Those who have the ability can stay in school for teaching and research, or work in an affiliated hospital with a monthly salary of at least 5,000 yuan. Teaching assistants, lecturers, associate professors and professors will get a salary increase every time they are promoted. Professors generally earn 8,000 to15,000 yuan a month.

Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is one of the earliest four institutions of higher learning of traditional Chinese medicine in China. It has the right to award master's and doctor's degrees, as well as professional degrees in clinical medicine, and is one of the first batch of non-medical pilot units.