Yunnan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
In the east of the world, on the plateau of southwest of China, there is a warm fascinating spring-like city all the year round, Kunming. Here is adjacent to Vietnam, Burma and Laos with beautiful scenery, superior natural ecology and pleasant climate. Yunnan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (YUTCM) is located at the Shore of Dianchi Lake in Kunming, the spring city. The university has so far a history of more than fifty years.
Generations of Yunnan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine elaborately cultivated the cradle of talents in Yunnan traditional Chinese medicine and National medicine by exerting their utmost efforts against all odds.
The university has been always holding fast to the spirit of its motto “Highly Respect Morality, Pursue Harmony, Be Learned . Diligent and Practical.” It’s committed to cultivating the modern citizens with healthy personality, noble sentiment and professional spirit, pursuing the value of personality in Great Physicians with Good Virtues to carry forward the culture of TCM to benefit the human health with the reverence toward life.
It was approved as the master degree authorization unit by Academic Degree Commission of the State Council in 1986, listed as “the Doctoral project construction unit” by Yunnan provincial Degree Office in 2008 and the university began to carry out the joint doctoral training program with Beijing University of Chinese Medicine since 2012. Its undergraduate teaching is rated as “Excellence” in the teaching-quality assessment by the Ministry of Education of China in 2007.
YUTCM is one of the earlier universities of TCM implementing international education and it is also one of the earlier universities entitled to recruit overseas students in Yunnan province. It has begun to run school programs abroad since 1990s. Its landmark project, the establishment of Catalonia – YUTCM, as a cooperation project between the two governments of China and Spain, has laid the foundation for its international education. YUTCM has established cooperation with universities, scientific research and medical institutions from over 30 countries or regions, including Australia, France, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, America, Japan, India, Greece, Italy, Hongkong and Taiwan etc. More and more international students from more than 10 countries and regions of the world come to accept degree education in our university.
Chinese medicine is the excellent traditional culture of China, which has made great contribution to the multiplication and prosperity of Chinese nation. With Chinese medicine being gradually internationalized, it has entered more than 130 countries and regions, making important contribution to the health of people throughout the world. There are 16 ethnic groups in Yunnan living with the same foreign ethnic neighbors, with almost the same historical and cultural origins, sharing the same languages, customs and traditional medicine and they have a long history of cultural exchange due to the fact that Yunnan is adjacent to the countries of Southeast Asia and South Asia geographically. Therefore Yunnan is the intersectional enrichment area of Southwest China and neighboring countries in traditional medicines. With the worldwide rise of heat TCM, the demand for personnel in TCM continues to rise at both home and abroad. Under the circumstances, to choose the cause of TCM and to choose Yunnan University of TCM will unfold a whole new and promising page for your bright future life.
