Wenzhou Medical University is a provincial general institution of higher learning in Zhejiang Province. The school can be traced back to the Zhejiang Medical College, founded in 1912, and was established in August 1958 by Zhejiang Medical College from Hangzhou to Wenzhou. It was originally named "Zhejiang Second Medical College" and later named "Wenzhou Medical College" after the location of the school. Hospital” was renamed “Wenzhou Medical University” in 2013 and became a university jointly established by the Zhejiang Provincial Government, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the Ministry of Education in 2015. In 2017, it became a key construction university in Zhejiang Province.

　　 The school began to enroll five-year undergraduate students in 1958, and enrolled postgraduates in 1978. It is the first batch of master's degree granting units in the country and has the right to grant doctoral degrees. Existing clinical medicine, basic medicine, pharmacy, biomedical engineering first-level discipline doctoral programs and clinical medicine professional doctoral programs, clinical medicine, nursing, Chinese pharmacy, biology, biomedical engineering, basic medicine, integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine, pharmacy , Medical technology, stomatology, public health and preventive medicine, public management and other 12 master's programs, clinical medicine, biomedical engineering, stomatology, nursing, public management, pharmacy, public health, applied psychology and other 8 majors Master's degree authorization point; there is a post-doctoral research mobile station for first-level clinical medicine. The school ranks 76th in the ESI National University Comprehensive Ranking. The four disciplines of clinical medicine, chemistry, pharmacology and toxicology, biology and biochemistry have entered the top 1% of ESI global rankings, of which clinical medicine has entered the top 0.2% of ESI global rankings . It has 1 provincial and ministerial national key laboratory, 1 national engineering technology research center, 1 national international science and technology cooperation base, 1 national international joint research center, 15 provincial and ministerial key laboratories (research centers), 1 One Zhejiang Province "2011 Collaborative Innovation Center", one Zhejiang Province Philosophy and Social Science Key Research Base. 2 Zhejiang "First-class Disciplines", 3 Zhejiang A-class first-class disciplines, 7 Zhejiang first-class disciplines, 10 Zhejiang university key disciplines, and 2 Zhejiang key construction disciplines.

　　 The school insists on being guided by social needs and aiming at the satisfaction of the people, and strives to cultivate outstanding medical talents who are sentimental, confident, capable of doing things and innovative. The school currently has 27 undergraduate enrollment majors, involving four disciplines including medicine, science, engineering, and management. There are 16,781 full-time students (excluding the independent college-Renji College of Wenzhou Medical University), including 167 doctoral students, 3140 master students, and more than 800 foreign students with academic education. The school has formed an all-round, multi-level talent training system from undergraduates to masters, doctoral students and post-doctoral students, from full-time to adult education, international students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The quality of personnel training has been steadily improved, and the pass rate of clinical medicine graduates who participated in the national medical qualification examination has consistently ranked among the top 10% in the country. According to the 2017 survey report of Zhejiang Educational Evaluation Institute, our school's 2016 (one year after graduation) and 2014 (three years after graduation) undergraduate graduates' career development and talent training quality rankings are all ranked in the province's undergraduate colleges the first.

　　 There are more than 10,000 faculty and medical staff in the school (including affiliated hospitals), of which more than 1,600 have senior professional and technical positions. There are 1422 full-time teachers in the school headquarters, of which 349 have senior professional and technical positions, 462 have associate senior professional and technical positions, and 813 have doctoral degrees. A group of outstanding teachers were selected into the National "Ten Thousand Talents Program", "Changjiang Scholars Award Program", National "Millions of Talents Project", national young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions, Ministry of Education "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program", National Health and Family Planning High-level talents such as young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions, provincial special-level experts, and specially-appointed professors of provincial universities; teachers won the "National Outstanding Teacher", "National Teacher Ethics Model", "National March 8th Red Flag Bearer", "National Health and Family Planning System Advanced Individual" , "Eye Optometry College Teacher Team" was selected into the first batch of national colleges and universities Huang Danian teacher team and other honors. Awarded as an advanced unit of provincial importance and talent.

The school has 4 national characteristic professional construction sites, 1 national teaching team, 1 national talent training innovation experimental zone, 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 national practical education base, and national quality resource sharing courses 5 courses, 1 national bilingual teaching demonstration course, 2 national-level English-taught branded courses for international students in China, 5 pilot projects of the Ministry of Education "Excellent Doctor Education Training Program", 1 national professional comprehensive reform pilot project; national level 2 second prizes for teaching achievements.

The school undertakes more than 1,100 national-level scientific research projects, and has won more than 160 provincial and ministerial awards for scientific research achievements, including 1 first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 4 second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, and second prize of the National Technology Invention Award 2 awards, 1 first prize and 3 second prizes of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Award, 5 first prizes of the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award, 1 first prize of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association Science and Technology Award, and 1 Zhejiang Science and Technology Award for Major Contributions There are 15 first prizes of Zhejiang Science and Technology Award, 1 second prize of Humanities and Social Sciences Outstanding Achievement Award of the Ministry of Education, and 3 first prizes of Zhejiang Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award.

The school actively promotes the internationalization of education, and has established good exchanges and cooperation with more than 130 universities and educational research institutions in 28 countries (regions), including more than 20 top 100 universities in the world, and exchanges and joint training of students abroad and teachers Substantive exchanges and cooperation have been carried out in academic exchanges and scientific research cooperation, Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, and the education of foreign students in China. There are currently three Sino-foreign cooperative education projects in the Sino-US Ophthalmology Doctorate Education Program, Sino-US Undergraduate Nursing Education Program, and Sino-Swiss Clinical Medicine Doctoral Education Program, of which two are listed as Zhejiang Sino-foreign cooperative education demonstration projects. Cooperated with Lublin Medical University in Poland to hold my country's first overseas clinical medical education project, and established overseas Confucius Institutes in cooperation with Eastern University of Thailand and State University of New York. It was selected as the first batch of construction units of "Zhejiang Internationalized Universities".

　　 The school currently has 3 campuses, with a total area of about 1,900 acres and a school building area of more than 550,000 square meters. The library has 1.97 million volumes of documents. The school sponsors, edits and publishes 5 academic journals and 1 academic newspaper, of which 3 journals are selected as "China Science and Technology Core Journals", and "Chinese Journal of Optometry and Vision Science" is a series of journals of the Chinese Medical Association. The school has 5 affiliated hospitals, 4 of which are tertiary first-class hospitals, and 19 non-direct affiliated hospitals (clinical colleges) in Zhejiang Province. The First Affiliated Hospital and the Affiliated Eye Optometry Hospital were selected as one of the top 100 national hospitals in the “2017 Chinese Hospital Science and Technology Influence Ranking” by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. The Affiliated Eye and Optometry Hospital ranked first in the national ophthalmology department in the "2017 Natural Index Ranking".

The school upholds the school motto of "Being, diligent and simple, seeking truth and striving", insisting on establishing a school with characteristics, strengthening the school with talents, and revitalizing the school with culture. It has gradually formed "to lead and drive all-round development with special disciplines to promote the internationalization process and improve the level of school running. The school-running characteristics of “service of local economic and social development with the integration of medical treatment and production, education and research” has explored a way to become a strong local institution of higher learning.

The development orientation of the school is: focusing on undergraduate education and actively developing graduate education; focusing on medical disciplines and coordinated development of multiple disciplines; based in Zhejiang, serving the whole country, facing the world; applying research with distinctive characteristics, first-class domestic and international influence Type university.