Located in the south bank of Qiantang River, a famous historical and cultural city in Zhejiang Province, it faces the national scenic spot "Pagoda of Six Harmonies" across the river. The school's predecessor was Zhejiang Chinese Medicine School, which was founded in July 1953. 1June, 959, Zhejiang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine was formally established, located in the former site of Zhejiang University on Chun Qing Road, Hangzhou. In March 2000, the whole school moved to its present address. In February 2006, it was renamed Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Since the school was founded, teachers and students have been adhering to the spirit of "seeking for the long term", following the laws of higher education, emancipating their minds, renewing their concepts, innovating models and pioneering. The school has achieved leap-forward development, and now it has become a provincial university with coordinated development of Chinese medicine, medicine, science, engineering, management and literature, and has certain influence both inside and outside the province. The school has been granted the right to 1978 master's degree, 1987 enrollment right in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and 1998 doctor's degree, and has become the work unit for employees to apply for master's degree. In 2000, a seven-year program of traditional Chinese medicine was established, and it became a pilot work unit for the professional degree of master of medicine. 200 1 won the first batch of excellent evaluation of random level of undergraduate teaching by the Ministry of Education. In 2003, the Post-Doctoral Research Center of Traditional Chinese Medicine was established, and it was approved as a work unit for college teachers to study for master's degree. In 2006, it was suggested that outstanding undergraduate graduates should not take the master's degree. In 2007, the basic clinical discipline of TCM became a national key discipline, and researcher Li Dapeng was elected as an academician of China Academy of Engineering. In 2008, it was rated as excellent in undergraduate teaching by the Ministry of Education.