Introduction to Fujian Health College

Fujian Health College is a public full-time general higher education institution approved by the People's Government of Fujian Province and registered with the Ministry of Education. It is a Fujian Provincial Model Modern Higher Vocational College, a unit included in the first and second phases of the High-Level Vocational Colleges and Majors Program, a vice-chairman unit of the Public Health Management Specialty Committee and chairman unit of the Preventive Medicine Subcommittee of the National Health Vocational Education Teaching Steering Committee, and secretary-general unit of the Fujian Medical and Health Industry Vocational Education Steering Committee.Founded in 2005 through the merger of Fujian Health School and Fuzhou Health School, the college traces its history back to 1888. It was one of the first nursing schools registered by the Chinese Nurses Association, an origin of modern nursing education in China, one of the first higher vocational colleges in China to offer the preventive medicine major, and the earliest training base for pharmacy and medical laboratory professionals in Fujian Province.

The college currently has 30 internal institutions, including 14 party and government administrative offices, 9 teaching institutions, and 3 auxiliary teaching institutions. It offers 35 majors and has built 5 professional clusters, with more than 13,000 full-time students. There are 700 full-time teachers, including 241 with senior professional titles and 37 with doctoral degrees. The college has 38 on-campus training bases, including 4 national-level and 4 provincial-level ones, and 205 off-campus practice bases, including 4 affiliated hospitals and 41 teaching hospitals.Adhering to the school-running orientation of “rooted in Fujian, serving the whole country, and supporting the Belt and Road Initiative”, the college follows the philosophy of “Professional Excellence and Moral Integrity, Synergy between Medicine and Education, Integration of Industry and Education, and Integration of Science and Education”. It has formed the distinctive features of “Full Life Cycle, All Health Fields, Whole Industry-Education Chain, and All-Round Development of Five Educations”, striving to improve grassroots health and health services.

Closely aligned with Fujian Province’s “555X” key industrial clusters and health development layout, the college focuses on grassroots services and people’s livelihood. It has established a professional layout of “Five Services and Five Orientations” and a “5+9+N” professional development system consisting of leading majors, advantageous majors, and supporting majors. The college pioneered the “Higher Vocational-Undergraduate Articulation” talent training model in Fujian, collaborating with Fujian Medical University to offer articulated programs in clinical medicine, medical laboratory technology, and medical imaging technology. It currently has 4 backbone majors under the National Innovation and Development Action Plan for Higher Vocational Education, 1 national-level demonstration major in health services, 2 majors supported by the Ministry of Education to enhance professional service capabilities, 2 provincial-level high-level professional clusters, and 6 provincial-level demonstration majors in higher vocational education.

The college has continuously optimized its talent training model featuring medicine-education synergy, industry-education integration, and school-enterprise cooperation. It leads the establishment of the Digital-Intelligent Grassroots Health Industry-Education Integration Community and Fujian Health Service Vocational Education Group, carrying out joint education with 25 hospitals and enterprises. It has been approved for 4 provincial-level pilot industrial colleges, 2 provincial-level industry-education integration demonstration majors, 4 provincial-level service-industry characteristic professional clusters, and 3 provincial-level high-level specialized industry-education integration training bases, and was selected as a typical case of industry-education integration and school-enterprise cooperation by the China Education Development Strategy Society. Aligning with new technologies, standards, and norms in the industry, the college promotes curriculum upgrading. It has 2 national-level excellent online open courses, 39 provincial-level excellent online courses, 1 national-level curriculum ideological and political demonstration course, 44 provincial-level curriculum ideological and political demonstration courses, and 6 provincial-level teaching resource databases. A dynamically updated textbook system has been established, with 4 national-level “14th Five-Year Plan” textbooks and 5 provincial-level planning textbooks, winning the second prize of the 2nd National Excellent Textbook Construction Award. It has been approved for one General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).The college has received 1 second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, 1 second prize of the National Health Vocational Education Teaching Guidance Committee Teaching Achievement Award, 2 special prize, 7 first prizes, and 6 second prizes of Fujian Provincial Teaching Achievement Awards. Students have won 2 gold medals and 3 bronze medals in the World Vocational College Skills Competition, and 2 first prizes, 6 second prizes, and 6 third prizes in the National Vocational College Skills Competition. The graduate employment rate remains above 96%, and the college was honored as an Advanced Unit for Employment and Entrepreneurship of College Graduates in Fujian Province.

