second military medical university second military medical university the people's liberation army naval medical university (中国人民解放军海军军医大学), also known as the pla second military medical university (smmu) (中国人民解放军第二军医大学), is a public university in shanghai, china. it was founded in september 1949 and named in july 1951. it is a national key university supported by the state project 211. it is a chinese state double first class university, included in the national double first class university plan. as of 2022, the second military medical university is ranked between top 601-700 among world universities according to the academic ranking of world universities. people's liberation army naval medical university中国人民解放军海军军医大学former namespeople's medical college of the east china military commanding regiontypepublic universityestablishedseptember 1949 (1949)affiliationpeople's liberation army navylocationshanghai, chinacampusurban area 670,000 square metres (7,211,820 sq ft)websitehttp://www.smmu.edu.cn/ second military medical universitysimplified chinese中国人民解放军海军军医大学traditional chinese中國人民解放軍海軍軍醫大學transcriptionsstandard mandarinhanyu pinyinzhōngguó rénmín jiěfàngjūn hǎijūn jūnyī dàxué it was previously called people's medical college of the east china military commanding region. the building is adjacent to fudan university and tongji university and covers an area of nearly 1.1 square kilometres (270 acres). the premises have a total floor space of over 670,000 square metres (7,211,820 sq ft), including a complex of modern teaching buildings, a library, an experiment building and teaching hospitals of the first rate in china. the library itself covers an area over 11,000 square metres (118,403 sq ft) with a collection of over 500,000 book volumes. affiliated hospitals changhai hospital (first affiliated hospital) changzheng hospital (second affiliated hospital) eastern hepatobiliary surgery hospital (third affiliated hospital)