Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, located in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, is a provincial institution of higher learning in Guangdong Province, one of the three largest pharmaceutical universities in China, the first institution of higher learning in South China to offer modern pharmaceutical education, and one of the three CMA measurement certification units in Guangdong Province. It has been selected into the national college students' cultural quality education base and the national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training program.

Member of Sino-Russian Medical University Alliance, leading unit of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Pharmaceutical Industry Collaborative Innovation Alliance and China Integrated Pharmacy Alliance. The school has now developed into a pharmaceutical institution of higher learning with medicine as the mainstay, the combination of medicine and medicine, the combination of medicine and production, and multidisciplinary development. Guangdong Health Cadre Training College, founded by 1958, started, and 1978 was upgraded to an ordinary undergraduate college, named Guangdong Medical College.

As of March 20, 2020, the school has five campuses, namely Guangzhou (University Town, Chigang and Baogang), Zhongshan and Yunfu, covering an area of nearly 5,300 mu. The school is located in Guangzhou University Town; There are 19 colleges (departments) and 2 directly affiliated tertiary hospitals; There are more than 22,000 full-time undergraduates, postgraduates and international students.