Committed to scientific and technological innovation and social services, the college serves the innovation-driven development strategy through the integration of science and education. It has 3 research centers and 1 research laboratory, undertaking projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Key Projects of the National Education Science Planning of the Ministry of Education, Research Projects for College Ideological and Political Theory Teachers of the Ministry of Education, and Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Plan Projects. The college has developed 2 local standards of Fujian Province, obtained 24 authorized invention patents, 15 utility model patents, 58 software copyrights, and 2 design patents. It has won 1 first prize and 1 third prize of Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, and 2 third prizes of Fujian Provincial Medical Science and Technology Award.

The college leads the establishment of the Fujian Grassroots Health Technician Training Group, and has been approved as a National Nurse Licensing Examination Question Development Base, National Nutrition Guidance Capacity Improvement Registered Institution, National Cultural, Educational, Scientific and Health Industry Craftsman College Construction Site, Fujian Provincial Rural Doctor Training Center, and Medical Care Worker Training Center, providing training for 30,000 people annually. It was selected as a “List-Announced and Leader-Taken” training unit for key industrial projects in Fujian Province. The college has 15 pilot “1+X” vocational skill level certificate programs and 20 vocational skill evaluation categories. It provides continuing education in collaboration with China Pharmaceutical University, Fujian Medical University, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and other universities, and was awarded National Excellent Adult Continuing Education Institution and Fujian Provincial Professional and Technical Personnel Continuing Education Base.

Actively participating in the high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative, the college has established partnerships with more than 10 universities in the United States, Japan, Thailand, and other countries. It has built the Huangfu Mi Acupuncture and Tuina School in Thailand and the Maritime Silk Road College in Ecuador, enrolled international students, launched the first Sino-foreign nursing education cooperation program in Fujian’s higher vocational colleges, and exported traditional Chinese medicine technical standards to Ecuador and other countries. It collaborates with Tajen University of Science and Technology in Taiwan, and has been approved for enrollment qualifications for students from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, a provincial practice base for national conditions education for Taiwan students, and a provincial open Fujian-Taiwan industry-education integration practice center.

The college vigorously introduces high-level talents and appoints industrial mentors. It has 8 skill master studios and 11 teacher practice stations in enterprises (hospitals), with 78.92% of professional teachers being “dual-qualified”. It has 1 teacher selected in the Ministry of Education’s New Era Vocational School Famous Teacher Training Program, 1 curriculum ideological and political teaching team, 5 famous teachers recognized by the Ministry of Education, 1 excellent teacher of vocational colleges by the Chinese Society of Vocational and Technical Education, 3 provincial-level teaching teams, 3 provincial-level famous teachers, 4 provincial-level higher vocational professional leaders, 2 outstanding teachers of the “Qinghai Cup - Huang Yanpei Vocational Education Award” in Fujian Province, and 2 talents in the Provincial University Outstanding Young Scientific Research Talent Cultivation Program. One teacher was selected as a typical case of individual professional development of “dual-qualified” teachers in national vocational colleges.

Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the college upholds Party building leadership and fully implements the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education. It has received commendations from the National Care for the Next Generation Working Committee of the education system, been consecutively named Provincial Civilized Campus, awarded the Fujian May 1st Labor Certificate, Safe Campus, Level 1 Standardized School for Safety Improvement, Safe Advanced School, Excellent Unit in College Ideological and Political Education Evaluation, and Model Staff Home. It has 1 national Party building work model branch under cultivation and establishment, 1 provincial-level “Three-Wide Education” comprehensive reform pilot faculty, 1 provincial-level Party building benchmark faculty, 5 model branches, and 1 “Double-Leader” teacher Party branch secretary studio. Outstanding students include winners of the “Star of Self-Improvement of Chinese College Students”, national excellent “Three-Visits to the Countryside” teams of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and provincial outstanding Communist Youth League members.

Looking to the future, the college will continue to uphold the school motto “Professional Excellence and Moral Integrity” and the school spirit, teaching style, and learning style of “Respecting Health and Striving for Perfection”, “Respecting Education and Upholding Virtue”, and “Respecting Learning and Practicing Earnestly”. It will vigorously promote the campus culture of “Health”, “Goodness”, and “Benevolence”, and build a high-level vocational college with distinctive vocational education features, profound health foundations, and outstanding service characteristics, cultivating more high-quality technical and skilled talents for the construction of Healthy China and Healthy Fujian.

（The data provided is accurate as of September  21, 2026.）