Quality over quantity: a necessary path for clinical research transformation in China

Editorial: Since the Chinese economic reform in 1978, its medical field has made remarkable progress in the past 40 years. In most medical fields, China’s diagnosis and treatment methods are comparable to the international high standards. In recent years, with the continuous expansion of the medical research team and the improvement of laboratory research equipment and methods, China has achieved some influential and internationally recognized research outcomes. However, overall, China still lags behind developed countries in terms of high-level original medical research, especially in high evidence-based medical research (1).