General Situation of the University At present the University has developed into a multidisciplinary, multilevel and multiform pharmaceutical institute of higher learning. It consists of Schools of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Traditional Chinese Medicines, Business Administration, Basic Courses and Adult Education. The University has been authorized to confer Master’s and Doctor’s Degrees and to enroll students from areas of Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, foreign countries and recommended students from senior middle schools for admission to the University as well. In 1996 with the approval of the State Education Commission of China, the University began to run a “National Training Base for Science Talents of Basic Science and Research and of Science Teaching” as an experiment. There is 1 postdoctoral scientific research center for pharmacy, 1 doctor’s dergee-conferring unit of the first class of disciplines, 6 doctor’s degree-conferring units of the second class of disciplines, 8 master’s degree-conerring units, 9 specialities of undergraduate courses. The English class of pharmacy and the Japanese class of pharmacy(with a 5-year period of schooling) are a speciality which has greater influcence at home. At the University specialities of the pharmacy class are complete. Pharmaceutics is the only national key discipline and the specialities of medicinal chemistry and pharmaceutical analysis are provincial key disciplines. Now the total students of all levels are more than 7000. At the University there is an Institute of Materia Medica, an Institute of Pharmaceutical Education of Higher Learning, a computer center, an audio-visual education programme center, a center of instrumental analysis, a botanic garden of medicinal herbs, a subsidiary pharmaceutical factory, etc. The National Medicine Engineering & Technique Research Center of the Former SPAC and the Laboratory of Pharmacokinetics and Drug Matabolism were all set up at the University. The University is an important component unit of The Engineering Technique Center of the National Patent Medicines and the Shenyang National New Drug Safety Evaluation Center. There is one academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, over 170 professors and associate professors(nearly 1/4 of them are personnel studying abroad, nearly 20 of them have gained doctor’s degrees abroad). They enjoy higher prestige at home and abroad. Some of them are holding important posts. For example, the leader of the a