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During the last 10 years, the educational philosophy of the school has been updated constantly, teaching facility improved, teaching management standardized, and teaching team becomes more reasonable gradually. The specialty of nursing was granted to be the key construction discipline of Zhejiang Province in 2007 and the special characteristic discipline construction site of the National Education Department in 2010. The school now serves as a unit member of Nursing Higher Education Steering Committee of Education Department, the 3rd unit member of Higher Education Teaching Material Review Committee, the vice-president unit of Nursing Education under the National Higher Education Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and also the provincial training base for the key discipline of Chinese-Western Integrated Nursing.

The School of Nursing is well organized with four Teaching and Research Sections, namely Fundamentals of Nursing, Traditional Chinese Nursing, Gynecological, Obstetric, Pediatric Nursing, and Adult Nursing. Among them, three are university-level excellent model teaching and research sections. Its nursing experiment center has a space of 1,500 square meters, with well-equipped facilities and advanced equipment. The center won the Special Fund for Provincial Higher Education Laboratory Construction from the Department of Finance of Zhejiang Province in both 2003 and 2009.

Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (ZCMU) is located near the south bank of Qiantang River, in the city of Hangzhou, a world-famous tourist resort known for its beautiful scenery and rich cultural heritage. ZCMU is a teaching and research-oriented university with Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Chinese Materia Medica as its leading subjects. As a key university in Zhejiang Province, it is jointly constructed by the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province, the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China.

Traced back to Zhejiang Training School of TCM in June 1953, Zhejiang College of TCM was officially founded in June 1959. It was eligible for awarding a doctoral degree in 1998 and moved to Hangzhou-based Binjiang Higher Education Zone in 2000. In February 2006, it was renamed as Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (ZCMU). In September 2015, Fuchun Campus was put into use. The university now has two campuses covering an area of nearly 1,000 mu, with the total construction area exceeding 470,000 square meters.

ZCMU now sets schools including the First School of Clinical Medicine, the Second School of Clinical Medicine, the Third School of Clinical Medicine (School of Rehabilitation Medicine), the Fourth School of Clinical Medicine, Hangzhou School of Clinical Medicine, School of Basic Clinical Medicine, School of Public Health, School of Stomatology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Nursing, School of Medical Technology and Information Engineering, School of Life Sciences, School of Humanities and Management, School of Continuing Education, International Education College, Institute of Marxism, Department of Physical Education, and Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. ZCMU has 3 directly affiliated hospitals, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine), the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (Xinhua Hospital of Zhejiang Province), and the Third Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University (Zhongshan Hospital of Zhejiang Province). Moreover, there are another 22 Hospitals located in different cities of Zhejiang Province affiliated to ZCMU.