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). Central South University was formed in April 2000 by the merger of Hunan Medical University, Changsha Railway Institute and Central South University of Technology.
The former Central South University of Technology was formerly known as Central South Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, founded in 1952, and the former Changsha Railway Institute was formerly known as Central South Institute of Architecture and Engineering, founded in 1953. The main disciplines of the two universities can be traced back to the course of Mining and Road in Hunan Higher Institute of Technology founded by 1903. Hunan Medical University, formerly known as Xiangya Medical College, was founded in 19 14 and is one of the earliest institutions of higher learning in western medicine in China.
"Diligence, preciseness, unity and enterprising" is the school motto. Zhang, Tang, Ying, Li Zhenpian, Xie Shaowen, Long Bojian and many other famous doctors have been trained successively. Xiangya Medical College has trained more than 20 academicians, including Liu Depei, Bao, Li Ao and Xia Jiahui. Xiangya people have written half of the history of western medicine in China.