Neither. According to Xi 'an Medical University, Xi 'an Medical College is the only two independent western medicine colleges in Shaanxi Province, aiming to become a first-class teaching and research medical university in northwest China. According to the "three-step" development strategy put forward by the school on 20 17, the first step is to obtain the right to grant master's degrees in the next five years and build it into a teaching-oriented medical college with distinctive characteristics and high level in Shaanxi; The second step is to change its name to "Northwest Medical University" and build it into a high-level teaching medical university in Northwest China. The third step is to obtain the right to confer doctoral degrees by the 0/00th anniversary of the founding of the school/KLOC-and build it into a first-class teaching and research-oriented medical university in northwest China.