Emergency medicine in China: A review of the history of progress and current and future challenges after 40 years of reform.

The year 2018 marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform, tremendous change had taken place in Chinese society. Looking back 40 years from 1978 to 2018, China's medical reform had made remarkable achievements, but still faces many challenges. These papers review the historical progress of emergency medicine, the current and the future challenges in China's medical reform process.