, philosophy of science and technology, and 3 professional degree categories (fields) of master's degree authorization: Traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and nursing; At present, there are three first-class disciplines of traditional Chinese medicine, integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine, as well as one professional degree category (field) of traditional Chinese medicine; There are three post doctoral research stations in traditional Chinese medicine, integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and traditional Chinese medicine. It has 1 national "double first-class" construction discipline; 6 key construction disciplines of high-level universities in Guangdong Province; 25 key disciplines of traditional Chinese medicine of the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine; Clinical medicine, pharmacology and toxicology are among the top 1% of ESI in the world.

The university is one of the first batch of colleges and universities to implement the "reform pilot of excellent doctor (traditional Chinese Medicine) education and training plan" and undertake the "reform pilot project of top-notch innovative talents mode of traditional Chinese medicine" determined by the Ministry of education, and is selected into the second batch of national demonstration colleges and universities to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education. "Emphasizing classics and strengthening clinical practice" is the most distinctive feature of undergraduate teaching in the University. Degree and graduate education, which began in 1978, is one of the first universities in China to obtain the right to confer doctoral and master's degrees. The scale and quality of degree and graduate education rank first among similar universities in the country. The school has a large number of talents, and has cultivated a number of outstanding alumni, such as Professor Liu Liang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering, with alumni all over the world.

The scientific research work of the university has obvious characteristics and advantages. "Clinical and Experimental Research on myasthenia gravis with spleen deficiency" won the second prize of the national science and Technology Progress Award in 1992; "Series of studies on syndrome differentiation and treatment of spleen deficiency syndrome" won the second prize of the national science and Technology Progress Award in 2000. Its landmark achievement "inheritance and innovation of spleen deficiency theory and its application research" was selected into the "major theoretical inheritance and innovation collection of Chinese traditional medicine" in 2016; "Clinical research on the treatment of femoral head necrosis with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine" won the second prize of the national science and Technology Progress Award in 2000. As a major member unit, the school participated in the national "523" malaria control project, which clinically confirmed the antimalarial effect of artemisinin and made a significant contribution to the invention of artemisinin. Professor liguoqiao's team has won the National Science Conference award, the second prize of National Technological Invention Award and the second prize of national scientific and technological progress award. The project of "theoretical innovation and clinical application of acupuncture in the treatment of ischemic stroke" by Professor Xu nenggui's team won the second prize of the national science and Technology Progress Award in 2019. The university has 60 scientific research platforms at or above the provincial and ministerial levels, represented by the first National Key Laboratory of traditional Chinese Medicine - "the provincial and ministerial joint construction of the National Key Laboratory of dampness syndrome of traditional Chinese medicine", and focuses on the construction of Hengqin new traditional Chinese medicine technology innovation center, science and Technology Innovation Center (University Town Campus), intelligent Chinese Medicine Research Institute, national traditional Chinese medicine center, national traditional Chinese Medicine Inheritance and innovation base and other large-scale innovation sharing platforms.

The school has been cooperating with Southeast Asia, Africa, South Pacific and other countries to carry out anti malaria research on Artemisia annua. The artemisinin compound antimalarial drug independently developed by our school was included in the malaria treatment guidelines of the World Health Organization, and the plan of artemisinin compound universal medication to eliminate the source of infection was included in the universal medication of falciparum malaria - Field Implementation Manual of the World Health Organization. The 4th generation artemisinin compound with independent intellectual property rights is listed as the key project of building a strong province of traditional Chinese medicine in Guangdong Province and the key foreign cooperation project of the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine. Our school has undertaken the technical assistance project of China's assistance to the Comoros anti malaria center, the technical assistance project of malaria control in Sao Tome and Principe, and the construction project of Guangdong Province's assistance to the Papua New Guinea malaria control center, helping Comoros achieve zero malaria death for the first time in its history. China Comoros malaria control center, China Papua New Guinea Traditional Chinese medicine center, China Togo traditional Chinese medicine center, China Malawi traditional Chinese medicine center and other six overseas centers have been established, contributing traditional Chinese medicine wisdom to the implementation of the "human health community" and accelerating the global malaria control process.

