Guangxi Medical University, founded on 21st November 1934, is located in the ‘Green City’ Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and covers an area of more than 70 square meters. The school is currently preparing the new campus which will cover an area of more than 666.67 square meters (one of the key projects of ‘ second Five-Year plan’ of Guangxi Government education planning). It was formerly Guangxi Provincial Medical collage. In 1940, the school site moved to Guilin. Before 1949, during the war, the school migrated seven times and changed the name for three times. In November 1949, its name changed to Guangxi Province Medical School. In 1952, the Central Health Ministry entrusted Zhongnan health to lead the school directly. In April 1953, the Central Ministry of Health approved the name of Guangxi Medical College. In July 1954, the school moved from Guilin to Nanning, where it’s located till now. In May 1996, the Ministry of Education approval renamed Guangxi Medical University.

The school is one of the earliest 22 medical institutes in China, and one of the 8 firstly accredited medical institutes by government to enroll international students and students from Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas Chinese for her comprehensive qualified English curriculum recognized as one of the first approved 30 high institutes. Located in the city of Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, GXMU is one of the key prestigious universities in Guangxi and also a base for medical education, medical research as well as clinical and preventive medicine.

The school now has 1178 full-time teachers , of which 303 with the orthometric title,309 subtropical high title , senior title of professional teachers accounted for 52%, Master's or higher degree in teaching accounted for 78%, 2 candidates as pacesetter project in the new century national, six national young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contribution, the ministry of education listed seven in the new century excellent talents to support plan, 72 candidates enjoy special government allowances of the state council experts, 31 candidates as Guangxi ‘1000 new century talents project’ the second level, three candidates as Guangxi ‘BaGui scholars’, three distinguished Professors, , 46 candidates in the Chinese medical association professional members of the standing committee, and 36 series of Chinese medical journal editors, 49 are professional institute of Guangxi Medical association members, and there is also a group of excellent talents which were elected to the national and provincial colleges and universities young and middle-aged leading talents cultivating objects.

There are now 14396 full-time students, including 3340 higher vocational students, 7101 undergraduate students, 2948 master degree’s students, 253 doctoral students, and 754 international students. Students are from all over 26 provinces, Autonomous Regions and Municipalities of the country directly under the central government and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions, and 19 countries. School began to enroll international students in 1978. And now there are international students from 54 different countries.