General Situation of the University

Shenyang Pharmaceutical University is a university with glorious revolutionary traditions and was born at Ruijin, Jiangxi Province in 1931. It grew out of the Medical School of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants Red Army. Now it is situated on the banks of the Hun River in Shenyang. It was formerly subordinate to the State Pharmaceutical Administration of the People’s Republic of China and is one of the two comprehensive pharmaceutical universities. From February, 2000 it was put under the leadership of the People’s Government of Liaoning Province.

Now Shenyang Pharmaceutical University covers an area of more than 220000m2 and its building area is 180000m2. The university has a staff of 846, among them there are 342 full-time teachers.

At present the University has developed into a multidisciplinary, multilevel and multiform pharmaceutical institute of higher learning. It consists of Schools of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Traditional Chinese Medicines, Business Administration, Basic Courses and Adult Education. The University has been authorized to confer Master’s and Doctor’s Degrees and to enroll students from areas of Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, foreign countries and recommended students from senior middle schools for admission to the University as well. In 1996 with the approval of the State Education Commission of China, the University began to run a “National Training Base for Science Talents of Basic Science and Research and of Science Teaching” as an experiment. There is 1 postdoctoral scientific research center for pharmacy, 1 doctor’s dergee-conferring unit of the first class of disciplines, 6 doctor’s degree-conferring units of the second class of disciplines, 8 master’s degree-conerring units, 9 specialities of undergraduate courses. The English class of pharmacy and the Japanese class of pharmacy(with a 5-year period of schooling) are a speciality which has greater influcence at home. At the University specialities of the pharmacy class are complete. Pharmaceutics is the only national key discipline and the specialities of medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical analysis are provincial key disciplines. Now the total students of all levels are more than 7000.

At the University there is an Institute of Materia Medica, an Institute of Pharmaceutical Education of Higher Learning, a computer center, an audio-visual education programme center, a center of instrumental analysis, a botanic garden of medicinal herbs, a subsidiary pharmaceutical factory, etc. The National Medicine Engineering & Technique Research Center of the Former SPAC and the Laboratory of Pharmacokinetics and Drug Matabolism were all set up at the University. The University is an important component unit of The Engineering Technique Center of the National Patent Medicines and the Shenyang National New Drug Safety Evaluation Center.

There is one academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, over 170 professors and associate professors(nearly 1/4 of them are personnel studying abroad, nearly 20 of them have gained doctor’s degrees abroad). They enjoy higher prestige at home and abroad. Some of them are holding important posts. For example, the leader of the appraisal group of pharmacy of the academic degree committee of the State Council, the convener of the first medical expert group of the national postdoctor’s management committee, a member of the standing experts’ committee of new drug research of the State Science and Technology Commission, a consultant of the “Industrial Development Organization of the United Nations”, an appraisal member of the National Prize for the Development of Science and Technology, a member of the Commission of the State Pharmacopoeia, etc. The University has trained nearly 20000 senior talents of pharmacy and pharmaceutical engineering. They are scattered all over China. Some of them have become well-known experts, scholars, enterprisers and outstanding leaders.

There is dense academic atmosphere in the University and active scientific research work. In the field of the theory research and practice of new dosage forms of pharmaceutical preparations-polyphase liposomes and solid preparations, in the field of research on chemical componenls and search for active components of traditional Chinese medicines and natural drugs, in the field of distinguishment of chemical models or chemical models of the quality of traditional Chinese medicines and the study on their quality control, all the achievements are in the lead at home, more than 3000 academic papers have been published. This had brought great influence internationally. In recent years hundreds of questions for study from the State, Province or City have been completed. The University has gained hundreds of national, provincial and ministry prizes of development of science and technology. It has also gained more than 50 certificates of new drugs. Some research results have brought outstanding economical and social benifit.

The instruments of the University are advanced and the books in the library are plentiful. The University possesses modern, high-grade precision instruments for teaching and studies, e.g. NMRLC-MS and LC-MS-MS. The building area of the library is 11000m2 and a collection of over 26000 books, over 2300 kinds of important magazines and periodicals. Now a computer search system has been set up. Teachers and students can learn the latest scientific and technical information very quickly via the Internet.

The University actively develops internal and international academic exchange and collaborations. At home the University has signed cooperative agreements for running Schools with Jilin University and China Medical University to achieve common use of the resourses and supplement superiority of each other, cross diciplines and develop commonly. The University has also established friendly intercollegiate relationship with over 20 countries and areas, including America, Japan, Britain, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc. In February 1997 Tokyo University signed intercollogiate cooperative relationship with our university. In the field of training talents and academic exchange, etc. cooperation will be carried out. Our University has become the fifth university which signed the agreement after Beijing University, Chinghua University, Fudan University, China Science and Technology University.

The University insists on the spirit of the university instructions “Be united and diligent, Be practical and dedicative”, bases ourselves upon Liaoning Pvovince, serves the whole country and strives for the establishment of a teaching and scientific research type of a university which suits the need of development of our country, pharmaceutical economy, had distingquishing features, makes focal points stand out and enjoys better quality and prominent benefit.