Guizhou Medical University is located in Guiyang, the capital city of Guizhou Province. It is called "Forest City" and honored as the “Demonstration City of Ecological Civilization” in China. It is the political, cultural, tourism and transportation center of Guizhou Province. The climate here is pleasant, with unique landforms of Karst. And the green coverage of the city reaches over 85%, ranking the first in the country.

In addition, the "China-ASEAN Education Exchange week" hosted by Ministry of Education has been held in Guizhou since 2008, which makes Guizhou colleges and universities be able to carry out in-depth educational cooperation with ASEAN countries and respond positively to the national Belt and Road policy.

Founded in 1938, Guizhou Medical University (GMU) was originally known as the National Guiyang Medical College. It was one of the nine national medical colleges under the Ministry of Education at that time. GMU has two campuses covering 134 thousands square feet, and owns 4 direct affiliated hospitals, 8 non-affiliated hospitals, 12 teaching hospitals, and 20 teaching institutions. 

GMU has developed into a higher education institute of medicine with influence and reputation in China from the perspective of scale, structure, quality and efficiency. GMU is also the only key provincial university in Guizhou Province that offers a complete medical training system: from Bachelor, Master, to Doctor of Medicine.