[The overview of the development of modern burn surgery in China]

Chinese modern burn surgery belongs to the western medicine system. From 1930s, the knowledge of modern burn surgery spread over China. Its development had experienced four stages: enlightening stage, exploratory stage, mature stage, and remodeling stage. Before the 1950s, medical personnel began to study those knowledges. The clinical treatment developed slowly and had little experience. From the 1950s to 1960s, Chinese burn surgery professionals made the painstaking exploration and accumulated rich clinical experiences. The success of severe burns treatment attracted worldwide attention. From the 1970s to the mid-1990s, as the regulations of burn diagnosis and treatment established in China, the clinical treatment developed widely. The world's leading therapeutic effects have achieved. The professional education system has been founded, and the professional societies have created. Those made medical personnel can access the scientific research achievement. Therefore, the leading talents emerged. Chinese modern burn surgery entered a mature stage. Since the late-1990s, Chinese modern burn surgery entered a remodeling stage. Besides increasing the cure rate and decrease disability rate of burn gradually, Chinese modern burn surgery need solve new problems such as that standardization of diagnosis and treatment sets up, the scope of diagnosis and treatment expands, professional training improves, etc.