Founded in 1956 and located in Nanning, the capital city of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the south of China, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine (GXTCM) is a higher educational institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine with the integration of education, scientific research, medical treatment and patent medicine production.

There are more than 15,000 students and over 2,600 teaching and medical staff in the university.

Affiliated with the university there are five hospitals, one pharmaceutical factory, one TCM school, nine research institutes and a clinical cooperation with over twenty other hospitals.

In 2003, after an assessment conducted by the Ministry of Education the GXTCM was ranked as "excellent" in the field of undergraduate education.

GXTCM is among the earliest higher educational institutions approved to admit students from abroad by the Chinese Ministry of Education and is authorized to confer masters and bachelor degrees.

In recent years, it has educated more than 800 students and physicians from over twenty countries including Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland,USA, UK, Vietnam, etc.