Second Military Medical University

The People's Liberation Army Naval Medical University (中国人民解放军海军军医大学), also known as the PLA Second Military Medical University (SMMU) (中国人民解放军第二军医大学), is a public university in Shanghai, China. It was founded in September 1949 and named in July 1951. It is a national key university supported by the state Project 211. It is a Chinese Ministry of Education Double First Class Discipline University, with Double First Class status in certain disciplines.[1]

People's Liberation Army Naval Medical University
中国人民解放军海军军医大学
Former names
People's Medical College of the East China Military Commanding Region
Typepublic university
EstablishedSeptember 1949
AffiliationPeople's Liberation Army Navy
Location,
China
CampusUrban area 670,000 square metres (7,211,820 sq ft)
Websitehttp://www.smmu.edu.cn/

It was previously called People's Medical College of the East China Military Commanding Region. The building is adjacent to Fudan University and Tongji University and covers an area of nearly 1.1 square kilometres (270 acres). The premises have a total floor space of over 670,000 square metres (7,211,820 sq ft), including a complex of modern teaching buildings, a library, an experiment building and teaching hospitals of the first rate in China. The library itself covers an area over 11,000 square metres (118,403 sq ft) with a collection of over 500,000 book volumes.

Affiliated hospitals

  • Changhai Hospital
  • Changzheng Hospital
  • Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital

References

  1. "教育部 财政部 国家发展改革委 关于公布世界一流大学和一流学科建设高校及建设 学科名单的通知" [Notice from the Ministry of Education and other national governmental departments announcing the list of double first class universities and disciplines]. Ministry of Education.


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