Orthopaedics Center of Kunming General Hospital of Chengdu Military Region established the Orthopaedics Hospital affiliated to Kunming General Hospital in 2006, and was approved to set up the Traumatic Orthopaedics Institute of Chengdu Military Region in early 2007. In September 2008, it was approved to set up the postdoctoral research center of Kunming General Hospital of Chengdu Military Region. There are 450 beds and nearly 200 faculty members, including professors, chief physicians 10, deputy chief physicians, associate professors 15, 8 postdoctoral doctors, 20 doctors, 4 masters 14, 7 tutors for master students, 4 tutors for doctoral students 1 0. The department has medical equipment worth $100000, including C-arm X-ray machine, operating microscope, intervertebral disc endoscope, DTX-200 bone densitometer and arthroscopy. The laboratory includes: clinical laboratory, microsurgical animal laboratory, bone mineral density examination room and reference room. 20 10 was rated as an excellent scientific research unit in the 11th Five-Year Plan.