Time flying, the Beijing Neurosurgical Institute , founded in 1960 and the earliest of the kind in China, has been set up for 50 years. It has been sharing the common fate with the nation and its people all along from the beginning. Since ZHAO Yi Cheng, the first director of the institute, died of illness in 1974, WANG Zhong Cheng succeeded. Benefitting from the reform and open-up policies, the institute develops very quickly. Now it has become an organic whole of scientific research, teaching and clinical application, enjoying great international fame. In 1982, it was appointed “Neuroscience Research and Training Centre of WHO” by WHO, and “National Centre for Neurosurgery” by National Ministry of Public Health. In 1997, it became “Neuroscience Institute of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences”; in 2004, under the approval of the Ministry of Public Health, it established “Beijing Academy of Neurosurgery”; in 2007, a training base of endoscope technique of the Ministry of Public Health was founded here.

Academically based on Tian Tan Hospital, the institute insists on the combination of scientific research and clinical practice, contributing great to both public health of capital residents and the development of neurosurgery sciences. Under the leadership of WANG Zhong Cheng, a number of qualified neurosurgery researchers undertake state- and province-level key research projects, making in-depth and systematic study on subjects such as cerebrovascular disease, brain tumor, plasticity of nerve system, functional neurosurgery, endoscope neurosurgery, basicranial neurosurgery and craniocerebral injury from the angle of neuro-electrophysiology, neurochemibology, molecular biology, neuropathology, neuroradiology, etc. Some of the research findings have reached advanced international standards.

For the whole staff, there are 173 people, 61 out of which have high professional title, 48 with intermediate professional title, 36 with elementary academic title, 23 with doctor degree, and 13 with master degree. Academic leaders amount to 25, directing research respectively on neurosurgery, neuroimaging, biology, health statistics and epidemiology, cytobiology, neuropathology, patho- physiology, neurology, public health and preventive medicine.

The institute is equipped with 19 basic research offices, 5 clinical research offices and 2 preventive research offices, which are “National Research Office on Prevention and Treatment of Cerebrovascular Disease” and “Beijing Directing Office on Prevention and Treatment of Cerebrovascular Disease”. Another 3 social bodies are Beijing Wang Zhong Cheng Medical Foundation, Chinese Neurosurgery Journal newsroom, and Neurosurgery Branch of Chinese Doctor Association. There are also 2 doctor stations,6 master stations and 1 mobile station for post-doctors.

The institute has assumed 338 projects, 72 out of which are state-level, 132 ministerial- or municipal-level, 103 bureau-level, and 21 various levels. The staff has published 92 monographs and 3042 academic papers. They have undertaken 17 researches on cerebrovascular disease assigned by national Seventh-Five Year Plan, Eighth-Five Year Plan, Ninth-Five Year Plan and Eleventh-Five Year Plan, obtaining 282 research results, 27 out of which are state-level, 4 international, 167 ministerial- or municipal-level, and 144 bureau-level. Academician WANG Zhong Cheng was awarded the highest national technology prize, which is the glory for all medical practitioners of Beijing. According to an incomplete statistics, medical experts invited to lecture and visit here amount to 589 person-times.

Efforts make splendidness. In the 50 years, especially the 30 years of reform and open-up, the institute has acquired outstanding recordings, which is the result of painstaking efforts, unselfish devotion, concerted striving and innovative cultivation of generations. On the occasion of 50th anniversary, we pay great gratitude to builders who contributed to setup, development and soaring of the institute. Honor goes by, and we still have a long way to go. In the new century, we will advance hand in hand with the times and build a better future with the guidance of WANG Zhong Cheng and direction of scientific thought of development. 2010-3-13

content of chapters in this album
1. Introduction
2. In a flash—development track
With care from leaders of every level, all previous party committee and management of the institute, we started from scratch and widened our visional horizon.
3. Discipline construction and brand building Handed from previous director ZHAO Yi Cheng, the institute continues to develop and soar. The strategy of “unfolding research, carrying out medical treatment and training professional personnel” has been realized.
4. Academic exchanges & significance achievements It is one of the key accesses of information society to communicate, to acquire knowledge and to raise quality. We have conducted hundreds of various seminars at home and at abroad on neurosurgery, and thus contributed to promote and boost related cause of our country. WANG Zhong Cheng is writing “To develop neurosurgery cause”.
5. Salutary influence of education & solicitude from leaders Every step of growth is closely related to the care and support from leaders of all level, and thus is achieved the accomplishments of nowadays.
6. Cultural construction and features revelation Culture is the drainless power to advance social development. With the leadership of the party committee, we carry out colorful recreational and sports activities, by which the cohesion of the staff is enhanced.