Guangdong Pharmaceutical University. Guangzhou Pharmaceutical (GDPU), located in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, is one of the three pharmaceutical universities in China, and the earliest institution of higher learning in South China to offer a series of pharmaceutical majors. The school is the leading unit of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Pharmaceutical Industry Collaborative Innovation Alliance and Integrated Pharmaceutical Alliance, and a member unit of Sino-Russian Medical University Alliance. The running history of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University can be traced back to the Guangdong Institute for Continuing Education of Health Cadres founded in 1958; In 1978, it was upgraded to an ordinary undergraduate university and named Guangdong Medical College; In 1994, it was renamed guangdong pharmaceutical university; In 2016, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, it was officially renamed Guangdong Pharmaceutical University. As of October 9, 2020, the school has five campuses in Guangzhou (University City, Chigang, Baogang), Zhongshan and Yunfu, covering an area of nearly 5,300 mu, and its school-based location is in Guangzhou University City; There are 21 teaching units and 2 directly affiliated tertiary hospitals; There are 1,733 faculty members, with more than 22,000 full-time undergraduates, postgraduates and international students; Have 1 Post-Doctoral Research Center; There is one first-class doctoral degree program, five first-class master degree programs, six professional degree master degree programs and 47 undergraduate majors; Medicine, chemistry, pharmacology and toxicology, and agricultural science rank 1% in ESI globally.