Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Founded in 1958, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (FJTCM) is a key university and a "Double First-Class" construction university of Fujian province. In the past 60 years, adhering to the school motto of "Pursue Excellence, Strive for Perfectio", the university has cultivated nearly 50,000 TCM talents both at home and abroad.

FJTCM consists of 13 colleges (departments) and 2 research institutes, and has established a complete talent training system for undergraduate, postgraduate and post-doctoral students with 2 centres for post-doctoral studies, 17 specialties for Doctoral candidates, 45 specialties for Master candidates, and 22 specialties for undergraduates. TCM, Rehabilitation Therapy, Clinical Integrative Medicine and Nursing are the brand specialties of the university. TCM Diagnostics, Integrative Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine are the characteristic and dominant disciplines of the university and the discipline of Clinical Medicine entered the ESI global top 1%. FJTCM has 4 directly affiliated hospitals, 18 non-directly affiliated hospitals, 7 clinical medical colleges, 100-plus bases for teaching and clinical practice, and has made important contributions to the local economic and social development and people's health. FJTCM got "A" level in the undergraduate education evaluation conducted by Ministry of Education both in 2002 and 2007. The university also got good results in the evaluation conducted by Ministry of Education on the Pilot Degree Program of Traditional Chinese Medicine in December 2010, and the Pilot Degree Program of TCM Pharmacology in May 2017. In 2016, the Physical Therapist professional entry level education program was awarded accreditation by the World Confederation for Physical Therapy, and the Occupational Therapy program was evaluated and approved by the World Federation of Occupational Therapists.

FJTCM has two campuses with graceful environment, complete facilities and TCM cultural atmosphere. At present, the total enrolment of full-time students is more than 12,000, including over 1,600 postgraduates. The university actively carries out overseas TCM exchanges and cooperation. The overseas education of the university began in the 1980s and has now formed a multi-level and multi-form overseas education pattern.

In the new phase of development, the university actively participates in the "Double First-Class" construction, the Belt and Road Initiative and the Strategy of "Healthy China", and make every effort to build the university into a high-level teaching-research TCM university with distinctive features, which specializes mainly in TCM and develops in other disciplines coordinately.