Originally known as Beijing Second Medical College, Capital University of Medical Sciences , was established in 1960 in Beijing, China. The university is also known as CUMS, CCMU or CMU.

At present, the university positions itself among the best scholarly medical establishments in China and is considered as one of the key metropolitan colleges in Beijing. The establishing President, Professor Wu Jieping, was an incredibly famous urologist, individual from both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The present President is Professor Lu Zhaofeng.

CMU is an outstanding scholarly organization for its solid ability in the medical and logical research. It has numerous national and metropolitan labs and some trade stations for post-doctoral research. CMU in the medical education sector covers a variety of fields including General Practitioner Training, Clinical Medicine, Basic Medicine, Neurosciences, Ophthalmology, Geriatrics, Urology, Cardiology, Pain Medicine, Toxicology, Biomedical Engineering, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Reproduction, Health Policy et cetera. The university has accomplished national and worldwide acknowledgments in numerous territories, for example, Neurobiology, Cytobiology, Immunology, Medical Iconography, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Cardiology, Cardio-vascular Surgery, Kidney Transplantation, Respiratory Disease, Digestive Medicine, Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology and Pediatric Hematology, among others.

CMU has associations and concurrences with numerous colleges and establishments with in excess of 20 nations and locales, supporting exercises, for example, personnel and understudy trade programs, joint training and joint research ventures.