The address of Southern Medical University is Shatai South Road 1023- 1063, Baiyun District, Guangzhou. According to Baidu map, Southern Medical University was formerly the First Military Medical University of the People's Liberation Army, founded in 195 1 year, and 1979 was identified as a national key university. In August 2004, it was handed over to Guangdong Province as a whole. The school is the only medical college among the first batch of five provincial-level high-level universities in Guangdong Province, the first batch of medical colleges set up by "ministries" in China, one of the first batch of eight universities offering eight-year clinical medicine (bachelor's degree and doctoral degree joint study), and the first batch of pilot universities training excellent doctors and excellent doctors (Chinese medicine) in China. The school has been selected as one of the top 500 universities in Times Higher Education for three consecutive years, and will rank among the top 400 universities in the world in 2023.