Chinese shoulder and elbow surgery started late and lagged behind the developed countries.However,it began to thrive and grow in the last decade.rnIn fact,the predecessors of Chinese orthopaedic surgeons,including Profs.Feng Chuanhan,Guo Shiba,and Huang Gongyi,published Shoulder Surgery,which systematically stated the professional acknowledgment of shoulder surgery in China.1 The communication with foreign counterparts has intensified nowadays as increasing numbers of doctors have devoted themselves to shoulder surgery.They have accepted foreign advanced ideas and taught them in China,which has been helpful to improve the technical level of shoulder surgery.