Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine (HUCM) was founded in 1954, has become a higher institution of Chinese medicine with high level of teaching, scientific research, and clinical treatment, and has a certain influence at home and abroad.

HUCM has 11 colleges, 13 affiliated hospitals (4 directly affiliated), 1 Chinese medicine research institute, 1 Chinese medicine higher education research institute, 26 teaching hospitals and 70 practice bases. HUCM has 4 post-doctoral research stations, 4 first-level disciplines with the right to confer doctoral degree; 5 first-level disciplines with the right to confer master's degree; 1 doctoral degree authorization point and 4 master degree authorization points; 25 undergraduate majors. HUCM currently has 4398 faculty members, 1058 full-time teachers, 111 doctoral supervisors, 475 master supervisors. 

HUCM has 1 international scientific and technological cooperation base of Chinese medicine of Ministry of Science and Technology, 1 international scientific and technological cooperation base of Chinese medicine of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It currently is chief scientist unit of national "973 plan" project.

HUCM has qualifications to accept foreign students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, has recruited foreign students since the beginning of the 1980s, it is one of the first batch of colleges approved by the Ministry of Education to recruit foreign students in China. HUCM has carried out educational, medical, and technological cooperation and exchanges with more than 40 medical schools or research institutions in more than 30 countries and regions in the world. The world's first Confucius Institute for Traditional Chinese Medicine, jointly established by HUCM, London South Bank University and Harbin Normal University in the United Kingdom, has been rated as an "Advanced Confucius Institute" by Ministry of Education and Hanban for five consecutive years, and has become the first batch of "Model Confucius Institutes" in the world. HUCM and Russian Amur State Medical College jointly organized the "Sino-Russian Biomedicine Forum" and established Sino-Russian Chinese Medicine Innovation and Development Alliance; also undertook the construction task of "China-Central and Eastern European Center for Chinese Medicine (Hungary)", a special international cooperation project of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

黑龙江中医药大学始建于1954年，经六十余年的建设与发展，学校已成为具有较高教学、科研、医疗水平，在国内外有一定影响的高等中医药院校。

学校有科技部中医药国际科技合作基地1个，国家中医药管理局中医药国际科技合作基地1个，现为国家“973计划”项目首席科学家单位。

学校具有接收外国留学生和港澳台学生学历教育资格，自80年代初开始招收外国留学生，是教育部首批批准招收来华留学生院校之一，已同世界上30多个国家和地区医学院校或研究机构开展了教育、医疗、科技合作与交流，接受国外来访学者500多人，培养外国留学生及港澳台学生5000多人。学校与英国伦敦南岸大学、哈尔滨师范大学联合创办的世界首家中医孔子学院连续5年被教育部、国家汉办评为“先进孔子学院”，并成为全球首批“示范孔子学院”； 学校与俄罗斯阿穆尔国立医学院联合举办 “中俄生物医药论坛”，成立中俄中医药创新发展联盟；学校还承担国家中医药管理局国际合作专项 “中国－中东欧中医药中心（匈牙利）”建设任务。