Anhui University of TCM was set up in 1959 and is located in Hefei-the capital city of Anhui province. The Medical University is one of the first higher education institutions established in China and also the only one in Anhui province that fosters the senior talents majoring in Chinese medicine and Western medicine. With forty-five years of developments, the Medical University has become a major base for the higher education of Chinese Medicine, Western Medicine, scientific research and international exchanges and cooperation in the province, even in the whole country. It also touches the fields of technology, engineering, management and economics. The Medical University in china has 7 schools or departments offering 3 key courses of provincial level, one key course of national level, 16 Masters degree courses, 4 bases for cultivating the doctorate students cooperating with other medical universities, one key laboratory of provincial level, 2 affiliated hospitals of provincial level, one Chinese clinic and one hospital specialized in Chinese and Western medicine combined. There are nearly 8,000 students in the university. It has a completely qualified faculty, 300 of whom are professors or associate professors and 100 of whom are entitled to supervise students studying for a Masters or PhD degrees. There are more than 300,000 volumes of books in the library, which has an e-reading room with 200 booths.