Guangdong General Hospital set up burn treatment specialist group in 1960. It was one of the hospitals which set up the department of burns in the early time. In the past 58 years, Department of Burn Surgery in Guangdong General Hospital has treated more than 20 000 burn patients, with overall success rate of 98.58%, standing at the global frontier. In the past 58 years, under the leadership of professors Chen Huade and Lai Wen and through the unremitting efforts of the colleagues, our department has developed from a burn treatment specialist group to the key clinical specialty of Guangdong province, sample unit of hundred level of laminar burn care ward, unit of chairman of the second and third committees of the Burn Branch of Guangdong Medical Association, the base of the National Good Clinical Practice, and has provided high level of burn treatment service for people in South China.
广东省人民医院于1960年成立烧伤治疗专业组，是我国较早建立烧伤科的医院之一。58年来，广东省人民医院烧伤外科共救治烧伤患者2万余例，总体救治成功率98.58%，位居国内外前列。58年来在陈华德教授、赖文教授等学科带头人的带领下，经过全体同仁的不懈努力，笔者科室由一个单纯的烧伤治疗专业组，发展成为广东省临床重点专科、百级层流烧伤病房样板单位、广东省医学会烧伤学分会第二届和第三届专业委员会主任委员单位、国家药物临床试验基地，并为华南地区广大人民提供高质量的烧伤救治服务。.
Keywords: Burns; Retrospect and prospect.