Tianjin University of traditional Chinese medicine was founded in 1958, formerly known as Tianjin College of traditional Chinese medicine. In the 63 years since its establishment, the school has undergone several changes, and has continued to accumulate and develop in the inheritance and innovation. Moved to Hebei New Medical University in 1969; In 1978, Tianjin College of traditional Chinese medicine was restored and rebuilt; In 1992, the school plate of the International College of Chinese traditional medicine was added; In 2006, it was renamed Tianjin University of traditional Chinese medicine; In 2017, it was selected into the list of colleges and universities for the construction of "world-class disciplines"; In 2020, it will become a University jointly built by the Ministry of education, the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine and the Tianjin Municipal People's government. The school moved to tuanpo campus in 2018, covering an area of more than 2000 mu and a construction area of more than 600000 square meters. The campus is characterized by the lake landscape, marked by traditional Chinese medicine vegetation, and dominated by traditional Chinese medicine culture. It has a variety of traditional Chinese medicine botanical gardens with both ornamental and teaching purposes, an advanced traditional Chinese medicine science and Technology Park, and an international education center of traditional Chinese medicine with international influence.

The university has 11379 full-time undergraduates, 3768 postgraduates and 540 international students. The whole school (including the affiliated Academy) has 3879 teaching staff, including 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (one of whom is concurrently employed), 1 national medical master, 3 national famous traditional Chinese medicine, 1 winner of the Teaching Master Award, and has the leading talents of the national "ten thousand talents plan", the famous teachers of the national "ten thousand talents plan", the distinguished professors of the "Yangtze River scholars award plan", the winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, and the national model teachers A group of high-level talents such as famous teachers in Colleges and universities of traditional Chinese medicine. At present, there are 3 innovation teams of the Ministry of education, 2 innovation teams of the Ministry of science and technology, 1 national multidisciplinary innovation team of traditional Chinese medicine and 1 inheritance innovation team.

The school has 4 directly affiliated hospitals. The building area is about 564000 square meters, and the number of hospital beds is 4620. Among them, the First Affiliated Hospital has 30 national key disciplines (Specialties), which are the national top 100 hospitals, the national clinical research center of acupuncture and moxibustion of traditional Chinese medicine, the national regional diagnosis and treatment center of traditional Chinese medicine (6 specialties), the project unit of the national inheritance and innovation project of traditional Chinese medicine, the national clinical research base of traditional Chinese medicine for stroke and coronary heart disease, the national epidemic prevention and control team of traditional Chinese medicine and epidemic prevention and control base The national emergency medical rescue team and emergency medical rescue base of traditional Chinese medicine, the standardized training base of traditional Chinese medicine residents of the National Health Commission, the national key professional base of standardized training of traditional Chinese medicine residents, and the national comprehensive training base of high-level talents of traditional Chinese medicine. The Second Affiliated Hospital has 18 national key disciplines (Specialties) and 1 third-class Laboratory of the state central administration. It is the project unit of the national traditional Chinese Medicine Inheritance and innovation project and the National People's trust demonstration hospital. The Fourth Affiliated Hospital is a hospital jointly built by the people's Government of Binhai New Area and Tianjin University of traditional Chinese medicine, with 2 national key disciplines (junior colleges). The affiliated Baokang hospital is a designated medical insurance hospital characterized by experts, specialties, diseases and drugs. The school also has 6 non directly affiliated hospitals, 32 teaching hospitals, 2 internship hospitals and 5 community health practice bases.

The university has 16 Colleges (departments) and 6 disciplines, with traditional Chinese medicine as the main body, and the coordinated development of medicine, science, literature, management, engineering and education, with a total of 31 undergraduate majors, including 8 national first-class undergraduate majors, 3 national characteristic majors and 19 municipal key construction majors. It has national first-class disciplines of Chinese medicine, 2 national key disciplines of traditional Chinese medicine internal medicine and acupuncture and massage, 23 key disciplines of the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine, 9 key disciplines of Tianjin during the 13th five year plan, 2 first-class disciplines of Tianjin, and 3 advantageous and characteristic discipline groups. It has 3 post doctoral research stations of traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and integrated traditional and Western medicine, 3 first-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points of traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and integrated traditional and Western medicine, 16 second-class discipline doctoral degree authorization points, 1 doctor of traditional Chinese medicine professional degree authorization point, 6 first-class discipline master's degree authorization points, 26 second-class discipline master's degree authorization points, and 5 Master's professional degree authorization points. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation of the Ministry of education, traditional Chinese medicine a-, traditional Chinese medicine and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine b+; Pharmacology, toxicology and clinical medicine are among the top 1% of ESI.

The school takes talent training as the core. Taking the strategy of strengthening the country through service education and healthy China as the fundamental purpose, taking "doing fine medicine, strengthening pharmacy, strengthening health-related majors, and expanding social services" as the development strategy, conscientiously implementing the "people-oriented", actively promoting the "four returns", and striving to create a new situation of high-quality undergraduate education under the guidance of the "six excellence and one top-notch" plan 2.0. The school has 1 special prize, 3 first prizes and 2 second prizes of national teaching achievement awards; One special prize for national excellent teaching materials (Higher Education); 1 national teaching team; It has 7 national first-class courses, 6 national quality resource sharing courses, 1 national bilingual teaching demonstration course, 1 national ideological and political demonstration course, 1 national ideological and political teaching teacher and 1 teaching team; There are 3 pilot projects for the reform of the education and training plan of excellent doctors (traditional Chinese Medicine), 2 research and practice projects of "new engineering", 1 base for the training plan of top-notch students in basic disciplines, 1 pilot project for the comprehensive reform of national majors, 2 National Talent Training Mode Innovation experimental zones, 2 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 1 National virtual simulation experiment teaching center, and 2 National virtual simulation experiment projects, One national off campus practical education base for college students, and won two gold awards in the professional track of the national medical technology skills competition for college students.

