On the afternoon of February 10, 2023, Gannan Medical College held a mobilization meeting to rename Gannan Medical College as Gannan Medical University in the Golden Campus. Zhang Xiaokang, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and president of the school, attended the meeting and made a mobilization speech. Zeng Zexin, deputy secretary of the Party Committee, presided over the meeting, and Huang, member of the Party Committee and vice president, deployed the key tasks of the recent school renaming work.
Zhang Xiaokang pointed out that it is the long-cherished wish of several generations of Jiangxi doctors to change the name of the university, which is of great milestone significance in promoting the construction of high-level applied medical universities. The whole school should further unify its thinking, strengthen its confidence, concentrate on all the preparations for the renaming of colleges and universities, and ensure that the expert group of the evaluation Committee for the establishment of ordinary colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education will be inspected with excellent results and full preparation.
School profile:
Gannan Medical College is a full-time undergraduate general medical college organized by the Jiangxi Provincial People's Government. It is a "double-class" construction university in Jiangxi Province focusing on medicine, science and engineering, and is the founding director of the "Belt and Road" international medical education alliance. The school is located in Ganzhou, with Li Gongjin, Party Secretary, and Zhang Xiaokang, President. The school motto is "Stand firm, be realistic and innovative".
As of September, 2022, the school has a total area of 1873 mu, with two campuses in Gold and Zhanggong, and 30 undergraduate majors, including 2 national specialties, 2 national first-class undergraduate majors, 8 first-class undergraduate majors in Jiangxi Province, 4 university specialty majors in Jiangxi Province, 2 first-class disciplines in Jiangxi Province, 5 master's degree authorization points, and the Ministry of Education.