Emergency medicine is a new medical discipline involving emergency treatment and catastrophe medicine etc. With the development of emergency medical service system （EMSS） and the community medical service system in China

university hospitals serve as an important community emergency treatment unit in the social emergency treatment network. In this paper

we present the practice and progress in the building and development of emergency medicine in Northwestern Polytechnic University Hospital from the following four aspects: 1. the role of university hospitals in emergency treatment in the social emergency treatment network; 2. building a high-efficient emergency ward and emergency treatment pedures;3.training of the doctors and nurses for on-the-spot emergency treatment; 4. the management of emergency medical services.