Located in Wuhan (now the former site of Hubei University of Traditional Chinese Medicine), the private Chinese University in Wuchang, referred to as Zhonghua University for short, is the first private university independently established in China without relying on the government and foreigners. It combined the educational tradition of setting up private schools in ancient China with the university systems in modern Japan, Europe and America, and created a higher education model in line with the national conditions of modern China. Zhongnan University of Finance and Economics (now Zhongnan University of Economics and Law) is a merger of China University, Chung Yuan Christian University and Wuhan University. Other departments merged into Wuhan University.