Founded in 1947, with former name of Kanto Medical School, Dalian Medical University was incorporated into Dalian University in 1949 and named Medical School of Dalian University. It was separated from Dalian University in 1950 and named Dalian Medical School. In 1969, it was immigrated to Zunyi, Guizhou Province and called Zunyi Medical School. While Dalian Medical School was reestablished in the original address in 1978 and renamed as Dalian Medical University in 1994. Now it has been a medical university with main feature of medicine education and comprehensive development of several subjects including science, engineering, management, art, law and philosophy, etc. It is located at No. 9 of the west section of South Lvshun Road, Dalian, Liaoning Province, occupying an area of 1,510,000m2, with a construction area of 532,000 m2. Fixed assets of the school achieves 2.013 billion Yuan, among which total value of educational and research instruments is as high as 0.316 billion Yuan. The library comprises about 1,010,900 volumes. It totally has 21 colleges (departments) , 18 a liated hospitals and 23 undergraduate programs.