Central South University, located in Changsha, Hunan Province, is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). Directly under the central and deputy ministerial system. Central South University, which was ranked among the national "Double First Class", "985 Project" and "21Project" and selected as the national "2065438+", was formed by the merger of Hunan Medical University, Changsha Railway Institute and Central South University of Technology in April 2000. It is one of the earliest institutions of higher learning of western medicine in China.