Greetings to all colleagues involved in the editorial and publishing groups of the Journal of Thoracic Disease. Congratulations on the exponential growth of JTD readers. It is your skill and hard work that has brought off the success. Thanks to my friend and editor-in-chief professor Zhong Nanshan, a truly great physician and editor. I have had the honor to work with him for 23 years. The International COPD Coalition is grateful to all of you for your support of respiratory patients through the ICC column. We are the largest worldwide organization of COPD patients. And as your partner, we promote JTD and the JTD column through Email blasts that reach 6000 respiratory physicians and patient group leaders worldwide. I know that JTD will continue its growth because of the valuable information that you provide and I know that you will enjoy your well-deserved celebration today. Congratulations and thank you!

Journal of Thoracic Disease has been so successful and so widely read and you will not believe how many surgeons are met in my career in the past few years that really congratulate on the success and the expertise of these journal producers. So we are very happy of the family of JTD and we hope to continue this successful road and we hope more and more readers to join and to share our happiness of this achievement.

I found it very enjoyable experience working with extremely professional, hardworking and dedicated staff committed to making the best educational value, making worthiness in terms of high technical representation videos and other novel transmission of information. And certainly it improves the experience for the reader and viewer.

CDT offers a unique set of added values that render it a very promising journal in this field. It is offering a unique forum of exchange of science in its exemplary model that not only attends to the traditional role of a medical sciences journal, but also embraces modern tools such as social medial.

I am absolutely excited about this journal. It’s a wonderful platform for thoracic surgeons to show the most complex researches and the most complex studies and development in the last year. So I wish all the best to this fantastic journal.

The international reach of the journal is reflected in the composition of the editorial board and global collaboration is an explicit goal of the journal.