Guangxi Medical University, founded on 21st November 1934, is located in the ‘Green City’ Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and covers an area of more than 70 square meters. The school is currently preparing the new campus which will cover an area of more than 666.67 square meters (one of the key projects of ‘ second Five-Year plan’ of Guangxi Government education planning). It was formerly Guangxi Provincial Medical collage. In 1940, the school site moved to Guilin. Before 1949, during the war, the school migrated seven times and changed the name for three times. In November 1949, its name changed to Guangxi Province Medical School. In 1952, the Central Health Ministry entrusted Zhongnan health to lead the school directly. In April 1953, the Central Ministry of Health approved the name of Guangxi Medical College. In July 1954, the school moved from Guilin to Nanning, where it’s located till now. In May 1996, the Ministry of Education approval renamed Guangxi Medical University.

The school is one of the earliest 22 medical institutes in China, and one of the 8 firstly accredited medical institutes by government to enroll international students and students from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese for her comprehensive qualified English curriculum recognized as one of the first approved 30 high institutes. Located in the city of Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, GXMU is one of the key prestigious universities in Guangxi and also a base for medical education, medical research as well as clinical and preventive medicine.