Hainan Medical College is the only public medical college in China Hainan Free Trade Port. Its predecessor was Haiqiang Medical Technology School founded by 1947 and private medical college of Hainan University founded by 1948. Located in Haikou City, the capital of Hainan Province, it is the first batch of national excellent doctoral education and training program pilot universities, the first batch of professional comprehensive reform pilot undergraduate colleges of the Ministry of Education and the first batch of educational informatization pilot units.
The school has established cooperative relations with famous universities at home and abroad, such as University of Nebraska, university of basel, National University of Singapore, Mahidol University in Thailand, Hong Kong University, Medical College of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Zhongshan Medical College of Sun Yat-sen University and Nanjing Medical University. And jointly established the International Center for Aging and Cancer Research with Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation of the United States and Shanghai Ruijin Hospital. The Sino-foreign cooperative education project with the University of the West of England has been officially launched. With 120 universities and scientific research institutions from 27 countries and regions, the "Belt and Road" tropical medicine alliance has been established, and three tropical medicine summit forums have been held.