The historical evolution of Gansu Medical College:
The predecessor of Gansu Medical College was the Pingliang District Health School established in 1958. It has nearly 50 years of technical secondary school and 15 years of medical specialty. Educational History.
In 1997, Pingliang Health School won the title of “Provincial (Ministerial) Key Technical Secondary School”.
In 2001, it was approved as a “National Key Technical Secondary School” by the Ministry of Education.
In April 2003, it was upgraded to a junior college.
In February 2015, it was upgraded to an undergraduate school and renamed Gansu Medical College.
The college currently has 2 directly affiliated hospitals, among which the Affiliated Hospital of Gansu Medical College (formerly Pingliang People’s Hospital) is a third-class A hospital, and the Second Affiliated Hospital (formerly Pingliang Second People’s Hospital) is As a tertiary B hospital, the college also has 10 non-directly affiliated hospitals and 80 teaching practice bases inside and outside the province, including Lanzhou Army General Hospital, Lanzhou University First Hospital, and Lanzhou University Second Hospital. It has the Gansu Provincial General Medical Training Branch Center and the 11th National Vocational Skills Appraisal Institute of Pingliang City.
Before upgrading to bachelor’s degree, the school’s liberal arts and sciences admissions scores were on average about 150 points higher than the admissions standards for higher vocational colleges in Gansu Province, ranking among the top among higher vocational colleges in the province; new student registration rate The annual average remains above 95%, and the graduate employment rate remains above 89.3% annually. The graduate employment rate ranks first among the province's higher vocational colleges, forming a benign mechanism of "smooth exports and prosperous imports" .
The college has successively won the titles of "National Advanced Unit of Health and Civilization", "First Place in Gansu Province Nursing Graduation Unified Examination", "Gansu Province Red Cross Advanced Collective", "Provincial Civilized Unit", "Gansu Province "Advanced Collective in Employment Work" and other provincial and national honorary titles. Zhang Xiao, a national moral model of "filial piety and love for relatives", and advanced models such as "the most beautiful angels in white" Chen Fengjuan and Niu Xuelian have emerged, further enhancing the influence of the college in the province and even the country.