TIANJIN - Wang Guiying, the Chinese winner of the prestigious Nightingale Medal for nursing, died here on Sunday at the age of 93 after battling a brain tumor.

According to an agreement Wang signed more than two years ago, her body has been donated to the Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TUTCM).

At the donation ceremony held Sunday in the Tianjin Hetong Old Age Home, where Wang spent her last years, Zhang Jinzhong, secretary of the TUTCM Committee of the Communist Party of China, said that by receiving Wang's donations, the university would carry forward Wang's selflessness in her life-long contribution to China's nursing cause.

Born in 1920 in Dezhou city of east China's Shandong Province, Wang provided nursing services for 60 years after graduating from a nurses' school in Fenyang of northern China's Shanxi Province.

She was awarded the Nightingale Medal, the world's top honor for nurses, from the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1999.

Wang used to be the director-general of the Tianjin Nurses Association. She was diagnosed with pinealoma, a tumor of the brain's pineal gland, in late 2008.