INTRODUCTION

Located in Ganzhou, a famous historical and cultural city in south of Jiangxi province and beside Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Gannan Medical University (GMU) is the only medical university of Bachelor Degree in Jiangxi province. Professor Han Jisheng, an academician of China Science Academy, works as the honorary president of GMU. GMU was founded as Ganxian Advanced Midwifery Vocational School of Jiangxi Province in 1941, developed to Gannan Medical Technical School in August 1958 and was updated to GMU in April 1988. GMU was eva luated to be excellent in teaching level of bachelor degree by the Ministry of Education of China in 2007, jointly cultivated graduates with other universities in 2001 and postgraduates in 2008, and currently becomes an important base for cultivating medical talents, supplying scientific service and innovating knowledge in Gannan, west of Fujian province, north of Guangdong province and east of Hunan province.

GMU is oriented to major in medicine and coordinate development of multi-discipline, multi-level and multi-type, boasts 19 bachelor degree majors and 16 college majors, covering Medicine, Science, Engineering, Literature, Law, Management and Education, 16 schools such as School of Basic Medicine Sciences, School of Clinical Medicine, School of Pharmacy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Information Engineering, School of Rehabilitation, School of International Education and School of Nursing, 3 Teaching Research Departments, namely, Department of Teaching Research of Military Education, Department of Teaching Research of Medicine Technology and Department of Teaching Research of Ideological and Political Theory. 2 national distinguished majors, 4 provincial distinguished majors, 4 excellent provincial teaching teams, 4 model centre of provincial university experiment teaching, 2 key university disciplines of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, 1 key provincial laboratory, 2 key provincial university laboratory, 15 excellent provincial university courses, 1 leading provincial medical disciplines and 8 leading medical disciplines of Ganzhou.