title: Evolution of surgical paediatrics in China.
abstract: Pediatric surgery of China was established in 1950. Being isolated from the world, China's first-generation pediatric surgeons were mainly self-taught. The technology of pediatric surgery of China practically followed Gross, and the aim of pediatric surgery was similar to that of BAPS, "not to seek a monopoly." Since 1980, after the scientific exchange with Western countries, the clinical results of common pediatric surgical diseases have reached the acceptable level of the world. China is a huge country with poor transportation, one-child family planning, and Chinese traditional medicine, which made certain peculiarities in the practice of paediatric surgery.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Children's Hospital, Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Jin-Zhe
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Long
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D013502:General Surgery / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000266:history*; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history*