The Chinese Journal of Burns is the most authoritative one in academic circles of burn medicine in China. It adheres to the principle of combining theory with practice and integrating popularization with progress and reflects advancements in clinical and scientific research in the field of burn in China. The readers of the journal include burn and plastic clinicians, and researchers focusing on burn area. The burn refers to many correlative medicine including pathophysiology, pathology, immunology, microbiology, biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, and bioengineering, etc. Shock, infection, internal organ injury, electrolytes and acid-base, wound repair and reconstruction, rehabilitation, all of which are also the basic problems of surgery.