An exterior of Hubei University of Chinese Medicine. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

HUCM has previously carried out academic exchanges with more than 70 universities and academic organizations of the countries along the Silk Road and from other parts of the world. For HUCM, a solid foundation of international cooperation has been laid and a brand-new picture is just unfolding.

The university has been committed to offering international education for overseas students and education services for students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

It started to recruit students out of the Chinese mainland in 1986 and has been dubbed the university with the largest number of exchange students in Hubei Province.

In 1993, it ranked among the first universities offering TCM, in which it trained overseas students and accepted Hong Kong students without an entrance examination. Currently, there are more than 500 exchange students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and other countries, especially Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Vietnam and Thailand.

The number of students under the education program jointly funded by China and foreign countries has amounted to nearly 300. HUCM has built good cooperative relations with many Asian, European and American universities.

In August, Karim Massimov, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan and his delegation paid a visit to Hubei province. During the visit, HUCM' specially-arranged medical team took full charge of the delegation’s medical care and their superb medical skills and caring service were highly praised. The delegation claimed that they were willing to learn TCM from China and strengthen the bilateral cooperation in the field of traditional medicine in the next phase.

The authors are faculty members with School of Foreign Languages, Hubei University of Chinese Medicine.