In May of 20021year, the Ministry of Education publicized the Notice on Agreeing to Upgrade Guilin Medical College to an Undergraduate General Medical College, and agreed to rename Guilin Medical College as Guilin Medical University. Guilin Medical College was founded in 1935, formerly known as the First Medical College of Guangxi Province.

In 2003, it was upgraded to an undergraduate university. After years of development, it has become a comprehensive university covering medicine, science, management, law, literature and other disciplines. Renaming Guilin Medical College is a new starting point for the development of the school. The renaming of Guilin Medical College shows that the strength of the school has been more recognized and improved.

After the name change, the school will continue to run schools with medical characteristics, strengthen discipline construction and personnel training, further improve the level of education, teaching and scientific research, train more high-quality medical talents, and make greater contributions to local economic and social development.

With the renaming of Guilin Medical College, the school will further strengthen exchanges and cooperation with well-known medical colleges and research institutions at home and abroad, introduce high-quality educational resources and advanced educational concepts, continuously promote the reform and innovation of medical education, and build a high-level medical university with international competitiveness.

The renaming of Guilin Medical College fully reflects the strength and development potential of the school and has been recognized by all sectors of society. After the name change, the school will continue to run schools with medical characteristics, strengthen discipline construction and personnel training, improve the teaching level and scientific research level, and make greater contributions to local economic and social development in the future development.

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Guilin Medical College, referred to as "Guiyi" for short, is located in Guilin, a world-famous scenic city in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It has been selected into the first batch of "Excellent Doctoral Education and Training Program" of the Ministry of Education, the national high-level university graduate program, the national college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training program and the national high-level university graduate program.