By March 2023, Academician Zhong Nanshan will be 87 years old.

Zhong Nanshan, male, Han nationality, was born in 1936 10, from Nanjing, Jiangsu, and Xiamen, Fujian. His father Zhong is a pediatrician in China, and his mother Liao Yueqin is one of the founders of Guangdong Cancer Hospital. Respiratory pathologist, director of National Respiratory Disease Clinical Research Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, academician of China Academy of Engineering.

He is also a leading figure in the fight against SARS and COVID-19 in China. He used to be Party Secretary and Dean of Guangzhou Medical College (now Guangzhou Medical University), Dean of the First Affiliated Hospital, President of the Chinese Medical Association, Director of the State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, Head of the Senior Expert Group of the National Health Commission, and a national health science expert.

Zhong Nanshan's scientific achievements:

Academician Zhong Nanshan has been engaged in medical treatment, teaching and scientific research of respiratory medicine for a long time. Focus on the standardized diagnosis and treatment of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, respiratory failure and common respiratory diseases, difficult diseases and rare diseases, and the treatment of critical respiratory diseases. And confirmed the existence of occult asthma for the first time.

By September of 20 10, Zhong Nanshan had published more than 50 papers10 in domestic and foreign medical journals, among which the papers published abroad were cited by SCI for 8 1 time, and he was the editor-in-chief of English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Medicine, Asthma, Progress of Modern Respiratory Diseases, Interpretation of Prevention and Treatment of Acute Infectious atypical Pneumonia and Infectious Diseases.