China Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College are a unit with two brands. They are affiliated to six affiliated hospitals, including Union Medical College Hospital, Cancer Hospital, Fuwai Hospital, Hematology Hospital, Plastic Surgery Hospital and Dermatology Hospital, as well as several other research institutes.

Now it has been integrated with Peking Union Medical College, which is more like a university directly under National Health Commission than an independent academic institution.

China Academy of Medical Sciences is the medical branch of the National Science and Technology Library and the WHO Health and Biomedical Information Cooperation Center, which undertakes the tasks of medical information resource construction and knowledge service, medical information research, medical science and technology information and strategy research, health policy research and information dissemination.

It can be understood as a medical university, which also determines its status is completely different from that of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. A simpler understanding is that the Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Health Commission are at the same level (ministerial level).

China Academy of Medical Sciences/Peking Union Medical College (deputy ministerial level) belongs to National Health Commission (ministerial level), which is one level lower than the administrative level of Chinese Academy of Sciences and similar to those universities directly under the Ministry of Education (ministerial level). Naturally, it is impossible to be as independent as the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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The Institute of Medical Information of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences is one of the 19 research institutions under China Academy of Medical Sciences/Peking Union Medical College, which implements the integrated development of research institutes and libraries. The Institute of Information is a national medical information research, medical information resource guarantee and service institution, and exercises the functions of the National Medical Library.

China Academy of Medical Sciences is the medical branch of the National Science and Technology Library and the WHO Health and Biomedical Information Cooperation Center, which undertakes the tasks of medical information resource construction and knowledge service, medical information research, medical science and technology information and strategy research, health policy research and information dissemination.

Since the establishment of China Academy of Medical Sciences, Information Institute has provided important decision support and information support for the reform and development of medical and health undertakings and the innovation and development of medical science and technology in China.