Zhou Qinghua

- Research areas: Surgery for locally advanced lung cancer, molecular subtyping of lung cancer, early screening and metastasis mechanisms of lung cancer; personalized multidisciplinary comprehensive treatment of lung cancer; thoracic tumor reconstructive surgery; molecular mechanisms of lung cancer invasion and metastasis.

- Core technologies: Thoracic tumor reconstruction surgery, extended resection of locally advanced lung cancer invading major blood vessels; founder of "Thoracic Tumor Reconstruction Surgery" (first proposed internationally), pioneered more than 90 surgical techniques for reconstructing locally advanced lung cancer/tracheal tumors/mediastinal tumors; "Individualized multidisciplinary comprehensive treatment of lung cancer" (first proposed internationally in 1989).

- Areas of expertise: Locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer, complex mediastinal tumors, tracheal tumors.

- Academic Value: Chief Scientist of the National Key Research and Development Program for Early Lung Cancer Diagnosis; founder of the theory of thoracic tumor reconstructive surgery; and developer of multiple lung cancer diagnosis and treatment guidelines. Member of the State Council Academic Degrees Review Expert Group; expert of the Lung Cancer Screening Expert Committee of the International Society for Lung Cancer; editor-in-chief of *Thoracic Cancer* and *Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer*; leader/participant in the drafting of more than 30 international and domestic lung cancer guidelines/consensus documents.