On the morning of December 16, 2017, academicians Arthur S. Slutsky and Zhang Haibo from Canadian Academy of Health Sciences paid a visit to the SKLRD and gave wonderful academic lectures. The meeting was presided over by the academic leader of intensive care medicine of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University. The meeting was attended by over 120 people including experts such as Professor Li Yimin, PI of the SKLRD and Chen Rongchang, the president of Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Health, clinical doctors of intensive care medicine departments inside and beyond the hospital and researchers and graduates of the SKLRD.