Abstract: “Two centers” of DENG Xiao-ping profoundly reveals the close relationship between teaching and scientific research and the general development rules of institutions of higher education.Traditional Chinese medicine institutions of higher education should unswervingly make efforts towards “two eenters” with the scientifically responsibility of inheriting and innovating traditional Chinese medicine.The guiding ideology and development goals of Heilongjiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine explicitly point out that taking teaching and scientific research as the center and unifying the thinking can strengthen the construction and formation of “two centers”.