Ningxia Medical University (NMU)

Ningxia Medical University (NMU) is a regional comprehensive university Located in Yinchuan, the capital city of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, co-administrated by Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.

The school was founded in 1958. In the end of 1997, Ningxia Institute of Technology and Yinchuan Normal College (including Ningxia Education College) were merged into the University. In February 2002, it was merged with Ningxia Agricultural College, and formed the new Ningxia University.

Ningxia Medical University consists of 17 secondary schools, 10 teaching & scientific research assistant departments, 11 affiliated hospitals, 59 teaching hospitals and training hospitals. It has 17 undergraduate majors and 5 nation-leveled characteristic specialties; 3 first level disciplines conferring the Doctor’s Degree, 8 first-level disciplines conferring the Master’s Degree. There are 5660 teaching staffs and health care workers in Ningxia Medical University, and 30.48% of them have doctor degree. More than half of the instructors hold intermediate to senior titles, 52% of them with masters or doctors degrees. 15 teachers receives special subsidies of the State Council, and 17 were elected into “National Hundreds, Thousands, Tens of Thousands Experts Project”. It enrolls more than 15,000 undergraduates and over 1,300 graduates. More than 600 are minority preparatory students. At present, there are over 26,000 students in the university, including 9376 full-time students, 1256 postgraduates, and more than 200 international students coming from Korea, India, Nepal, and Bangladesh, etc. It currently comprises three campuses.

Ningxia Medical University has started international students’ short-term education since the year of 1993. In 2005, the university has started the specialty of Clinical Medicine taught in English for the international students. With the authorization of China’s Ministry of Education for enrolling international students of Ningxia Medical University, it will further enhance its international education work and it will provide a convenient and comfortable living and study environment for international students.

Yinchuan

Yinchuan is the capital of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China,[3] and former capital of the Western Xia Empire of the Tanguts. It has an area of 4,467 km (2,776 mi) and a total population of 1.99 million. Its built up area is home to 1,290,170 inhabitants spread on 3 urban districts. The name of the city literally means “silver river”; the character for “river” is the same as that in Sichuan, but not as those in, for example, the Yellow River

Tourism

The city’s attractions include the Sand-lake and the Western Xia tombs. Sand Lake is 35 miles north of Yinchuan. Being a world of desert and lake, it is an ideal place for bird watching, sand slide and cableway slide. Appreciating reeds, lotus and fish are also popular. The Western Xia Imperial Tombs are 15.5 miles west of Yinchuan on east side of Mt. Helan. Since June 1972, nine imperial tombs and 253 lesser tombs have been unearthed, which are as grand as Ming Tombs in Beijing. With a total area of more than 19.3 square miles, it is unique among royal burials.

There are two pagodas in Yinchuan that are part of the ‘Eight Famous Scenery of Ningxia’: one is the Haibao Pagoda in the northern suburb and the other is the Chengtiansi Pagoda in the west.

Since 2000, Yinchuan has hosted the annual Yinchuan International Car and Motorcycle Tourism Festival, which usually occurs in August. It is the largest event of its kind in China; approximately 3000 motorcycles attend annually.

It is also possible to see parts of the Great Wall which are located near the city.

Transportation

• Yinchuan is located near the western bank of the upper course of the Yellow River, near the western end of the Great Wall of China in the south-central section of the Helan Shan and Ordos Desert.


• It is served by Yinchuan Hedong Airport. It is 25 km (16 mi) from Yinchuan and has flights to Beijing, Chengdu, Dunhuang, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Xian, and Zhengzhou.


• It is served by a river port at Hengcheng, about 15 km (9.3 mi) to the east. Until the 1950s the river, which is navigable downstream as far as Baotou in the Inner Mongolian autonomous region and upstream to Zhongwei and Zhongning, was the chief communication link.


• Highways also link the city to Baotou along the river, to Lanzhou in Gansu province to the southwest, to Wuwei in Gansu to the west, and to Xi’an in Shaanxi province to the southeast.


• Since 1958 the city has been on the railway from Lanzhou to Baotou and is thus linked to other parts of China by rail.


• China National Highway 211


• G69 Yinchuan–Baise Expressway

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