Affiliated Hospital of Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

The hospital is a national key specialty construction unit for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), a national TCM epidemic prevention and control base, and a national TCM clinical teaching and training demonstration center. Its acupuncture specialty ranks second nationwide in the reputation evaluation of TCM specialties by Fudan University and across the country. It is a national key clinical specialty, a key discipline of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the Gansu branch of the National TCM Acupuncture Clinical Medical Research Center. In 2023, the hospital was selected as one of the first batch of national TCM clinical teaching and training demonstration centers, and in 2025, it was awarded the title of National Civilized Unit. It is one of the leading units in the inheritance, innovation, and development of TCM in Gansu Province.

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Hospital Introduction

1. Historical Origins and Spiritual Inheritance

The Affiliated Hospital of Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, directly affiliated with Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was founded in 1991. In 2007, it passed the evaluation of the Gansu Provincial Health Department and became a Grade III Class A TCM hospital. In 2013, it passed the re-evaluation by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The hospital is also currently affiliated with Longhua Hospital of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Gansu Branch) and is a national regional medical center construction unit. Inheriting the TCM cultural heritage of Huangfu Mi, the patriarch of acupuncture, the hospital has been successively awarded the titles of National Advanced Collective in the Medical and Health System (2010, 2012), Provincial Civilized Unit (2015), and National Civilized Unit (2025). In 2020, it was approved as a National TCM Epidemic Prevention and Control Base, and in 2022, it was approved as a National TCM Clinical Teaching and Training Demonstration Center.

2. Overall Scale and Hardware Capabilities

The hospital currently has its main campus in Lanzhou (East Campus) and two branch campuses in Gaolan and Xigu, and oversees community health service institutions such as Jiayuguan Road. It currently has approximately 1400 beds, with 114 beds at the Xigu Campus. The National Regional Medical Center at the East Campus is under construction, with plans to add 1000 beds. The hospital is a Grade III Class A Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) hospital with strong TCM characteristics, comprehensive clinical departments, and integrated medical treatment, teaching, research, prevention, healthcare, rehabilitation, and emergency care. It is a national-level standardized training base for TCM (general practice) resident physicians and a national-level key specialty base. Equipped with TCM diagnostic and treatment, rehabilitation physiotherapy, and modern laboratory equipment, it is a core base for TCM clinical practice, teaching, and research in Gansu Province.

3. National Ranking and Authoritative Certification

4. Core Business Data

The hospital, relying on its main campus and two branch campuses, ranks among the top provincial TCM hospitals in Gansu Province in terms of annual outpatient and emergency visits and inpatient volume. Its acupuncture center receives the highest number of patients in the province annually for pain, facial paralysis, and neurological disorders. As a directly affiliated hospital of Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the hospital undertakes a large number of standardized training programs for undergraduates, graduate students, and resident physicians, making it an important base for cultivating TCM clinical talent in Gansu Province.

5. MDT Multidisciplinary Collaboration System

The hospital leverages the unique strengths of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to establish a comprehensive treatment model that combines TCM acupuncture with herbal medicine, massage, and rehabilitation for pain-related diseases, stroke, facial paralysis, osteoarthritis, and miscellaneous internal medicine ailments. It also spearheads the formation of a TCM specialty alliance and collaborates with primary healthcare institutions to develop TCM medical consortia, creating an integrated TCM and Western medicine treatment system that integrates acupuncture, herbal medicine, rehabilitation, and chronic disease management.

6. International and Foreign-Related Medical Treatment System

As the birthplace and inheritor of Huangfumi acupuncture medicine, the hospital maintains exchanges and cooperation with domestic and international acupuncture academic institutions in its acupuncture department and has established a Zheng's Acupuncture School Academic Inheritance Studio. Relying on the Gansu Branch of the National Clinical Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine Acupuncture, the hospital promotes appropriate acupuncture techniques and conducts international academic exchanges, providing acupuncture, massage, and rehabilitation medical services with traditional Chinese medicine characteristics to foreign nationals and international patients in Gansu.

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Department Profile

Acupuncture

The Department of Acupuncture and Pain Management at the Affiliated Hospital of Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a core clinical unit of a national key clinical specialty and a key discipline of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It relies on the Gansu Provincial Clinical Medical Center for Acupuncture and Moxibustion, the Gansu Branch of the National Clinical Center for Acupuncture and Moxibustion, and the Gansu Zheng's Acupuncture School Academic Inheritance Studio. The department takes the inheritance of the Zheng's Acupuncture School as its academic foundation, with "targeted acupuncture" and "warming acupuncture" as its signature core technologies. It features minimally invasive TCM techniques such as needle knife mirror, small needle knife, and acupoint embedding, positioning itself as a leading discipline in acupuncture and pain management in Gansu Province and a core base for acupuncture clinical practice, research, and talent training in Northwest China. A benchmark for minimally invasive TCM pain management in Northwest China; a training base for needle knife and endoscopy techniques in Gansu; and a comprehensive TCM and Western medicine treatment center for intractable neuralgia and musculoskeletal pain.

Historical Origins:

The parent acupuncture center was established in 1992, relying on the national intangible cultural heritage Zheng's acupuncture method inheritance system; the acupuncture pain subspecialty was established independently in 2023, inheriting Huangfu Mi's acupuncture thought, Zheng's acupuncture method, and the academic spirit of emphasizing both tendons and bones and combining acupuncture and medicine with minimally invasive techniques.

Core business operational efficiency:

The hospital has 29 open beds, a medical team of 19 people, including 10 physicians (3 PhDs, 4 master's supervisors, and 3 chief physicians); it is equipped with acupuncture knife endoscope, musculoskeletal ultrasound, shock wave therapy, PRP, and electroacupuncture equipment; it treats more than 10,000 patients with various chronic pain annually, and handles referrals of patients with intractable neck, shoulder, back and leg pain, postherpetic neuralgia, and trigeminal neuralgia from Northwest China; it has presided over more than 20 provincial and municipal research projects, obtained 2 invention patents, and published more than 30 core papers.

Subject-based benchmarking comparison:

Benchmarking against the Acupuncture Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, its advantage lies in the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine in a **minimally invasive needle knife endoscopy + musculoskeletal ultrasound-guided targeted acupuncture program, focusing on the high incidence of osteoarticular and neuropathic pain in Northwest China**. Compared with top acupuncture pain centers in China, it emphasizes the implementation of minimally invasive needle knife endoscopy technology while also incorporating traditional Zheng's acupuncture methods, using minimally invasive techniques to replace open surgery and reduce surgical trauma for patients with chronic pain.

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Hospital Specialists

Yao Xiaoqiang chief physician, master's supervisor, director of the Department of Acupuncture and Pain Management and director of the Department of Acupuncture and Tuina at the Affiliated Hospital of Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

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Wei Qinglin Chief Physician, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Executive Vice President and Director of the Acupuncture Department of Gansu Huangfumi Acupuncture Hospital, and a renowned traditional Chinese medicine doctor in Gansu Province.

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Wu Quansheng Professor, Master's Supervisor, and Renowned Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner in Gansu Province.

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Dong Lili Master's degree graduate, attending physician in the Department of Acupuncture and Pain Management at the Affiliated Hospital of Gansu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

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Shi Zhenggang Professor, doctoral supervisor, renowned traditional Chinese medicine doctor in Gansu Province, and executive director of the Pediatrics Professional Committee of the China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

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