In 1949, a major upheaval of Chinese nursing began
following the government's takeover by the Communist
party. By 1952 a Soviet-modelled education reform program
had come into effect, during which time all post-secondary
nursing education was abolished (Xu et al., 2000).
The remaining programs consisted of 3-year training following
9 years of primary and secondary school (Hong &
Yatsushiro, 2003). There was some resistance to these policies
however, with the establishment of the Beijing Second
Medical College in 1961, although it quickly failed due to
significant political pressure