我国烧伤医学已经走过了60余年的发展历程。老一代医务工作者在条件差、困难多的年代里，抱着强烈的时代责任感和对烧伤事业的满腔热忱，付出了超乎常人的努力，靠着勤劳的双手、燃烧的激情，取得了举世瞩目的原创性成果，为烧伤医学贡献了宝贵财富。本文以公开发表的资料为蓝本，简述了2000年以前，尤其是20世纪50至90年代我国在烧伤临床治疗和基础研究方面所取得的成就，按事件发生的先后时间轴进行概述，其主旨在于激励新时代烧伤人抓住机遇，发愤图强，利用好现代的良好资源，认真学习基础理论，重视临床实践，借鉴国外经验，弘扬烧伤前辈们高尚的医德医风、顽强的工作拼劲和无私的奉献精神，为民族复兴和中国烧伤事业更强大贡献自己的力量。

Burn medicine in China has developed for more than 60 years. In the times of poor conditions and many difficulties, the old generation of medical workers, with a strong sense of responsibility and enthusiasm for the burn cause, made extraordinary efforts, and achieved world-wide success with their hard-working hands and burning passion. The striking original results have contributed valuable wealth to burn medicine. Based on the published data, this paper briefly describes the achievements made in burn clinical treatment and basic research in my country before 2000, especially from the 1950s to the 1990s, briefly summarizes the narration according to the time axis of the occurrence of events. Its purpose is to inspire medical workers in the new era to seize opportunities, strive for strength, and make good use of modern good resources, earnestly study basic theories, attach importance to clinical practice, learn from foreign experience, and inspire us to carry forward the noble medical ethics, tenacious work and selfless dedication of our predecessors, and contribute to the national rejuvenation and the stronger burn cause in China.