General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University was founded in 1935, formerly known as Ningxia provincial hospital before the liberation. The hospital is located in Yinchuan which is the capital City of Ningxia Province. It covers an area of 230,000 square metres (350.7 acres) and a building area of 266,000 square meters. In 2011, it officially changed its name to the General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, which administered the 7 branches. It is a set of medical, teaching, scientific research, training, examination, preventive care and health functions in one of modern comprehensive three A-level hospital. As a regional medical, scientific research, education, examination and training center, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University leads the development of medical enterprise. At present, it has been already ranked the leading level between China Northwest and Inner Mongolia, Shanxi seven provinces (area).Ⅰ.Discipline construction and developmentGeneral Hospital of Ningxia Medical University has a total of 4525in-services staff, including 64 doctors and 599 master personnel. General Hospital has 2186 open beds, outpatients volume per-year reaches 1005100 person-time. For one year, patients discharged from hospital can be achieved 70300 person-time and operation volume can be 40200 person-time. Its medical care, teaching, scientific research and examination training cover up a radiation of over 500 kilometers, serving a population of about 13 million.General hospital services a wide range of specialist and has a rapid development. It set up a total of 47 clinical departments, 13 medical technology departments, 6 research institutes, in which has 5 clinical specialty construction project of the Ministry of health national (Cardiovascular Department of internal medicine, Intensive care medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Cardiovascular surgery, Respiratory and Critical care medicine);2 advantage discipline of the autonomous region. (Department of Cardiology, Department of Neurosurgery).Ⅱ.Teaching workGeneral hospital (including clinical medicine college) is the only affiliated hospitals of Ningxia Medical University. It has been to bear the heavy late clinical teaching work for years, to train a batch of another batch of medical personnel in Ningxia Province. It lay the foundations for the medical education and the development of medical and health cause. Therefore it’s made a great Contribution to promote economic development in Ningxia Province.Ⅲ.Scientific research workIn recent 5 years, the hospital has won 66 National Natural Science Funds and 339 provincial and ministerial level scientific research projects. It made a very important contribution to rise a level of medical scientific research development in Ningxia Province.Ⅳ.Device configurationThe hospital has many advanced 3.0T NMR, PET-CT, CT, GE gem / 64 row helical CT, full-field digital mammography, high-end four-dimensional colorDoppler ultrasound, high-end bone density instrument, SPECT-CT, DSA, multi functional digital X-ray machine, full automatic biochemical lines, automatic blood lines, full automatic chemiluminescence analyzer, 454 sequencing instrument and the more largely high-end, precise, top technology medical equipments.The department of neurosurgery in the hospital was formally established in May 1987. By several years of stormy history, it has been developed into a set of medical, teaching, researching department which has a leading position in the whole region through several generations of experts’ and professors’unremitting efforts and exploration. In 2001, it won the "Municipal key disciplines" title. In 2011, it won the "national key specialist" title of Ministry of health.The department of neurosurgery has 125 beds (including 6 beds in ICU ward). The personnel structure is 18 Deputy Chief Physician, including 1 doctoral tutor, 9 master tutor, 4Dr. and 20master. The departments treated patients for more than 2000 people per year, nearly 1300 operations per year. The patients were involved in Ningxia, Shanxi, Gansu and Inner Mongolia Province. It can carry out the operation as follows : all types of craniocerebral trauma operation; various parts of the brain tumor; spinal tumor operation; transsphenoidal pituitary tumor operation; intracranial aneurysm clipping operation; intracranial aneurysm embolization operation; after intraventricular endoscopy with intraventricular tumor operation; function department of neurosurgery operation etc. In the Northwest Region , it has a leading level, parts of operation can be reached the domestic advanced level.。