This university is not a school of Project 985 or Project 211.

The university is located in Zhanjiang City and Dongguan City, Guangdong Province. It is a provincial-level university with medical as its main features and covers 7 disciplines including medicine, science, management, law, engineering, liberal arts, and economics. It is a comprehensive general undergraduate higher education institution, a doctoral degree-granting unit, and a key construction university in Guangdong Province that “strengthens the first-rate, makes up for weaknesses and strengthens characteristics”.