Harbin Medical University, located in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, is one of the first universities in the Ministry of Education to pilot seven-year higher medical education. It is a provincial university, a high-level university in Heilongjiang Province, a university with advantages and characteristics, a national "Basic Capacity Building Project for Central and Western Universities" and a pilot university of the Ministry of Education's "Excellent Doctoral Education and Training Plan".

The state builds high-level universities, implements public postgraduate programs, builds universities under the national "key discipline project", builds national basic scientific research and teaching talent training bases, reforms pilot universities of postgraduate training mode of medical master's degree, Heilongjiang Higher Medical Education Research Base, and the Chinese lead unit of the Sino-Russian Medical University Alliance. ?

The school's predecessor was Harbin Medical College founded by Dr. Lian Dewu in September 1926 and Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army Health School founded in Ruijin, Jiangxi in October 19365438. 1April, 949, it was formed by the former Harbin Medical University and the first and second branches of the former Xingshan (now Hegang) China Medical University.