Zhong Nanshan's father, Zhong Fanshi, is also a medical worker and a very famous pediatrician.

Zhong devoted his life to the field of pediatric medicine. At the age of seventy, he suffered from eye diseases, but he still cared about his medical career and continued to write. He has compiled a pediatric medical book "Differential Diagnosis of Pediatric Diseases" with more than 400,000 words, which has made important contributions to the development of pediatric medicine in China.