The school takes scientific research as its advantage. Focus on building a world power in science and technology and achieving high-level self-reliance in science and technology, adhere to the "four aspects", give full play to the leading role of scientific and technological innovation, and strengthen the integration of innovation chain and industrial chain. Now it has the National Research Center of traditional Chinese medicine (acupuncture) clinical medicine, the State Key Laboratory of component traditional Chinese medicine, the National International Joint Research Center - Sino Italian joint laboratory of traditional Chinese medicine, the innovative talent training demonstration base of the innovative talent promotion plan of the Ministry of science and technology, the national and local co construction of modern traditional Chinese Medicine Innovation Center, the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of pharmacy education, the engineering research center of the Ministry of education for modern traditional Chinese medicine discovery and preparation technology A number of high-level scientific research and innovation platforms at the national, provincial and ministerial levels, such as the collaborative innovation center of modern traditional Chinese medicine jointly built by provinces and ministries, the Key Laboratory of evidence-based evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine of the State Food and drug administration, etc. In the past three years, more than 500 vertical scientific research projects have been added, with a funding of more than 360 million yuan. In recent years, it has won a number of landmark achievements, including 2 first prizes and 11 second prizes of the national science and Technology Progress Award; There are 1 provincial and ministerial science and technology major achievement award, 2 special awards for scientific and technological progress, and 9 first prizes. The State Key Laboratory of traditional Chinese medicine ingredients was awarded the "national advanced collective in combating the COVID-19", which has made an important contribution to the formation of a characteristic treatment scheme of traditional Chinese medicine. Xuanfei Baidu granule was successfully developed, included in the "three drugs and three prescriptions" recommended by the state, and completed the research and development of new drugs and was successfully transformed.

The school is characterized by foreign education in traditional Chinese medicine. The international education, exchange and cooperation of the school began in the 1980s. As the chairman unit of the Education Steering Committee of the World Federation of traditional Chinese Medicine Societies, the world undergraduate (pre CMD) education standard of traditional Chinese medicine has been officially released by the World Federation of traditional Chinese Medicine Societies, becoming the first international standard of traditional Chinese medicine education in the world. The world core curriculum of traditional Chinese medicine and the syllabus of the world core curriculum of traditional Chinese medicine were formulated, and the World Core Curriculum Textbook of traditional Chinese medicine was compiled, which clarified the connotation of the world traditional Chinese medicine specialty and standardized the teaching content of the core curriculum. The school is the "education aid base" of the Ministry of education, the "China ASEAN education and training center" of the Ministry of education and the Ministry of foreign affairs, the "international cooperation base of traditional Chinese medicine" of the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine and the "first batch of special construction units for international cooperation of traditional Chinese medicine", and the "the Belt and Road" traditional Chinese medicine education teacher training base of the World Federation of China (Tianjin). It has cooperated with the Chinese foreign humanities exchange center of the Ministry of education to jointly build the "Chinese foreign humanities Exchange Research Institute of traditional Chinese medicine", was selected into the "2020 Chinese foreign humanities exchange talent training base in the field of Intelligent Manufacturing" of the Chinese foreign humanities exchange center of the Ministry of Education to prepare for the establishment of cooperative colleges and universities, was selected into the first batch of "national traditional Chinese medicine service export base" of the Ministry of Commerce and the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine, and won the "2019 excellent China ASEAN education and training center" award, Explore the new mode of "Internet + traditional Chinese medicine" service trade, and successfully selected as the demonstration case of business innovation of 2020 China International Trade in services Fair. The university is the only Chinese Medicine University in the "20+20 cooperation plan between Chinese and African universities" project of the Ministry of education. In 2008, the school established the world's first Confucius Classroom of traditional Chinese medicine, the Confucius Classroom of Toyo Medical Institute in Kobe, Japan, and in 2016, the first Confucius Institute of traditional Chinese medicine in Thailand, the Confucius Institute of traditional Chinese medicine at Chongsheng University of overseas Chinese in Thailand. The school has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 40 countries and regions in the world. The Sino foreign cooperative school running project of clinical pharmacy undergraduate jointly held with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom won the nomination of the best international cooperation project of the "times higher education Award", and the international education cooperation between the two universities was listed as one of the national strategic cooperation in the health field between China and the United Kingdom.

The University adheres to the motto of "promoting virtue, cultivating career, inheriting innovation", takes "inheritance and innovation are coordinated, scientific research and service are carried out simultaneously, quality is the connotation, and comprehensive and coordinated development" as the development policy, and takes "doing fine medicine, strengthening pharmacy, strengthening health-related Majors, and expanding social services" as the development strategy, and strives to build a world-class university of traditional Chinese medicine with Chinese characteristics.