Lianyungang Clinical Medicine School of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine was founded in October of 1951. With painstaking efforts of generations, it has developed into the largest Grade III Level A General Hospital and Affiliated Hospital of Xuzhou Medical University, School of Clinical Medicine of Nanjing Medical University, Nantong Clinical Medicine School of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Kangda Institute of Nanjing Medical University in east Xu-Huai Region from a hospital with only 15 staff and 15 beds at the beginning of founding. The hospital possesses several scientific research innovation platforms including the National Postdoctoral Scientific Research Workstation, National Drugs Clinic Trials Certification Body, Lianyungang Research Base of National Clinical Medicine Research Center, National Resident Doctor Standardization Training Base, National General Practitioner Standardization Training Base, Stroke Screening and Prevention Base Hospital of Ministry of Health, Endoscopic and Mini-invasive Medical Training Base of Ministry of Health, National Clinical Pharmacist Training Base, Jiangsu Provincial Post-Doctoral Innovative Practice Base, Jiangsu Provincial Nuclear Radiation Treatment Base, Jiangsu Provincial General Practitioner Training Demonstration Base and Jiangsu Provincial Resident Doctor Standardization Demonstration Base, etc.. In recent years, the hospital has been successively awarded National Advanced Health System Collective, National Advanced Health Culture Construction Unit, National General Hospital Traditional Chinese medicine Work Demonstration Unit, Jiangsu Civilized Unit, Jiangsu Top 10 Hospitals, Jiangsu Advanced Health System Collective, Jiangsu Provincial Safe Hospital, Jiangsu Qualified Hospital for Implementing Patient Safety Goal, and Jiangsu "Publicly-Satisfactory Medical and Health Organization". The hospital covers a population of more than 8,000,000 with 2,610 authorized beds, and it covers a building area of more than 148,000m2, with a total asset of 2.6 billion yuan. And the total amount of annual diagnosis and treatment exceeds more than 1,410,000 and the number of discharged patients is about 96,000.