HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Harbin Medical University is located in Harbin, the ice city in the north. It is a medical institution with profound historical and cultural heritage. It was established by Binjiang Medical School (renamed Harbin Medical University in 1938) founded by Dr. Wu Lien-teh, a pioneer of modern medicine in my country, in 1926, and the first and second branches of China Medical University in Xingshan (now Hegang City), formerly the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army Medical School founded by the Communist Party of China in Ruijin, Jiangxi in 1931. After nearly a hundred years of development and construction, the school has inherited the spirit of Dr. Wu Lien-teh’s “sincere patriotism, self-reliance and entrepreneurship”, carried forward the glorious tradition of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army Medical School of “political firmness and excellent technology”, adhered to the school motto of “straight wood in the rope, erudition and medicine”, and practiced the school philosophy of “persisting in running schools for students and scholars, and firmly promoting the school with academic style”, deepening the development ideas of “gathering talents, strengthening undergraduates, grasping clinical, first characteristics, removing barriers, building medical engineering, and optimizing ecology”, and continuously enhancing its comprehensive strength, with a considerable development scale and distinctive school characteristics. The school is a university jointly built by the ministry and the province, a first-class university under construction in Heilongjiang Province, the Chinese lead unit of the Sino-Russian Medical University Alliance, a national basic science research and teaching talent training base, one of the first seven-year higher medical education institutions piloted by the Ministry of Education, and a high-level public health college under construction by the Ministry of Education.

 The university has 18 secondary schools and 8 public institutions. There are 9 affiliated hospitals, including 5 directly affiliated hospitals. There are 18,312 faculty members (including 503 in Daqing campus), 16,364 undergraduate students (including 8,254 in Daqing campus), 8,855 postgraduate students (including 2,116 doctoral students and 6,739 master students), and 267 international students. There are 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 2 members of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, 1 winner of the Nightingale Award, 3 members of the State Council Discipline Evaluation Group, 19 members of the Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, 1 member of the National Medical Professional Degree Graduate Education Steering Committee, 4 national teaching masters, 51 people selected for national talent projects, 5 outstanding science and technology/young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to the country, 8 selected as new century outstanding talents of the Ministry of Education, 14 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions of the Ministry of Health, and 89 people enjoying special government allowances of the State Council. There are 3 Huang Danian-style teacher teams in national universities, 4 national teaching teams, and 2 innovation teams of the Ministry of Education. There are 36 “Longjiang Scholars”, 30 people enjoying special allowances from Heilongjiang Province, 33 provincial leading talent echelons, 41 provincial leading talent echelon leaders, and 6 “leading goose” teams in Heilongjiang Province.

 The university has 9 first-level doctoral degree authorization points, 10 first-level master’s degree authorization points, 2 doctoral professional degree authorization categories, 7 master’s professional degree authorization categories, 6 postdoctoral research mobile stations, and 33 undergraduate majors. There are 2 national key disciplines, 1 national key cultivation discipline, and 21 provincial key disciplines (groups). There is 1 national emergency medical rescue base, 44 national clinical key specialty construction projects, 1 national standardized training demonstration base for resident physicians, and 9 national standardized training key professional bases for resident physicians. There are 12 national first-class undergraduate professional construction points and 8 provincial first-class undergraduate professional construction points. There are 9 disciplines in the top 1% of the ESI global ranking, and clinical medicine is in the top 1‰ disciplines. There is 1 national key laboratory, 1 international science and technology cooperation base, 1 international cooperation joint laboratory, 5 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 3 key laboratories of the National Health Commission, 1 provincial and ministerial co-construction national key laboratory cultivation base, 28 provincial key laboratories, and 4 provincial international science and technology cooperation platforms. There is one national-level talent training model innovation experimental zone, four national-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, one national-level virtual simulation experimental teaching center, one national-level clinical teaching and training demonstration center, three virtual teaching and research office pilots of the Ministry of Education, two practical teaching bases of the Ministry of Education’s “Big Ideological and Political Courses”, two provincial modern industrial colleges, and one provincial innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration base. There are 28 national first-class undergraduate courses, 12 national-level quality courses, 12 national-level quality resource sharing courses, 4 national-level quality video open courses, 1 national quality online open course, 2 national bilingual teaching demonstration courses, 1 brand course taught in English for international students in China by the Ministry of Education, 2 quality online open courses for undergraduate education (taught in English) for international students in clinical medicine by the Ministry of Education, and 54 provincial first-class undergraduate courses.

 In the past ten years, he has edited 89 planned textbooks and reprinted planned textbooks of the Ministry of Education and the National Health Commission. He won 1 first prize and 1 second prize in the National Textbook Construction Award, and 1 advanced individual in the National Textbook Construction Award. He was approved for 3 pilot projects of the Ministry of Education’s Excellent Doctor Education and Training Program Reform, 1 Ministry of Education Course Ideological and Political Demonstration Project, and 14 provincial course ideological and political demonstration projects. Two people won the first prize in the Second National College Ideological and Political Course Teaching Demonstration, 4 people won the first prize in the National College Teachers Teaching Innovation Competition, and 2 silver medals and 24 bronze medals in the China International “Internet +” College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. He won 6 second prizes for national teaching achievements and 39 provincial teaching achievement awards. He has established 651 provincial education and scientific research projects and published 1,475 national education and teaching papers, including 16 SCI papers. The university has won 8,464 scientific research projects of various types, and presided over 1 National Key Basic Research and Development Program (“973” Program), 1 National High Technology Development Program (“863” Program), 1 National International Cooperation Project, 1 National Science and Technology Major Project, and 11 National Key R&D Program Projects. The university has been approved for 1,340 National Natural Science Foundation projects, including 2 National Natural Science Foundation Innovation Research Group Projects, 11 National Natural Science Foundation Major Research Program Projects, 16 National Natural Science Foundation Key Projects, 3 National Major Scientific Research Instrument Development Projects, 16 International (Regional) Cooperation and Exchange Projects, and 18 Joint Fund Key Support Projects. The university has won 745 awards of various types, including 2 second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 3 first prizes of the Ministry of Education’s Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award for Higher Education Institutions (Scientific Research), 1 first prize of the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award, 1 Excellent Award of the China Patent Award, 25 first prizes and 168 second prizes of the Heilongjiang Provincial Science and Technology Award. Published 24,037 scientific research papers, of which 11,393 were indexed by SCI. Compiled and published 824 books. Owned 1,106 valid patents and 435 invention patents.

 Looking to the future, the school will be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, keep its original aspiration in mind, bear in mind its mission, emancipate its mind, forge ahead, focus on the goal of building “Double First-Class”, strive to build a century-old medical school, and work hard to write a beautiful chapter of a first-class domestic and internationally influential high-level medical university!