Chinese Journal of Virology was founded in 1985. Its supervisory unit is the China Association for Science and Technology, its sponsor is the Chinese Society of Microbiology, its organizer is the Institute of Viral Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and its editorial department publishes it. This journal is a professional academic journal in virology, and mainly publishes new achievements and progress in basic and applied basic research on human and animal viruses, plant viruses, insect viruses, bacteriophages and phage viruses. The subscribers of the journal are mainly domestic scientific research units, universities, medical institutions, scientific research and development workers engaged in virus biomedical technology enterprises, and well-known databases and book and newspaper collection institutions at home and abroad.