ABSTRACT
During the Yan’an period, under the instructions of the CPC Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, the former Eighth Route Army Health School was expanded into China Medical University. As the first medical university founded by the Communist Party of China, this is a great practice of higher medical education in the new revolution. The school adhered to the policy of educating people with both ability and political integrity, the "saving the dying and healing the wounded, implementing revolutionary humanitarianism" has become the ideological guide and goal of the majority of revolutionary medical workers. The school provided a good teaching environment by strengthening teachers, enriching infrastructure and teaching equipment. Teachers and students have overcome difficulties and made great achievements in teaching and learning. At the same time, through the mass production movement and rectification movement, the development of the school was promoted from two aspects of material production and ideological construction. The practice of China Medical University in education policy, teaching curriculum and teaching content has certain enlightenment for today’s medical education.