Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (LNUTCM) was established in 1958 as Liaoning College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.Approved by the Liaoning Provincial Committee, Liaoning TCM Training School (established in 1955) and Liaoning TCM Hospital (established in 1956) combined into the present Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (LNUTCM). And it is the only institution of higher education in traditional Chinese medicine in Liaoning Province.  In 2006, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the University was renamed “Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine”, the present name. In 2013, LNUTCM added the new title of “Liaoning Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine” with the approval of Liaoning Provincial Government. LNUTCM led to establish “Liaoning TCM Health Industry School-Enterprise Alliance” in 2017 and “Liaoning Institute of Technological Innovation in Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry” in 2019, and in 2020 LNUTCM set up the “Liaoning Provincial Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine”.LNUTCM is one of the first universities to confer doctoral and master's degrees, one of the first universities qualified to receive foreign students, and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and one of the first universities entrusted with the cultivation of the “Silk Road” Chinese government scholarship program. Also, LNUTCM is among the list of the first national TCM service export bases, the first national TCM clinical research bases and ranks among National Basic Ability Construction Project of Western and Central China list and the first batch of national TCM literature search sub-center. And the University is also among the first “preventing disease ”prevention and health care services pilot units of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine

 Party Building and Honors

Conscientiously implementing the Party’s education policy,firmly grasping the direction of socialist education, Focusing on the fundamental task of “fostering moral integrity and educating people ”, the Party Committee of LNUTCM cultivates socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development in moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic aspects. Adhering to the spirit of “inheriting the essence, keeping the innovation” and the “student-centered ” concept , LNUTCM   closely combines the characteristics of TCM with Party building, with the leadership of the Party, LNUTCM has established the“nurturing the root and soul of the nation under the leadership of the Party, focusing on the central task and serving the overall interests”work pattern. LNUTCM has received many honors successively, such as the National Advanced Grassroots Organization of CCP in the Campaign of Contending for Excellence, the National Advanced Collective of the Educational System in Discipline Inspection, the National Civilized Unit, the National May First Labor Award, the National Advanced Collective in Health and Family Planning System, the Advanced Grassroots Party Organization of Liaoning Province, the Advanced Collective of Liaoning Province, Model University of Party Building Work in the New Era of Liaoning Province, University with Leifeng Spirit of Liaoning Education System, the May First Labor Award of Liaoning Province, Pioneer Workers of Liaoning Province, the Advanced Party Committee of Liaoning Educational System, the Advanced Collective of Liaoning Educational System, the Civilized Unit, Civilized Campus and Safe Campus of Liaoning Province as well as other awards.