Based on its own advantages, the University actively participates in the construction of a strong province of traditional Chinese medicine. At present, there are 4 directly affiliated hospitals, 5 jointly built with the government, and a number of non directly affiliated hospitals. The First Affiliated Hospital has become the "construction unit of key traditional Chinese medicine hospitals" of the national traditional Chinese Medicine Inheritance and innovation project, the national traditional Chinese Medicine Inheritance and innovation center, the national traditional Chinese medicine clinical research base, the national major epidemic treatment base, the national traditional Chinese medicine epidemic prevention and control team and epidemic prevention and control base. Relying on traditional Chinese medicine hospitals and national regional medical centers, it is one of the hospitals with the largest number of regional traditional Chinese medicine (specialty) diagnosis and treatment centers in the country "; The Second Affiliated Hospital is the national pilot hospital for establishing and improving the modern hospital management system, the first batch of key construction units for the construction of high-level hospitals in Guangdong Province, the National Regional Medical Center construction output hospital, the national clinical research base of traditional Chinese medicine, and the only Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Joint Laboratory in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, It was rated as "national advanced grass-roots party organization", "national civilized unit" and "national advanced collective in the fight against COVID-19". The Third Affiliated Hospital is a grade-3 Grade-A bone injury specialist hospital in Guangdong Province, with traditional Chinese medicine bone injury department as the leading specialty of the hospital. During the "SARS" period in 2003, our affiliated hospital, as the leader of the anti SARS traditional Chinese medicine expert group of the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine, advocated the early intervention of traditional Chinese medicine, The clinical effect is outstanding and has been recognized by experts of the World Health Organization. During the COVID-19 in 2020, our experts, as members of the expert group of the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine for the prevention and control of COVID-19, participated in the formulation of the first to seventh editions of the diagnosis and treatment plan of the National Health Commission and the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine. The affiliated hospital directly under the university has successively sent 112 medical and nursing personnel to Hubei; Experts were sent to Malaysia as the leader of the Chinese government's anti epidemic medical expert group to assist in epidemic prevention and control.

The school actively promotes collaborative innovation and serves the local economy. It has established industry university research partnerships with 15 cities inside and outside the province to help farmers accurately get rid of poverty and promote the revitalization of mountainous villages. Weinaian, Guxian tablets, Xiaoke pills, Jinfo Zhitong pills, Zishen Yutai pills, Hewei Zhitong capsules and other series of Chinese patent medicines developed by the school have become the core products of Guangdong pharmaceutical enterprises and sold well all over the country. During the 13th Five Year Plan period, the University vigorously developed the transfer of scientific and technological achievements and technology transfer, and the contract fee for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements reached 70million yuan. In the whole province, 50 standardized planting bases of traditional Chinese medicine characterized by "Southern medicine" have been established, with a planting area of more than 2 million mu.

The school has vigorously explored and promoted the culture of traditional Chinese medicine, shaping the unique humanistic environment of the industry. The Guangdong Museum of traditional Chinese medicine built by the university is the first batch of national secondary museums in Colleges and universities across the country. Together with the First Affiliated Hospital and the Second Affiliated Hospital, it has been identified by the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine as the first batch of national bases for the publicity and education of traditional Chinese medicine culture, and has become an important window for the dissemination of traditional Chinese medicine culture in Guangdong.

The school gives full play to its geographical and cultural advantages and actively serves the national "the Belt and Road" initiative and the development strategy of Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Great Bay area. Since 1974, it began to recruit foreign students, and has trained more than 20000 senior talents of traditional Chinese medicine for more than 110 countries and regions. The University and its affiliated hospitals jointly build joint laboratories and research bases with internationally renowned universities, cooperate to set up characteristic brand courses, carry out exchange student projects, carry out in-depth cooperative research in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, jointly establish the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Great Bay Area Traditional Chinese Medicine Innovation Center, and jointly establish a Sino Swedish joint research base of traditional Chinese medicine with Karolinska Medical College in Sweden. At present, the university has established a number of Guangdong Hong Kong Macao professional alliances in the field of traditional Chinese medicine in conjunction with universities and medical institutions in Hong Kong and Macao, such as the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao alliance of traditional Chinese medicine, the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao alliance of basic courses of traditional Chinese medicine education in colleges and universities in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, the Guangdong Hong Kong Bay Chinese medicine, the integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine nursing alliance, and the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Bay elderly nursing alliance. The school has also established 7 National Overseas centers of traditional Chinese medicine and 3 national international cooperation bases of traditional Chinese medicine in many countries and regions, such as the China Australia International Research Center of traditional Chinese medicine, the China Africa malaria control center, the China US education and research base of traditional Chinese medicine, etc. the construction has made remarkable achievements and formed a demonstration effect, radiating and driving the further development of the whole industry of foreign exchange and cooperation of traditional Chinese medicine.