Hebei Medical University, located in Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province, is a provincial-level backbone university with a hundred-year history and excellent medical education tradition. It is a university jointly established by the People's Government of Hebei Province, the National Health and Family Planning Commission and the Ministry of Education.
Its predecessor was 1894 Beiyang Medical College approved by the Qing government. 1In May, 1995, Hebei Medical College, Hebei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Shijiazhuang Medical College merged to form a new Hebei Medical University, which is a basic capacity-building engineering university among universities in the central and western regions.