Professor Ji Xiaocheng, a member of the 8th and 9th editorial boards of Chinese Journal of Pediatrics, graduated from the Medical Department of Peking University School of Medicine (now Peking University School of Medicine) in 1948. In 1955, he went to Leningrad College of Pediatrics in the Soviet Union to study abroad and obtained an associate doctorate degree. In 1961, he was transferred to the Department of Pediatrics of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and was promoted to a professor in 1985. He successively served as deputy director and director of pediatrics. He has served as a member of the editorial board of Chinese Journal of Pediatrics, and has also served as the editorial board of many journals of Chinese Medical Association for a long time. Professor Ji Xiaocheng is a pioneer in neonatology in China. In 1980, he was appointed by Union Medical College Hospital to go to the University of California, San Diego to study the neonatal intensive care and perinatal medicine technology that was still blank in China at that time. After returning to China, he took the lead in establishing a neonatal intensive care unit in Peking Union Medical College Hospital, starting with a ventilator and three baby incubators, which laid the foundation for the development of neonatal intensive care medicine.